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I am having some problems understanding how to apply a distributed load to a cylinder due to it being filled with water. Attached is an image of the cylinder (placed horizontally). The cylinder is symmetric about the y axis. Water is to be filled from the left through the 1" hole. The cylinder is part of a closed-looped system which means that the cylinder will fill all the voids except the ones on the ends of the cylinder. I modeled the water using the combine/subtract feature so that I could find what the volume of the geometry is. To keep the model simple, I left out the holes in the plates. I am using SolidWorks 2012 to do this.
The cylinder is fixed at both ends. The loading is due to the weight of the water and the weight of the cylinder. I applied a stainless steel 304 material to the cylinder. The external loads are gravity and a remote load for the water.
Procedure:
Here is where I'm not sure I did things right. For a remote load I selected the inside surface of the cylinder (the inside wall) in the 4 regions. The load type is direct transfer. My y direction force component is 1496.85 N which is the weight of the water. Note: The dimensions of the cylinder is in English units. I made a spreadsheet to convert the units to SI so that I could figure out the volume and thus the mass which I used to calculate the force.
I meshed the cylinder and ran the simulation.
I would like to know if my procedure for the applying the water load is correct.
The cylinder is fixed at both ends. The loading is due to the weight of the water and the weight of the cylinder. I applied a stainless steel 304 material to the cylinder. The external loads are gravity and a remote load for the water.
Procedure:
Here is where I'm not sure I did things right. For a remote load I selected the inside surface of the cylinder (the inside wall) in the 4 regions. The load type is direct transfer. My y direction force component is 1496.85 N which is the weight of the water. Note: The dimensions of the cylinder is in English units. I made a spreadsheet to convert the units to SI so that I could figure out the volume and thus the mass which I used to calculate the force.
I meshed the cylinder and ran the simulation.
I would like to know if my procedure for the applying the water load is correct.
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