Shear Center Calculation

protontim

Can anyone suggest a method for calculating shear center for an arbitrary section? I have Solidworks, but that only gives the section centroid (as far as I can tell). There are some $350+ tools to do the calculation, but I was hoping for something free or under $100. Is there a "simple" way to compute shear center using Mecway?

disla

You could give it a try to this. It's free. Registration required. It's in French.

https://www.cticm.com/logiciel/propsection/

I haven't test this other but was recomended in the calculix forum some time ago.

https://sectionproperties.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user_guide.html

☑ Shear section properties

☑ Shear centre (elastic method)

☑ Shear centre (Trefftz’s method)

☑ Shear areas (global axis)

☑ Shear areas (principal axis)

Among many other properties

Mishal

I have used the "sectionproperties" package. It works very well!!! Highly recommended, it can even read Rhino files if I remember correctly.

protontim

Thank you both for the suggestions. I will fire up python and check out the sectionproperties package and see how it does with the dxf import. Thanks again.