Large-Scale Structural Analysis of the Large Coil Test Facility

摘要

NASTRAN automatic substructuring was chosen as the finite element method to be used for the Large Coil Test Facility (LCFT) test stand design analysis. This paper describes some of the practical aspects of the test stand structural analysis. The LCTF test stand analysis involves extensive consideration of the usefulness of substructuring, the effectiveness of vendor-supplied and locally developed pre- and postprocessing finite element software, and the efficient utilization of limited computing resources. These considerations plus the analysis problems encountered during the LCTF test stand large-scale analysis are addressed in this paper. (ERA citation 09:021537)