Week 3 Verification of Weld Joints

Objective of challenge: 1. To perform the simulation of verification of weld joints and execute it by appyling material Stainless steel for both weldments and plates.
2. To perform the simulation of verification of weld joints and execute it by appyling materials Aluminium alloy(high strength, wrought). Plate material to be used is stainless steel.
3. To perform the simulation of verification of weld joints and execute it by appyling materials bronze as the weld material and assigning Stainless Steel to both plates and Copper to the Ribs.

For 3 cases find out highest equivalent stress, equivalent strain and directional deformation.

Simulation setup configuration as follows:

1. For 3 cases Part names are specified as Big plate, Small plate, Rib 1 and Rib 2. 26 weld joints has default names.

2. For 3 cases materials are applied as per mentioned in objective.

3. Contacts - For 3 cases welding joints are configured as bonded. For other parts configured as shown in below image.

4. Mesh size - For 3 cases overall meshing applied is 7mm and work-piece is 4mm. Body sizing for big plate and small plate meshing applied is 3mm.

5. Analysis settings - For 3 cases configured as shown in below image.

6. Tabulated simulation results as follows.

Description	Case studies
Results	Highest equivalent stress	Equivalent strain	Directional deformation
Load N-mm	15000	15000	15000
Case 1 Stainless Steel	Max 361.62 Mpa	Max 0.001953 mm	Max 0.34701 mm
Case 2 Aluminium Alloy	Max 378.67 Mpa	Max 0.0035554 mm	Max 0.44881 mm
Case 3 Bronze	Max 373.73 Mpa	Max 0.0030931 mm	Max 0.40791 mm
Conclusion	For 3 cases Highest equivalent stress found small difference, but highest value found in Aluminium Alloy.	Highest strain found in Aluminium alloy and Bronze compared to Stainless steel. Highest value found in Aluminium Alloy.	Highest deformation found in Aluminium alloy and Bronze compared to Stainless steel. Highest value found in Aluminium Alloy.