Week 12:Project 2-Meshing of Rear Wheel Holder challenge

OBJECTIVE

To create mesh on the rare wheel holder for vthe given criteria

MID SURFACE

Mid surface is done to reduce the number of elements and simulation time

Mid surface is generated for the component by using auto mid surface as the thickness of the component is not varying

HYPERMESH-->MID SURFACE-->AUTO MIDSURFACE-->SURFACES-->EXTRACT

GEOMETRY CLEANUP

Geometry cleanup is done to eliminate the elemental failure and better mesh flow by using quick edit panel in hypermesh tools

HYPERMESH-->GEOM-->QUICK EDIT-->(TOGGLE,SPLIT SURFACE,ETC...)

MESHING

As the thickness of the component is 2 mm which is less than 6mm shell meshing is generated for the mid surfaces of the component

5 element size is used as specified for meshing the component 

QUALITY CRITERIA

Quality criteria used to mesh the component is

The component is meshed using this element size and quality criteria

ELEMENT CLEANUP

Element quality is cleared by using cleaanup tools present in the quality index in 2D pannel

HYPERMESH-->2D-->QUALITY INDEX-->CLEANUP TOOLS-->(NODE OPTIMIZE,ELEMENT OPTIMIZE,ETC....)

MATERIAL

Created material by using create material in the component tree and created property to surfaces and assigned the material to the each property

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learned to create mid surfaces for some complex areas 

learned to create and edit mesh 

learned to assign property and material

RESULT

Created mid surface and mesh on the side door component