Recent content by Jesper Hellmann

%%%Contact stress clear all clc close all graphics_toolkit('gnuplot') %%%Material parameters %Youngs Modulus E_1=2.62*10^9 E_2=213*10^9 %Poisson ratio nu_1=0.34 nu_2=0.3%Cylinder radius %OBS (R_2= infity for a flat plate) %OBS (a cylindrical groove is a cylinder with a negative radius)...

Hi All I am trying to validate a nylon (PA6 Guss) clamp which has a load of 166kN on a steel tube. I am only interested in validating the clamp. My analytical (MatLab-Octave) calculations give me a peak Von Misses stress of about 145MPa When comparing to FEM in ANSYS I only get about 30MPa Can...