Automated SCF Extraction in SACS

Hi Swee Yong,

You can watch the video on Youtube using this link: (1) Speed Up Non-Tubular Fatigue Design with Automatic SCF Extraction - YouTube

Regards,
Nur

Thanks Nurfaiza. This youtube video is for the non-tubular connection. I am looking for the automatic SCF extraction for tubular to tubular joint. Please share if you know. Thanks. 

Apologies for the mistake, but we don't have videos for that topic. However, you may refer to SACS Fatigue Manual Section 3.2.1.1 to get more details on numerous methods to calculate stress concentration factors for tubular connections in SACS. These options can be found in columns 78-80 on the FTOPT input line.

For tubular joints, the following SCF options are available:



I hope this helps!

Regards,
Nur

Hi Nurfaiza,

SACS Fatigue Manual Section 3.2.1.1 talk about parametric equation of SCF for beam-column tubular member to tubular connection. I would like to know if SACS can extract the SCF from a tubular to tubular mesh joint of shell element using joint mesher. Can you help?

Hi Swee,

We have added the capability in joint mesher since SACS 16.1 to extract SCF from shell elements (Quad9 shells specifically) based on DNV RP-C203 SCF extraction methodology. You may want to use the latest release (SACS 2023 Minor 1) as you can also visualize the SCF in Precede.

Regards,
Nur

Hi Nur,

Thanks for your reply. To be able to understand in detail of the features of joint mesher, could you provide a short presentation on this feature? At the same time, you can answer any question that we have. Please let me know your availability tomorrow and Monday (2nd Oct), so that I can send a meeting invitation through Microsoft Teams.

Thanks,

Swee  

Hi Nur,

Thanks for your reply. To be able to understand in detail of the features of joint mesher, could you provide a short presentation on this feature? At the same time, you can answer any question that we have. Please let me know your availability tomorrow and Monday (2nd Oct), so that I can send a meeting invitation through Microsoft Teams.

Thanks,

Swee  

Hi Nur,

Is it possible to arrange a MS team call?

In addition, any reference/manual/example of the joint mesher and SCF extraction of a tubular joint that you can share?

Many Thanks, 

Hi Swee,

To ensure a timely response from an available Technical Support resource in a situation where you need to have a phone conversation or for something urgent, it is best to submit a Case via the Support Portal.

I went ahead and opened Case #CS0091472 on your behalf. Someone will be in contact with you shortly.

Note also that Support can provide answers to specific questions or issues that you may have but we generally do not provide training or example datasets.