Challenge

Week 6 - Creating connection for Rear door

Aim:

To perform the connections of the rear door of the car with different connection techniques.

PROCEDURE:-

FOR HOLES : Use Bolt type Connections.

For this type of connection, give a COG points to the holes that need to be connected.
Convert the COG point to a bolt.
Use the connection manager and connect the parts by selecting BOLT FEATURE.
Create ZONE CUT for bolt holes with the washer element around the hole which is not connected to many parts.
TYPE OF CONNECTION used - RBE2 connections.
NASTRAN MODULE>ELEMENTS>RBE2>MANY NODES can be used to create a cluster element for bolt holes when there are no different properties defined to parts.

FOR DOOR HINGE CONNECTION :

Create RBE2 cluster elements in order to make the movement of rear door towards one direction.
Delete the sixth degree of freedom under NASTRAN>ELEMENT>INFO. (Select only 1 2 3 4 5 ).

For connections involved in SPOT WELDING :

HANDLE CONNECTION for door:

Handle connections are made using RBE2 elements along with CONMi>CONM2>NODES in order to give mass representation of the handle in tonnes.

CONNECTION FOR WINDOWS :

Create curve around the perimeter of the window.
Transform them into spot lines.
Select the lines after opening CONNECTIONS MANAGER RBE3-CBUSH-RBE3 is used to represent Window Connections because windows are connected with soft bush to absorb shocks and an off-set is provided at the bottom part of the window for weather beeding.
Assign parts for connections of CBUSH elements.
Repeat this procedure for fixed window.
Change the co-ordinate to 0 in CBush Properties so it gets globally aligned towards one direction.

FINAL PART :

CONCLUSION:

Ship work like this
in your own course.