Patran Tip – Student Tutorials

Question: Where can I find Patran tutorials for students?

Answer: You can find 30 Patran tutotrials on our YouTube channel. Here is a list. Tutorials 6-30 are referenced from page 305 of this document Patran 2012.2 Reference Manual Part 6: Results Post Processing.

1. Installation of the Student Edition
2. Patran Home Tab Tools Overview
3. Bending Stresses in a Loaded Beam
4. Bending Stresses, Displacements and Free Body Diagram of a Frame
5. Total Response of an Undamped System
6. Linear Statics, Rigid Frame Analysis
7. Linear Statics, Cross-Ply Composite Plate Analysis
8. Linear Statics, Principal Stress and Stress Transformation
9. Linear Statics, Plane Strain with 2D Solids
10. Linear Statics, 2D Shells in Spherical Coordinates
11. Linear Statics, 2D Axisymmetric Solids
12. Linear Statics, 3D Solids and Cylindrical Coordinate Frames
13. Linear Statics, Pinned Truss Analysis
14. Nonlinear Statics, Large Deflection Effects
15. Linear Statics, Thermal Stress with Solids
16. Superposition of Linear Static Results
17. Normal Modes, Point Masses and Linear Springs
18. Normal Modes, Shells and Cylindrical Coordinates
19. Normal Modes, Pshells and Cylindrical Coordinates
20. Buckling, shells and Cylindrical Coordinates
21. Buckling, Flat Plates
22. Direct Transient Response, Solids and Cylindrical Coordinates
23. Modal Transient Response with Guyan Reduction and Bars, Springs, Concentrated Masses and Rigid Body Elements
24. Direct Nonlinear Transient, Stress Wave Propagation with 1D Elements
25. Direct Frequency Response, Eccentric Rotating Mass with Variable Damping
26. Modal Frequency Response, Enforced Base Motion with Modal Damping and Rigid Body Elements
27. Complex Modes, Direct Method
28. Transient Heat Transfer with Phase Change
29. Steady State Heat Transfer, 1D Conduction and Convection
30. Freebody Loads, Pinned Truss Analysis

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