Now I reused the full Hexaeder mesh (Hex20 & Wedge15 only) from Ansys in PrePoMax to make some comparisons. In my post “Wind turbine hub calculation in Ansys” you find more information of the mesh…
Tag: FEM
Finite element analysis with finite element method (FEM)
Moving load with Julia in PrePoMax
Some weeks ago I prepared a simulation of a wheel with moving load in Ansys. And I would like to calculate the improved Ansys mesh in PrePoMax as well. So I translated the mesh from…
I went into the mesh
A post from Diego Magela Lemos on LinkedIn got me. He used the great work from Prof. Christophe Geuzaine to create a mesh from a picture in Gmsh. I already used Gmsh before to convert…
Wind turbine hub calculation in Ansys
Some will already know the wind turbine hub model, but now I have taken the time and remade the model in Ansys Mechanical. At the latest, the following animated image should bring back memories of…
Wheel with moving load in Ansys
About five months ago I started with a steel wheel in PrePoMax. There you can find more information about the design and model setup. Now i reused these wheel geometry and prepared a new mesh…
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
Some month ago I prepared a geometry from a rest of a bicycle chain in FreeCAD. I used only a caliper to measure the dimensions. Because I really wanted to test the nonlinear contact in…
Happy Easter
I have found an Easter egg in FreeCAD. And thanks to FEM workbench in FreeCAD, the egg is even colorful. It was not so easy to find, because who actually knows how an egg is…
Steel wheel in PrePoMax
Keep the wheels turning. A steel wheel with shell elements has been on my list for a long time. In the past, I always had only aluminum rims with solid elements in the simulation (see…
Wind turbine hub calculation in Fatlab (PrePoMax results)
Finally, the CalculiX interface in Fatlab now works also for more complex results from PrePoMax. The following video shows a complete fatigue calculation run of a simple hub in Fatlab with PrePoMax (Calculix) results. I…
FreeCAD FEM results in Fatlab
If you have a simple model and load you can directly use FreeCAD FEM workbench results in Fatlab. In the previous post I had introduced the newly implemented interface to use CalculiX results in Fatlab…