In this workshop we expose the user to the Simulation Wizard and perform a simple static stress analysis on the fluid connector. Basic file management is discussed as well.

This workshop demonstrates how to control creation of lower order versus higher order elements and tetrahedron versus brick elements in Workbench. It also provides students the opportunity to compare solution accuracy and computational resources for models with lower and higher elements using the Workbench solution information object.

This workshop demonstrates how to use some of the meshing techniques available in Simulation to obtain accurate stresses.

The primary purpose of this workshop is to provide students the opportunity to check the results of the finite element model using hand calculations based on closed form solutions. We use symmetry boundary conditions to perform analysis on a quarter model of the flanged tube. We define a local cylindrical coordinate system and then use it to calculate axial, radial, and hoop component stresses. Finally, we compare the finite element model component stresses with stresses calculated using closed form equations for thin and thick walled pressure vessels. Students discuss with the instructor the correlation between the finite element and hand calculated stresses.

This workshop is set up with the use of Virtual Topology for ease of meshing and the postprocessing covers the extensive options available within Workbench including cut planes, vector plots, legend manipulation, etc.

The focus of this workshop is use of scoping and convergence to evaluate local stresses. We start the workshop by doing stress analysis on a version of the link, which has a sharp corner, and students refine the mesh at the sharp corner to discover first hand the behavior of a stress singularity. Using model branching students add to the project a version of the link, which has a fillet where the sharp corner was present in the previous version. Students define a scoped stress object for stresses in the fillet and then use convergence to determine the stress to an accuracy of 2%.

The primary objective of this workshop is for students to confirm that a half model provides identical answers to a full model when the model has a plane of symmetry. Students first perform analysis of the full model. We then use model branching to add to the project a half symmetric model, perform analysis on the half model with appropriate symmetry boundary conditions, and compare the solutions of the full and half models. This workshop also provides the opportunity to practice scoping and convergence.

This workshop is designed to provide students with practice modeling assemblies. We read the assembly into Workbench and perform static stress analysis using default bonded contact to hold the parts together. We then use model branching to make a new version of the model, which has no separation contact instead of bonded contact for some of the joints, and we compare the behavior of the models with bonded and no separation contact in the joints.

In this workshop we set up a model of an alternator bracket for normal modes analysis. We model the alternator attached to the bracket as a rigid point mass and monitor the change in natural frequencies and mode shapes as we change it to a deformable point mass. We also add standard earth gravity and note that Workbench takes into account prestress effects if structural loads are present while performing a normal modes analysis.

This workshop teaches the user to identify and fix locations in a model that may have rigid body motion due to contact regions that are not correctly defined.

This workshop provides additional practice with shell models in Workbench. We read this single surface body part model into WB and define the part thickness. We initially use spot welds to connect the model corners. We use model branching to make a second version of the model, which uses edge to edge contact instead of spot welds at the corners. Initially, the edge to edge contact does not work, and we use advanced contact options including changing the pinball radius and search direction in order to get the contact to work. Loads on the model include displacement constraints and surface pressure.