Week - 8 - Morphing

AIM

To learn and practise basic morphing techniques.

PROCEDURE

Morphing

Morphing is the process of modifying the design of the model without the invoivement of any numerical inputs. If the design change is feasible, the design team can work full-fledged on the model and bring out the changes to the component.

Box Morphing

Box Morphing is done with the help of the boxes with nodes in the corners. These boxes are created around the part or components which needs to be morphed.

By Moving the nodes of the box, the morphing is done on the components inside the box. This type of morphing can be done on both CAD and FE models.

PERFORMING GEOMETRY CLEANUP

The geometry checkccan be seen under the TOOLS tab under CHECKS-->GEOMETRY.

On Clicking the Execute button, the errors or geometrical issues in the model will pop up.

These errors can be fixed manually one by one or can be fixed automatically. When fixing automatically, the errors are fixed by ANSA.

CREATING MORPHING BOXES

All the morphing related commands are available in the morphing deck. The morph box creating command is under the BOXES-->NEW

In the new morph dialogbox, Geometry optionis selected in case there is CAD geometry.

Upon accepting, the morph box created.

Similarly, another morph box is created as same the other Component too.

Finally, the morph box is created for the whole model.

PERFORMING MORPHING

Morphing is done by moving the entities inside the box by selecting the nodes. It is under the BOX MORPHING --> MOVE in the Morph module.

Then with a middle mouse click, the morphing is done by moving the entities in the X,Y and Z directions as desired.

Once the morphing is completed, the morph boxes can be deleted as they are not required anymore.

The morph boxes are deleted with the help of BOXES --> DELETE in the morph module.

APPLICATION OF MORPHING

Morphing uses in various industries in structure and material usage.

Application in Automobile industry likes aerodynamics increase speed of the vehicle, reduce CO2, whole structural change and other too.

Application in Aircraft industry likes changes of wings design for aeroplane, propolar design and other too.

CONCLUSION

Thus the need of morphing, its basics and the procedure are learnt from the project.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Morphing and its applications are learnt in the project.