Abaqus Tutorial: Lower Shell of a Game Controller

A thin-walled plastic part modelled with shells and beams in Abaqus/CAE (practical L05). The tutorial covers shell offsets, beam ribs, joining shells to solids, loading through a reference point with a distributing coupling, and symmetric and antisymmetric half models.

Tutorial Parts

Part 1

Lower Shell of a Game Controller

S4R shells with offsets, B31 rib beams, the shell-to-solid tie trap, a three-point bend through a coupled RP, and four load cases.

Offline version

All parts as HTML pages in one zip file, to read without internet or to upload to Moodle.

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