Week 9-Creation of 1D Connectors Challenge

Objectives:-

1. Creating a mesh of element of 5mm target length and passing the elements for quality criteria.

2. Creating connectors and joining the components with required connector types.

Procedure:-

1. Firstly we need to import the geometry and check the elements.

2. Now we have to set up the quality criteria as per requirement so that we can check up for failed elements and do surface clean up.

3. Now we need to check the elements for geometry clean up. While doing same, came to know there's points which are apart at distance less than minimum element length while might fail for quality criteria. So increased the distance between both the points using split by node and toggle command.

4. Now we can go for meshing the each one of the component keeping element size as 5 and selecting the surface.

5. After meshing we'll have to rebuild or fix the failed elements to pass the quality criteria. By removing all the opposite trias and other quality issues we can get good mesh flow and no failed element.

6. After working on each of the component our part has passed the given quality criteria and now we're ready to work with the connectors.

7. Here we'll have to isolate the two components to perform the action.

8. Here we created seam weld with angled+capped +L.

9. Here we created Spot weld with two layers.

10. Here we created seam quads on the two components.

11. Here we have created bolt with option (create hole, if not found).

12. Here also we have created bolt with option (create hole, if not found) with tolerance of 15 units.

13. Here we have created hexa adhesive with 3 strips and 2 coats.

14. Here we created Rigid connectors in spot between two surfaces.

15. Here we created spot weld with spring element to join the two surfaces.

16. And for all the remaining faces we have joined the surfaces/elements with different connections and joined all of the components.

This is the final image of the model.

Conclusion:-

We created a mesh which passed the given quality criteria and joined all the elements with required and suitable connectors.

Learning outcomes:-

In this challenge we learned about various different types of connectors such as welds, bolts and adhesives etc. and how to connect component using these connectors.