SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium – Nonlinear Training Course
Course Description: This class will raise your SOLIDWORKS Simulation FEA skills to the next level! It offers hands-on experience on the use of SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium nonlinear module. This course provides an overview on a wide range of nonlinear structural/mechanical analysis topics. You will learn how to deal with models that exhibit large displacements and/or yielding, discuss and practice the use of many material models available in SOLIDWORKS Simulation and, most importantly, how to drive a non-linear analysis to successful completion
Course Length: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Must have attended the basic SOLIDWORKS Simulation class, or must have an experience with SOLIDWORKS + working basic knowledge of finite elements and of basic mechanical principles
Who should attend: Designed for users who would like to become productive fast, the nonlinear course offers hands-on experience on the use of SOLIDWORKS Simulation nonlinear module. The two-day course provides an overview on a wide range of nonlinear structural/mechanical analysis topics.
Topics
About This Course
Windows® 7
What is SOLIDWORKS Simulation?
Introduction to Nonlinear Structural Analysis
- Introduction
- Types of Nonlinearities
- Solving Nonlinear Problems
Geometric Nonlinearities
- Introduction
- Large displacements problems
- Small Displacement Analysis
- Finite Strain Analysis
- Large Deflection Analysis
- References
Material Models and Constitutive Relations
- Introduction
- Elastic Models
- Elasto-Plastic Models
- Super Elastic Nitinol Model
- Linear Visco-Elastic Model
- Creep Model
- References
Numerical Procedures for Nonlinear FEA
- Overview
- Incremental Control Techniques
- Iterative Methods
- Termination Criteria
- References
Contact Analysis
- Introduction
- Global Contact / Gap Conditions
- Local Contact / Gap Conditions
- Troubleshooting for Gap / Contact Problems
- References
Geometric Nonlinearities
- Large displacements problems
- Large strain formulation
Material Nonlinearities
- Nonlinear elasticity
- Hyperelasticity (Mooney-Rivlin, Ogden)
- Plasticity (von Mises, isotropic/kinematic/mixed hardening rules)
- Temperature dependent material properties
- Visco-elasticity and creep
Contact (Boundary) Nonlinearities
- 3D nonlinear gap/contact analysis (with or without material nonlinearities).
Numerical Procedures
- Solution control techniques (force, displacement,and Arc-Length controls)
- Equilibrium Iterations schemes (Newton-Raphson, modified Newton-Raphson)
- Termination schemes (convergence and divergence criteria)
Special Topics
- Adaptive automatic stepping algorithm
- Prescribed non-zero displacements associated with time curves
- Deformation dependent loading
- Analysis stabilization techniques
Viewing the Results
- Deflected shape plots
- Displacement and stress color filled contour plots
- Animation of deflected shape, displacement, and stress contour plots
- X-Y plots for response quantities Isoplanes and sectioning
