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5.4 Application

5.4.1 Stress in Shelf Angle Bracket

A shelf angle bracket with the thickness of 1 mm, as
shown in the figure, is made from a material that has the Young’s
modulus of 210 N m 11 2 and Poisson’s ratio of 0.3. The vertical
side of the bracket is fixed on a wall by screws at the three holes as
shown in the figure. The horizontal side supports a vertical load of
100 N. We will use ANSYS through the Workbench to solve for
the deformed shape and the stress that occurs in the bracket.

Since the bracket is made from a thin metal sheet, we
use the plate bending elements to model it. We first import the
CAD model and discretize it into many small elements as shown in
the figure.