Overview
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Learn how to run advanced simulations to measure the stress and displacement of metal designs, using SOLIDWORKS Premium 2018.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Exercise files
- Breaking up the geometry model
- Meshing the half model
- New loads and boundary conditions
- Analysis and comparison with the full model
- Using the geometry fixup tool
- Remeshing the simplified geometry
- Defining new loads and boundary conditions
- Running the analysis and comparing results with the original Conrod model
- Description of the 3-2-1 method
- Geometry splitting to accommodate the 3-2-1- method
- Remeshing the revised model
- Applying the specific loads and boundary conditions for the 3-2-1 method
- Running the analysis and comparing the results at the big and region of the Conrod
- An overview of the plane strain method
- Set up and meshing for plane strain analysis
- Loads and boundary conditions for plane strain analysis
- Running a plane strain analysis and interpreting results
- Wrap up
- Next steps
