GENERAL FINITE ELEMENT SOFTWARE EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS

a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i) j)

Automotive System Analysis Wagon System Analysis Aircraft System Analysis Other Mechanical Systems Analysis Large Strain Analysis Fluid-Structure Interaction Dam Analysis Semiconductor Analysis Numerical Simulation of Single Crystal Growth Rod Growth During Solid Freeform Fabrication

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a) Automotive System Analysis

Car body FE model (shells and beams)

Car body (beams) and windshield (shells) model

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Bending of the car body (experimental and FEM analysis)

Nonlinear static and dynamic structural analysis of car body

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Impact into the door panel (elastic-plastic buckling analysis)

Analysis of internally acting brake (contact problem)

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Analysis of Hertz contact problem for roller bearing

Heat transfer and thermal stress analysis of piston

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b) Wagon System Analysis

Static structural analysis of wagon-cistern (experimental and FEM analysis)

Wagon-chassis frame member with field of effective stress

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Modal analysis of wagon bogie frame (first eigen mode)

Dynamic structural analysis of wagon bogie frame with life prediction (experimental and FEM analysis)

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c) Aircraft System Analysis

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Lever of lending gear (Static and Dynamic structural analysis)

Fixed part of lending gear (Static and Dynamic structural analysis)

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d) Other Mechanical Systems Analysis

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Thermo-elasto-plastic analysis and life prediction of steam boiler

Thermo-elasto-plastic and creep analysis of outer wall of nuclear reactor

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Modal analysis of rotational excavation (second eigen mode)

Dynamic analysis of rotational excavation (experimental and FEM analysis)

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A part supporting structure of bridge under torsion (experimental and FEM post-buckling elastic-plastic analysis)

A part supporting structure of bridge under bending (elastic-plastic analysis)

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e) Large Strain Analysis

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Necking of rectangular bar

Necking of circular bar

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f) Fluid-Structure Interaction

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Distribution of pressure field in a collapsed tube

Distribution of stress field on a collapsed tube

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g) Dam Analysis

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Nonlinear analysis of joint behaviour under thermal and hydrostatic loads for an arch dam

Computed head distribution of dam (underground seepage)

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h) Semiconductor Analysis

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Oxide

Wafer

Tensile strain exx beneath a 2.5 m wide stripe window

Oxide

Wafer

Tensile strain exx beneath a 20 m wide stripe window

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6 4 2
Stress Sxx

0 -2 -4 -6 Depth 1 Depth 2 Depht 4

10 Distance

15

20

25

Tensile stress xx beneath a 20 m wide stripe window at depth 1, 2 and 4 m

6 4 2
Stress Syy

0 -2 -4 -6 Depth 1 Depth 2 Depth 4

10 Distance

15

20

25

Tensile stress yy beneath a 20 m wide stripe window at depth 1, 2 and 4 m

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i) Numerical Simulation of Single Crystal Growth

Auxiliary heater

Melt Submerged heater

GaAs

Alumina

Silica
Temperature field in the hot zone (without the guarding heater)

Auxiliary heater

Melt Submerged heater

Guarding heater

GaAs

Alumina

Silica
Temperature field in the hot zone (with the guarding heater)
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j) Analysis of Rod Growth During Solid Freeform Fabrication

Deposit

Substrate

Transient Simulation, Time Step Two

Deposit

Substrate

Transient Simulation, Time Step Four

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