Pre-Analysis & Start-Up

Pre-Analysis

You are told that experiments have been performed that confirm that the tip deflection under the load is approximately

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When the beam is long and slender, transverse displacement due to bending is the dominant contribution to the tip deflection and the pure bending stress component is the dominant normal stress component acting at the wall fixture:

What to Expect

Performing the three-dimensional analysis results in tip deflections in agreement with theory including the shear deformation but does not render normal stresses at the wall given by simple beam theory.  Below are the hand calculations for comparison in the Verification and Validation  section of the tutorial:

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