Week - 4 - 2D meshing for Plastic components

Objectives:

- To mesh a 2D plastic component by using casting method.

- To resolve misdefined areas and parameters after the casting.

Challange Approaches:

1. Importing the model to ANSA software.

2. opening the model and do cons resolution which have been set to length of 1.

3. checking the connectivity between the model by using topo command in topo module faces group.

4. checking the model thickness if it is uniform or not.

5. implementing the orient command to get all connections in the same direction.

6. checking the model geometry and fix any errors.

7. Start the casting.

8. After casting results, checking if each area and parameter have been captured or else we capture the manually by using align manager and correcting the mesh flow.

9. check the quality criteria of the model, and correct any elemental failure.

10. Assigning a proper thickness to the midsurface, to covert the nodal thickness into a property thickness.

11. Exporting the model with LS-DYNA solver.

Kindly find the meshed model in the attached file.