DHARMINDER ARORA CAD ZONE

Workshop on FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN PROCESS

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN (CAD)

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING (CAM) COMPPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING (CAE)

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

IS A COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNIQUE USED IN ENGINEERING ANALYSIS. IT USES A NUMERICAL TECHNIQUE CALLED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD (FEM). FEA CONSISTS OF A COMPUTER MODEL OF A MATERIAL OR DESIGN THAT IS STRESSED AND ANALYZED FOR SPECIFIC RESULTS DISCRETIZE OBJECT FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEM THE FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS WAS FIRST DEVELOPED IN 1943 BY RICHARD COURANT

DISCRETIZATION OR MESHING

FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPT

YIELD STRENGTH OF MATERIAL FACTOR OF SAFETY = MAX. STRESS PRODUCED

ADVANTAGES OF FEA
VISUALIZATION DESIGN CYCLE TIME NUMBER OF PROTOTYPES TESTING OPTIMUM DESIGN

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
NEW DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OR COST CUTTING PROJECTS FAILURE ANALYSIS VIRTUALLY USED IN ALL INDUSTRIES LIKE AEROSPACE AUTOMOBILES,CONSUMER PRODUCTS,MACHINE DESIGN,STRUCTURAL DESIGN ETC.

3 STEPS OF FEA
1. PREPROCESSING a. CAD DATA b. MESHING c. BOUNDRY CONDITIONS 2. PROCESSING OR SOLUTION 3. POST PROCESSING a. VIEWING RESULTS b. VERIFICATIONS c. CONCLUSIONS

PRACTICAL EXAMPLE

TYPES OF ANALYSIS
1. LINEAR STATIC ANALYSIS 2. NON LINEAR ANALYSIS

3. DYNAMIC ANALYSIS
4. BUCKLING ANALYSIS 5. THERMAL ANALYSIS 6. FATIGUE ANALYSIS 7. OPTIMIZATION 8. CFD ANALYSIS 9. CRASH ANALYSIS

10. NVH ANALYSIS

Linear STATIC Analysis

SIMPLEST AND MOST COMMONLY USED TYPE OF ANALYSIS

STRUCTURE RESPONSE (DEFORMATION, STRESS AND STRAIN) IS LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE MAGNITUDE OF LOAD

NO VARIATION OF FORCE WITH RESPECT TO TIME

NON Linear analysis

LOAD TO RESPONSE RATION IS NOT LINEARLY PROPOTIONAL GEOMETRIC, MATERIAL AND BOUNDRY NON LINEARITIES

DYNAMIC OR VIBRATION analysis

FORCE VARIES WITH RESPECT TO TIME DISPLACEMENT IS FUNCTION OF TIME

FREE VIBRATION AND FORCED VIBRATION ANALYSIS

THERMAL analysis
ANALYSIS OF A SYSTEM USING LAWS OF HEAT TRANSFER HEAT TRANSFER THROUGH CONDUCTION, CONVECTION AND RADIATION

CFD(COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS) analysis NUMERICAL TOOL TO SOLVE EQUATIONS OF FLUID DYNAMICS

FATIGUE ANALYSIS
CALCULATE LIFE OF STRUCTURE WHEN IT IS SUBJECTED TO REPETITIVE LOAD LOW CYCLE AND HIGH CYCLE FATIGUE STREES AND STRAIN LIFE APPROACH

CRASH,IMPACT OR EXPLICIT ANALYSIS

DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF IMPACT AND CRASH ON STRUCTURE AND OCCUPANTS OF VEHICLES

Crash or impact analysis example

buckling ANALYSIS
CALCULATE LIFE OF STRUCTURE WHEN IT IS SUBJECTED TO REPETITIVE LOAD LOW CYCLE AND HIGH CYCLE FATIGUE STREES AND STRAIN LIFE APPROACH