Set up a Structural Buckling analysis

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Workflow: Run a Structural Buckling analysis

1. Access the Simulation workspace.
2. Click (Setup tab > Study panel > New Simulation Study) to open the New Study dialog.
3. Select Structural Buckling.
4. Optionally, use the Simplify contextual environment to make simulation-specific changes to the model, preserving the production model:
   • Remove unnecessary features that only complicate the analysis and do not provide useful information. See Model Simplification (Defeaturing).
   • Split faces to confine loads or constraints to a only portion of a larger face.
5. Assign proper Materials.
   • More information about materials can be found on the Analysis General materials page.
6. Define the Constraints.
   • More information about constraints can be found on the Analysis General Constraints page.
   • Constraints affect the k constant in the Euler Critical Load equation.
7. Define Loads.
   • More information can be found on the Analysis General Loads page.
   • Applied loads in a buckling analysis should result in compression of the model to avoid negative buckling load factors.
8. Define Contacts.
   • More information can be found on the Analysis Genereral Contacts page.
9. Click (Results tab > Manage panel > Settings) and define the Mesh and Adaptive Mesh Refinement settings.
   • The Settings dialog page has more information about analysis settings.
   • More details about Mesh settings can be found on the Meshes section.
10. Solve the Analysis.
11. Review Results.
    • More information about the results can be found on the Structural buckling results page.