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2019-02-28

Deviations of Deformations Between LC and CO

When displaying the deformations of LC1, the maximum is 10 mm. If you look at the deformations of CO1 (defined as 1.0*LC1), there is a larger deformation as a result. How could that be?


Answer:

By default, load combinations are calculated according to the second-order analysis, and load cases according to the linear static analysis. It is possible that the stiffness is also reduced by a standard-dependent partial safety factor when calculating according to the second-order analysis, which has a corresponding effect on the deformations.

In order to obtain the same results in the load case and in the load combination, it would be necessary to regulate the consideration of the stiffness factors uniformly for this case, among other things (see the image).


Author

Mr. Baumgärtel provides technical support for Dlubal Software customers.

References
  1. Dlubal Software. (2018). Manual RFEM. Tiefenbach.
  2. Dlubal Software. (2016). Manual RSTAB. Tiefenbach: Dlubal Software.