Week 4 -Wire Bending Challenge

OBJECTIVE:

To perform the wire bending simulation and compare the results for 3 different non linear materials.

METHODOLOGY:

• First add the given non linear materials to the engineering data from the material library.
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• assaign the non linear material to the wire and define the frictional contact between the wire and lever and between wire and the die.
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• give the revolute joint to the lever and apply the mesh .
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• perform the face sizing to the surfaces which come in contact and refine the mesh by selecting the sphere of influence at a region on the wire where the max bending occurs.
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• perform the analysis in 8 steps , fix the die and give the joint rotation to the lever in the form of tabular data.
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• run the simulation and compare the results for different materials of the wire.

CASE 1: copper alloy

CASE 2: Aluminium alloy

CASE 3:Magnesium alloy

CONCLUSION:

From the above figures we can conclude that aluminium alloy can withstand more load and show better results than the other two materials.