3. Modeling A#

3.1. Characteristics of modeling#

The elbow is meshed into shells (mesh QUAD4, modeling DKT). All the parts of the right are meshed into pipe elements (mesh SEG3, modeling TUYAU).

3.2. Characteristics of the mesh#

320 QUAD4 stitches

8 stitches SEG3

32 SEG2 stitches (shell edges).

3.3. Tested values#

Load case

Point movement \(D\)

Reference

Aster

% diff

\(\mathrm{Mz}=17000\mathrm{Nm}\)

\(\mathrm{DY}(\mathrm{mm})\)

0.02

0.01941

3.0

\(\mathrm{My}=17000\mathrm{Nm}\)

\(\mathrm{DZ}(\mathrm{mm})\)

—0.015657

—0.0157

0.3