SS-V: 1110 Notched Plate

Test No. VS12 Find Sx stress in the notch and top face of a notched plate.

Definition



Figure 1.

The left face is fixed. The load is a moment of 500 lbf-in applied to right face.

The units are IPS.

The model parameters are:
Parameters
Value
Length
16 in
Width
5 in
Plate thickness (r)
0.5 in
The material properties are:
Properties
Value
Modulus of Elasticity
30e+6
Poisson's Ratio
0.3

Results

The following table summarizes the stress results.
  Reference Solution SimSolid % Difference
SXX Stress in Notch [psi] 7.3100E+02 7.6890E+02 5.18%
SXX Stress along top face [psi] 2.4000E+02 2.4001E+02 0.00%
1 LM-ST-1 Learning Module Static Structural Analysis, Dr. Jack Xin, Dr. Liang-Wu Cai, www.femlearning.org, 2010