I tried to get a solution changing the quad8 to quad 4. Mecway solver doesn't support tri-3 so the mesh is holed but with 100 knodes I get a solution in a few minutes. With the original mesh (quand8 + tri6) and about 300k nodes Mecway utilize all th…
I remember that in a old version of Mecway there was an option under "labs" menu.
CCX supports reduced integration elements of some types...obviously you can change the elements adding "R" on inp file.
example C3D20 become C3D20R
I saw that CCX has…
Takes into account another aspect: often is necessary to assign different properties and/or thickness to the faces. You can do it into Mecway but creating groups on Salome and meshing within Salome, you will find groups of nodes or elements inside "…
For what I know creating surfaces in CAD environment you haven't intersection edges. So importing directly on Mecway the faces are treated as separated surface bodies and the mesh is incongruent.
As you wrote is necessary to split the surfaces but…
Yes, with R-O model runs!
Maybe the combination above (dynamic response+bilinear plastic + contact) must be checked on Linux OS to know if the problem is inside the solver or inside the CCX version for Windows. I remeber that I had a similar proble…
Try to insert plastic properties on material window!
For example Bilinear isotropic hardening : Yeld strenght 355 MPa Et 1000 MPa
Your model has indefinitely elastic material and with this material model I also have a solution. The problem is when …
Windows 7 - 10!
Try to insert plastic property to the material model. I change material property on your model and I had the same problem (see attached picture)
Material library could be usefull too! But, how is suggested by MW Manual, for materials one can create a blank files with the definition of some materials and use this file for starting a new job. For meshing parameters is not possible because you …
Sometimes I have to import several STEP files. For each file I have to set the meshing parameters also if are the same.
What do you think about a possibility of creating mesh criterions and to assign them for the varius components?
The step file is not a real circular hollow section! It has a poligonal section so you can find a problem to mesh it with solid elements.
Trash this geometry and build a new one.
By the way, due to the small thickness is better to model the tube wit…
Of course! Some software (Ansys for example) have an automatic detection of rigid body motions and puts automatically soft springs. In this case, due to the long time ofsolution, I don't know If it is convenient.
You are right! Now I will try to apply axial constraint to the pins: for the central pins is not a problem because they are on the simmetry plane (only vertical translations) but for the lateral pins, is quite diffucult because they have a translati…
Well...I think that the problem is related to the pressure overclosure value (too low). In the test model reducing it happens a similar problem: radial deformations of the free pin
Maybe you're right! But before launching the tongs model I made a test with a simple 3 links hinged where the central pin is restrained only in z direction and seems to be correct deformation shape.
The link and the pins have the same dimension of t…
Maybe you are speacking about two different tecniques for seismic analysis.
1) Use response spectrum (acceleration Vs period) combined with modal analysis and CQC or SRSS combination)
2) Use the accelerogram (acceleration Vs time)
General method is…
If you are performing static analysis you can try iterative solver. See precedent post.
From CCX Manual:
SPOOLES is also very fast, but has no
out-of-core capability: the size of systems you can solve is limited by your
RAM memory. With 2GB of RAM…
See CCX manual about spooles solver. I think that depends from your RAM.
If I'm rigth you must consider the number of equations and not number of elements
Regards
By Mecway I think that is necessary to modify manually the inp file (CCX custom step contents) adding the step relative to the dynamic one.
With internal solver I don't know.