Validate Solid

Microstruct.Prime is Validated against the popular engineering programs STAAD Pro and SAP2000.
For plate only.

Solid under 0.25psi uniformly distribued pressure on the whole area

This is 20″x20″X0.1″(thick) steel plate with fixed supported boundary conditions. It has different level of meshing to test the convergence using Microstruct.Prime, STAAD Pro and SAP2000. The plate is subjected to 0.25psi uniformly distribued pressure on the whole area. The result is listed below.

E = 30000 ksi
Position Ratio = 0.3

Diagram (2x2 mesh) Software Deflection Error
Validate_solid_4x4_UDL Microstruct.Prime 0.023in 25%
STAAD Pro 0.021in 14%
SAP2000 ASAP ASAP
CLOSE FORM 0.01840in 0.0%
Diagram (4x4 mesh) Software Deflection Error
Validate_solid_8x8_UDL Microstruct.Prime 0.021in 14%
STAAD Pro 0.017in 8%
SAP2000 ASAP ASAP
CLOSE FORM 0.01840in 0.0%
Diagram (8x8 mesh) Software Deflection Error
Validate_solid_16x16_UDL Microstruct.Prime 0.019in 3%
STAAD Pro 0.018in 2%
SAP2000 ASAP ASAP
CLOSE FORM 0.01840in 0.0%
Diagram (16x16 mesh) Software Deflection Error
Validate_solid_32x32_UDL Microstruct.Prime 0.019in 3%
STAAD Pro 0.018in 2%
SAP2000 ASAP ASAP
CLOSE FORM 0.01840in 0.0%

Solid under 0.1kip concentrate force at the center of the plate

This is 20″x20″X0.1″(thick) steel plate with fixed supported boundary conditions. It has different level of meshing to test the convergence using Microstruct.Prime, STAAD Pro and SAP2000. The plate is subjected to 0.1kip concentrated force at the center of the plate. The result is listed below.

E = 30000 ksi
Position Ratio = 0.3

Diagram (2x2 mesh) Software Deflection Error
Validate_solid_4x4_UDL Microstruct.Prime 0.091in 12%
STAAD Pro 0.085in 4%
SAP2000 0.091in 12%
CLOSE FORM 0.08154in 0.0%
Diagram (4x4 mesh) Software Deflection Error
Validate_solid_8x8_UDL Microstruct.Prime 0.090in 10%
STAAD Pro 0.077in -6%
SAP2000 0.093in 14%
CLOSE FORM 0.08154in 0.0%
Diagram (8x8 mesh) Software Deflection Error
Validate_solid_16x16_UDL Microstruct.Prime 0.085in 4%
STAAD Pro 0.080in -2%
SAP2000 0.086in 5%
CLOSE FORM 0.08154in 0.0%
Diagram (16x16 mesh) Software Deflection Error
Validate_solid_32x32_UDL Microstruct.Prime 0.083in 2%
STAAD Pro 0.081in -1%
SAP2000 0.083in 2%
CLOSE FORM 0.08154in 0.0%

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