CREATING MESH WITH VARIABLE THICKNESS

CREATING MESH WITH VARIABLE THICKNESS

OBJECTIVE:

To create a mesh for a given component and assign variable thickness across the component.

PROCEDURE:

Import Component: Initially component imported using option Import > Model.

Split Component: This component is large in size. To make this easier to mesh, the component is spat into 4 parts.

• Create node at the center of the component.
• Surface edit > Trim with surf/Plane > (with plane) > Select surface and node base points.

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• Create new components in entity editor. And Organize each component in separate files.

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Create Mid-Surface:

• The thickness of the plate measured using option Distance and point in middle for those points is created.
• The surface on one side was offset for a particular distance and translate middle point.

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Create Mesh:

• For this mid-surface auto, mesh is created.
• This is continuously re-mesh until the desired mesh is created.

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Elements Connected:

• Meshes on 4 components combine to form a single connected element.

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Create Property:

• The new property is created with variable thickness in the entity editor.
• Thickness values entered with respect to the thickness of the components.
• New components created in entity editor assigned with respective properties of the components.

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• Each property assigned to respective elements.

Quality check:

• The mesh is check for given quality parameters and ensures each element satisfies quality condition.

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Final Images:

RESULT:

Here mid-surface and mesh are created for given component and thickness for each element is assigned.