structure analysis

[Elena.ehy]

Hello everyone, I am practicing to do analysis of loads of mechanical structures, I found myself in front of this type and I do not know how to proceed. is the bearing structure of a conveyor.
are square-section tubular, 3 of short reinforcement between “foot” and “foot”, 4 long welded always on the same height. vertically the feet are also their square-section tubular fixed to a sheet through screws.
the structure serves to hold a sheet bent from both sides, I do not know how to proceed to make the sizing
Thank you all for your attention

 

[Mattymecc]

try to make a model using beam elements on rhinestone7 or similar and see what comes out or do some calculation of maximum by hand, I don't think anything impossible. . .
1) vertical elements size them to normal effort
2) the conveyor belt between two successive vertical elements can schematize it as a supported beam

 

[meccanicamg]

is a beam structure. you can use lesm that is free and imposed constraints, loads and make you solve. internal actions in sections and find tensions.
otherwise if you use solidworks you have to make a static fem....but you should have a term of hand comparison or similar.

 

[Elena.ehy]

try to make a model using beam elements on rhinestone7 or similar and see what comes out or do some calculation of maximum by hand, I don't think anything impossible. . .
1) vertical elements size them to normal effort
2) the conveyor belt between two successive vertical elements can schematize it as a supported beam

Thank you very much

 

[Elena.ehy]

is a beam structure. you can use lesm that is free and imposed constraints, loads and make you solve. internal actions in sections and find tensions.
otherwise if you use solidworks you have to make a static fem....but you should have a term of hand comparison or similar.

Never tried lesm, I'll try I'm curious, thank you very much

 

[meccanicamg]

I usually used ftool that makes beams in 2d but lately I have to deal with structures assimilable to 3d and to calculate the binding reactions use lesm.
once set, you can vary the loads and reactions but apparently not the coordinates of the points. As he works with matlab programming, he uses matrices. the file you use for your structure you can edit it comfortably and intuitively with note block and change what you need and save it. open it again with lesm and you are updated.