Linear Static Benchmarks - Volume 2

This report contains a range of linear static benchmark tests covering most types of behaviour encountered in structural analysis.

Contents 

Introduction

Set 1 - Two-Dimensional Membranes

• test 1: Tapered Membrane - Edge Load
  
• test 2: Tapered Membrane - Inertia  Loading
  
• test 3: Tapered Membrane - Edge Shear
  
• test 4: Tapeted Membrane - Gravity Load
• test 5: Circular Membrane - Edge Pressure
• test 6: Circular Membranes - Point Load
• test 7: Circular Membrane - Parabolic Temperature Distribution
• test 8: Sheer Diffusion
• test 9: Elliptic Membrane

Set 2 - Two Dimensional Plate Bending

• test 10: Tapered Plate - Edge Shear
  
• test 11: Tapered Plate - Gravity Load
• test 12: Elliptical Plate - Normal Pressure
• test 13: Skew Plate - Normal Pressure

Set 3 -  Axisymmetric Solids

• test 14: Tapered Thick Shell - Pressure Load
  
• test 15: Tapered Thick  Shell -  Self Weight
  
• test 16: Cylinder/Taper/Sphere - Temperature Loading

Set 4 - General Thin Shells

• test 17: Hemisphere under External Pressure
  
• test 18: Hemisphere with Point Loadings
  
• test 19:  Cylindrical Shell -Edge Moment
  
• test 20: Cylindrical Shell - Pressure Load
  
• test 21: Cylindrical  Shell with Distorted Mesh - Edge Moment
  
• test 22: Cylindrical Shell with Distorted Mesh - Pressure Load
  
• test 23: 
  
• test 24:  Catenoidal Shell - Pressure
  
• test 25: Catenoidal Shell - Inextensional Bending
  
• test 26: Catenoidal Shell Distortion Mesh - Inextensional Bending
  
• test 27:  Cylinder/Sphere - Internal Pressure
  
• test 28: Circular Parabaloid - Self Weight

Set 5 -  Folded Plates

• test 29: Z-Selection Cantilever -Torsion Bending
  
• test 30: Z-Selection Cantilever -  Bending

Set 6 - Axisymmetric Shells

• test 31: Axisymmetric Hyperbolic Shell - Edge Loading
  
• test 32: Axisymmetric Hyperbolic Shell - Pressure Load
  
• test 33: Axisymmetric Hyperbolic Shell - Harmonic Edge Load
  
• test 34: Axisymmetric Catenoidal Shell -  Pressure Load
  
• test 35: Axisymmetric Cylindrical Shell - Transverse Shear
  
• test 36: Axisymmetric Cylindrical Shell - Self Weight
  
• test 37: Axisymmetric Stiffened Cylinder - Pressure Load
  
• test 38: Cylinder/Sphere Varying Thickness - Pressure Load
  
• test 39: Cylinder/Sphere Constant Thickness -Pressure Load
  
• test 40: Axisymmetric Shell - Pressure Load
  
• test 41: Axisymmetric Branched Shell Pressure Load
• test 42: Solid Element Thick Plate - Surface Pressure
• test 43: Solid Element Cylinder/Taper/Sphere - Temperature Load