Simulation Analysis Studies

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Setup, solve, and understand surrounding static stress simulations  Start with the basics and move to more advanced tools, such as bolted connections. We’ll then walk through how to prepare and process a static simulation.

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Use Fusion to prepare a model for simulation with the simplify workspace.
• Create a static stress simulation.
• Use advanced simulation setup options.
• Solve and review a simulation study.

• Start a static stress simulation
• Use simplify
• Select study materials
• Create custom materials
• Define structural constraints
• Use a bolted connection
• Add a structural load
• Define multiple load conditions
• Solve contact sets
• Generate mesh and mesh control
• Solve a simulation
• Review simulation results
• Practice exercise
• Challenge exercise

Review shape optimization simulation study type to explore load paths in designs. Identify critical load paths in a design to make more informed decisions on material removal.

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Explain topology optimization.
• Create a shape optimization simulation study for a gear.
• Modify a design based on simulation results.
• Validate design decisions through static stress simulation.

• Define common parameters for a shape optimization
• Define shape preservation regions
• Detail optimization criteria
• Review a shape optimization study
• Promote a mesh to create a new design
• Design creation to match a shape optimization mesh
• Validate through static stress simulation
• Review and refine a design
• Practice exercise
• Challenge exercise

Learn about nonlinear response, structural buckling, and modal frequencies. These study types give greater insight into structural and mechanical problems associated with a wide variety of designs. Explore various aspects of our gear reduction assembly and other examples suited for these types of simulations.

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Define various types of simulation studies for mechanical problems.
• Review simulation study results.
• Modify designs based on simulation study results.

• Define and solve a nonlinear static stress study
• Review nonlinear results
• Refine the model and rerun the study
• Define and solve a buckling study
• Review and refine a buckling study
• Review a final buckling study
• Define and solve a modal frequency study
• Review modal results
• Modify the model to reduce the mass participation
• Create a rigid body connector
• Explore point masses
• Apply additional force types
• Simulate pressure
• Practice exercise
• Challenge exercise

Explore and compare the effects of thermal and thermal stresses on designs. Temperature and heat can be a major factor in the failure of a design, so exploring a design’s performance can lead to better informed design decisions. We’ll also look at event simulation and how a design performs when subject to motion and how it responds to an impact.

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Explain how thermal loading can happen.
• Create thermal simulation studies.
• Describe types of thermal transfer that can be defined.
• Review an event simulation study.

• Prepare a model for thermal simulation
• Set up thermal study materials
• Understand and apply types of thermal loads
• Solve a thermal study and review the results
• Clone a simulation model
• Set up a thermal stress study
• Set up mesh and contacts
• Modify a thermal stress study
• Event simulation setup
• Event simulation results review
• Practice exercise
• Challenge exercise

Now that you’ve completed the learning material in this course, you can take the challenge exercise to measure your skills on the topics covered in this course. Follow the assignment directions below or download the PDF to follow along at your own pace.

• Course challenge

Ready to test your knowledge? Pass this required test with a score of 75% or more to complete the course and earn a certificate of completion.

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