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Practical Finite Element Simulations with SOLIDWORKS 2022

By : Khameel B. Mustapha
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Practical Finite Element Simulations with SOLIDWORKS 2022

By: Khameel B. Mustapha

Overview of this book

SOLIDWORKS is a dominant computer-aided design (CAD) software for the 3D modeling, designing, and analysis of components. This book helps you get to grips with SOLIDWORKS Simulation, which is a remarkable and integral part of SOLIDWORKS predominantly deployed for advanced product performance assessment and virtual prototyping. With this book, you'll take a hands-on approach to learning SOLIDWORKS Simulation with the help of step-by-step guidelines on various aspects of the simulation workflow. You'll begin by learning about the requirements for effective simulation of parts and components, along with the idealization of physical components and their representation with finite element models. As you progress through the book, you'll find exercises at the end of each chapter, and you'll be able to download the geometry models used in all the chapters from GitHub. Finally, you’ll discover how to set up finite element simulations for the static analysis of components under various types of loads, and with different types of materials, from simple isotropic to composite, and different boundary conditions. By the end of this SOLIDWORKS 2022 book, you'll be able to conduct basic and advanced static analyses with SOLIDWORKS Simulation and have practical knowledge of how to best use the family of elements in the SOLIDWORKS Simulation library.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: An Introduction to SOLIDWORKS Simulation
6
Section 2: SOLIDWORKS Simulation with Shell and Solid Elements
10
Section 3: Advanced SOLIDWORKS Simulation with Complex Material and Loading Behavior

Exercises

  1. A variable pitch spring is to be made from a music (ASTM A228) wire with a diameter of 20 mm and other data as shown here:

    Total number of active coils = 10

    Number of inactive coils = 4

    Free length = 500 mm

    Outside diameter = 120 mm

    The spring is ground at the ends. Compute the deflection experienced by the spring when a force of 300 N is applied at its top.

  2. Repeat case study 2 for cases where: (a) the friction coefficient is set to 0.02 by evaluating the effect of the change of the coefficient of friction on the stress values; and (b) the default bonded interaction is retained with no manual definition of the "contact" interaction. How does this affect the stress distribution?