Week 9 - Creating connection for Rear door

Weekend batch

Objective

To provide requred connections for the given Rear door FE model

Procedure

Bolt connections

RBE2 command is used to create connections for bolt

RBE2 -> Many Nodes and loop option enabled for easy selection of holes

The created connection is grouped under Connections in model browser as shown below

For mating holes that are in contact cluster connections are used as shown below

and for mating hole that are distant RBE2 -> 2nodes command is used as shown

Weld

Spot weld

Create a COG point ont element of contact

Then convert the point into spot wel point as shown below

Then RBE3-HEXA-RBE3 is used to create spot weld

Seam Weld

Cons to curve is used to create curve at the edge and the curve is moved and converted into seaming line

Then connection manager is used to make OVERLAP SHELL connection as shown below

CBUSH

Used to define mechanisms

Created a curve along the edges of the glass and moved it by 5mm

Converted the line to spot line

Then connection manager is used to define CBUSH connection using RBE3-CBUSH-RBE3

Then the process is repeated for all sides of the glass