Week 3 Verification of Weld Joints
AIM:
Simulate three different types of welding using three different weld materials
Weld Material used:
Case 1. Stainless Steel: In this case, the material of the plates must also be the same. Use Stainless steel for both weldments and plates. No need to add flux to the weldments.
Case 2. Aluminium Alloy:The material to be chosen for this case is Aluminium alloy(high strength, wrought). [Plate material to be used is stainless steel]
Case 3.Bronze: In order to simulate "Brazing", you should be using bronze as the weld material. Assign Stainless Steel to both plates and Copper to the "Ribs".
Run the simulation for a load of 15000N that is to be applied at the rectangular hole in the small plate( Same as in the video).
For each case, find out the Directional Deformation and equivalent strain experienced by the setup. Identify the weld joint that experiences the highest equivalent stress in each case and compare the results for all three cases
Procedure:
- Open the Ansys Work bench and edit the Engineering Data.
- We should have assign the stainless steel,Aluminium,and bronze,copper to the given model.
- We should go the Geomentry>import>the model.We should have to check in the edit space claim so that if any surfaces are missing in the geomentry.
- We should have to edit the model in the model tab.
- we should have to rename the parts in the model as Plates,Ribs.
- we should go to the Contact>give frictional coefficent to the 0.3>to the fixed supports of the model.
- we should have to give the mesh to the model.
- After the mesh we should have to give the analysis of 1 sec large deformation>on.
- we should have to create the fixed supports to the given model.
- We should have to give the Force of 15000N to small plate.
- we should have to give the directional deformation,stress,strain to the given model.
Force Convergence
Deformation
stress
strain
stress
Case 2 :Aluminium
Force convergence
Deformation
stress
strain
stress
Case 3:Bronze
Force Convergence
Deformation
stress
strain
stress
Results:
Case 1:Strainless steel
Deformation
- Maximum=0.340933mm
- Minimum=-0.035429mm
Stress
- Maximum=339.89Mpa
- Minimum=0.14961Mpa
Strain
- Maximum=0.0018667mm
- Minimum=1.0214e-6mm
Stress in weld zones
- Maximum=279.98Mpa
- Minimum=1.4448Mpa
Case 2:Aluminium
Deformation
- Maximum=0.8142mm
- Minimum=-0.11032mm
Stress
- Maximum=349.29Mpa
- Minimum=0.11288Mpa
Strain
- Maximum=0.004933mm
- Minimum=2.813e-6mmmm
Stress in weld zones
- Maximum=349.29Mpa
- Minimum=1.7637Mpa
Case 3:Bronze
Deformation
- Maximum=0.37309mm
- Minimum=-0.032996mm
Stress
- Maximum=347.2Mpa
- Minimum=0.13196Mpa
Strain
- Maximum=0.0019077mm
- Minimum=9.9511e-7mm
Stress in weld zones
- Maximum=275.35Mpa
- Minimum=0.92974Mpa