The mode shapes that ANSYS 8.1 gives for displacement controlled
buckling appear to be wrong. Is this a known error?


Yes. Defect 25718 (see below) was filed and subsequently corrected
in the daily build of ANSYS 9.0 on August 16th, 2004. A Class 3 Error
report is being generated and will be distributed when complete.

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Defect 25718
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Mode shapes for displacement controlled buckling appear wrong
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Section 7.5.2. "Obtain the Static Solution" in the
ANSYS 8.1 Structural Analysis Guide reads as follows:

You can apply a nonzero constraint in the prestressing pass
as the static load. The eigenvalues found in the buckling
solution will be the load factors applied to these nonzero
constraint values. However, the mode shapes will have a zero
value at these degrees of freedom (and not the nonzero value
specified).

Therefore, the applied Z-direction displacement at the Z=0
location should NOT be given as the mode shape displacement
for the attached input.


FINISH
/CLEAR,START,1
/plopts,info,1

! arg1 = dispacement

!!! arg1=0.01
!!! arg1=0.50
arg1=1.00
!!! arg1=10.0

*if,arg1,eq,0,then
arg1=0.5
*endif

! Units: mm, ton, second, Newton, Mpa, ...

/PREP7
w=100
h=20
t=1
l=200

ET,1,181
R,1,t

MP,EX,1,205000
MP,NUXY,1,0.30
mp,dens,1,7.83e-9

K,1
K,2,w
KGEN,2,1,2,1,,h
l,1,3
l,3,4
l,4,2
KGEN,2,4,4,1,0,0,-l
l,4,5
ADRAG,1,2,3,,,,4

ESIZE,5*t
AMESH,ALL
SAVE
FINISH

/SOLUTION
ANTYPE,STATIC
PSTRESS,ON
outres,all,all

LSEL,S,LOC,Z,-l-0.05,-l+0.05
NSLL,S,1
D,ALL,UZ,0
D,ALL,ROTZ,0
ALLSEL

LSEL,S,LINE,,8
NSLL,S,1
D,ALL,UY,0
ALLSEL

LSEL,S,LINE,,5
LSEL,A,LINE,,10
NSLL,S,1
D,ALL,UX,0
ALLSEL

LSEL,S,LINE,,2
NSLL,S,1
D,ALL,UY,0
ALLSEL

LSEL,S,LINE,,1
LSEL,A,LINE,,3
NSLL,S,1
D,ALL,UX,0
ALLSEL

LSEL,S,LOC,Z,0
NSLL,S,1
D,ALL,UZ,-arg1
ALLSEL

SAVE
SOLVE
save
FINISH

/SOLUTION
ANTYPE,BUCKLE
BUCOPT,LANB,1
MXPAND,1,,,yes

SOLVE
save
FINISH

/post1
SET,,, ,,, ,1
/VIEW,1,1,1,1
/ANG,1
/DSCALE,1,1.0

/title, Note Z displacement at Z=0 location ...

/show,jpeg
plns,u,sum
/show,close
/show,term
/replot
/eof





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