Simulation

Materials

  • Material — A linear-elastic material in N·mm·MPa units, Ti-6Al-4V by default.

Bodies & Connections

  • Analysis Body — One body of an analysis: a Solid with its Material, treated as solid material or as a thin wall of one thickness.
  • Bolted Joint — Joins two parts with bolts placed in holes they already have: every hole through the head-side part that continues as a blind hole in the threaded part gets a solid bolt, sized from the hole and its counterbore, its thread reaching 1.5 bolt diameters into the threaded part (never past the hole's bottom).
  • Contact — Joins two face selections with bonded contact, so load passes between their domains through a spring of the contact stiffness.
  • Tie — Joins two face selections rigidly: the follower faces move exactly with the driver faces.

Selections

  • Faces in Solid — Picks the part of an Analysis Body's surface that lies inside a Solid, to place loads, supports and connectors on.
  • Region in Solid — Picks the part of an Analysis Body's volume that lies inside a Solid, for example where a metric or a limit applies.

Loads

  • Bearing Load — Loads a bore the way a pin would: a normal pressure that varies as cos θ over the half of the selected faces facing against the load, scaled so it adds up to the given vector.
  • Force — Spreads a force evenly over a face selection.
  • Load Case — An ordered list of loads and supports that act together in one analysis.
  • Point Force — A force acting at a point.
  • Pressure — Pushes on a face selection with a pressure normal to the faces.

Supports

  • Cylindrical Support — Holds a bore or other cylindrical faces.
  • Point Support — Fixes a point, or a face selection rigidly coupled to it.
  • Support — Holds a selection of the part in place: each movement set to 0 is fixed, an empty one left free.

Solve

  • Beam Solve — Solves a frame of straight members as Timoshenko beams of one radius under a load case.
  • Static Analysis — Solves its Analysis Bodies under one Load Case for small, linear-elastic deformation, on the immersed solver: the parts stay as they are, no mesh to build.

Results

  • Reaction Force — The reaction of one Support in an analysis result: the force and moment the Support exerts on the part, summed over every point it holds, in world axes — force in N, moment in N·mm about Point.
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