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Figure 1, aove, illutrate a plate model that can e olved with implified geometr along
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poile model and correponding upport that can e ued to olve thi prolem? The
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hell and olid. The premie for modeling mmetr i that the geometr, material and
loading condition are identical on either ide of the reflection plane. mmetr oundar
condition inherentl provide partial retraint againt rigid od deformation and do not
introduceanartificialingularit,acanoftenoccurwithfixedupportoundarcondition. Ma16,2017
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mixture of diplacement and rotation contraint are applied on the mmetr plane of the
model. With antimmetric oundar condition, the oppoite degree of freedom from the
mmetr degree of freedom are contrained. For olid element, the two in-plane
diplacementarecontrained,whileforeamandhellanaddedrotationalcontrainti
appliedaouttheaxinormaltothemmetrplane.Hence,whencomparingthemmetric
and anti-mmetric oundarie, the comination of oth mmetric and anti-mmetric

conditionreultinfullfixitofallactivedegreeoffreedomonthemmetrplane.(Thi
waanimportantfacttoknowwhenuingverion4ofANYinthelate1980ince,the
eaietwatocompletelfixaurfacewaapplingothupportacumulativeoundar
condition.)Figure5illutratetheamereponewiththefullv.antimmetricloadingon
theampleeamelementmodel.Onelimitationthathouldenotedithat,whileammetr
oundar condition i applicale for oth mall and large deflection imulation, the
antimmetricaumptionilimitedtomalldeformation.Ifthediplacementorrotation
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trictl antimmetric load themelve are not that common, ut anti-mmetric model / FA(/log?tid=65)
canaloeuedtoolveammetricloading.Forexample,ifthemodelrequireloadingthat
onloccurononeideofthemmetrplanethenneitherthemmetricorantimmetric
load themelve are applicale. However, when one ue uperpoition, one can
replicate the ammetric repone. The mmetr oundar create the equivalent of the
ame load on each ide of the mmetr plane, while the antimmetric load repreent an
equalutoppoiteloadontheoppoiteideoftheantimmetricplane.Thu,analzing50%
offorceappliedtoattheamelocationtooththemmetricandantimmetricloadcae
independentl and then adding the reult together via potproceing produce a
ammetric loading repone. For the imple eam example, the ammetric cae i
imulateduing50%oftheforceloadingolvedfirtwiththemmetricoundarcondition
and again with the antimmetric oundar condition. A load comination procedure of
uperpoitionithenuedtoimulatethefullammetricolution.Fortheloadedideofthe
eam,thetworeultetareviewedimpladdingthetwoanaletogether,whilefor
theunloadedideoftheeamthemmetricandantimmetricolutionareutractedfrom

one another. Figure 6 illutrate the more intereting comined olution which matche the
full ammetric eam imulation. Thi method of uperpoition i onl valid for linear
prolem.

Figure6-AmmetricFullv.uperpoitionof1/2eamModelxample

o ack to our original quetion. Figure 7 illutrate how a 1/8 model with a mixture of
o ack to our original quetion. Figure 7 illutrate how a 1/8 model with a mixture of
mmetricandanti-mmetricoundariecaneuedtoolvethequiz.

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