{"id":6065,"date":"2019-08-09T13:24:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T12:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6065"},"modified":"2019-08-09T13:26:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T12:26:31","slug":"solving-beamy-three-point-bending-test-with-solidworks-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/08\/solving-beamy-three-point-bending-test-with-solidworks-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving Beamy \u2013 Three-Point Bending Test with SOLIDWORKS Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three-point bending tests are a common way to evaluate the structural integrity of mechanical components and ensure they meet required displacement\/force criteria. A typical test setup for this type of test is shown in Figure 1 below.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1 \u2013 Typical Three-Point Bending Test<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is often used to mimic these types of tests, allowing for product designers to avoid costly physical prototypes and setting up physical tests. Beamy produces a high-tech speaker, and we are going to try and use SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium to perform a three-point bending test on an internal bracket for one of these speakers, see Figures 2-3.<\/p>\n

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SOLIDWORKS Simulation is a powerful integrated solution that many designers and analysts use for their day-to-day simulation needs. This example is a little more complex than most. While it appears to be a fairly straightforward analysis, the sliding contacts between the chassis and the rods, coupled with the nonlinear material behavior of the chassis, which made of a high-impact acrylic whose material properties are shown in Figure 4, make this a highly nonlinear problem.<\/p>\n

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Figure 4 \u2013 Acrylic Chassis Material Properties<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The setup of the problem is simple inside of SOLIDWORKS Simulation; we define a no-penetration contact between the rods and the chassis with an appropriate friction coefficient, which is shown in Figure 5 below. We also fix the bottom two rods and apply the appropriate displacement to the push rod, standard boundary conditions for this type of analysis.<\/p>\n

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Figure 5 \u2013 Contact Conditions in SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This solution requires some \u201cmassaging\u201d of the default solver settings because there is local buckling in the chassis where the push rod makes contact. It also takes over 25 minutes for this solution to fully converge. A displacement plot is show in Figure 6 below. For this type of analysis, 25 minutes seems a bit excessive. While it\u2019s great to be able to get a converged solution, the solution time and the need to tweak the solver settings make it difficult to run multiple simulations or do a simulation-driven product design.<\/p>\n

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Figure 6 \u2013 Displacement Results in SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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One of the many benefits of using a solution like SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS Simulation, is that they are both part of the larger Dassault Syst\u00e8mes ecosystem. Within that ecosystem are various tools that can be used to solve problems like this in a timely manner. In the upcoming blog posts we\u2019ll take a look at using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and solutions from the Simulia brand to solve this problem.<\/p>\n

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Originally posted in the SOLIDWORKS Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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