Modeling of core-shell system

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
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edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

How to get the same mesh on the inner surface of the shell and outer surface of the core, so that equivalence feature can be used to combine the meshes for fem study. I have attached the model below. Thanks!

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  • mechemre
    mechemre Altair Community Member
    edited March 2019

    I also trying to do this in Abaqus. In literature, people did it with Hypermesh or IA-FEmesh but there is no details about this modeling. Good question!

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited March 2019

    Hi

    Extract the faces of shell named component mesh by click on > Tool > faces ,Take only the inner surface of face by deleting or masking the other elements and create the TET mesh by these shell elements for core 

    Find the attached the video clip 

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  • mechemre
    mechemre Altair Community Member
    edited March 2019

    How to get the same mesh on the inner surface of the shell and outer surface of the core, so that equivalence feature can be used to combine the meshes for fem study. I have attached the model below. Thanks!

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    Hi Nishendra,

     

    I saw your model and I also try to model from L1 to L5 for my studies. I have some models but I couldn't seperate them into shell and core parts as in your model. How do you model them as core and shell parts? Which program did you use for this?

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited March 2019

     

    Hi Nishendra,

     

    I saw your model and I also try to model from L1 to L5 for my studies. I have some models but I couldn't seperate them into shell and core parts as in your model. How do you model them as core and shell parts? Which program did you use for this?

    I used ansys spaceclaim direct modeller for this purpose

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited March 2019

    Hi

    Extract the faces of shell named component mesh by click on > Tool > faces ,Take only the inner surface of face by deleting or masking the other elements and create the TET mesh by these shell elements for core 

    Find the attached the video clip 

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    Hi, i am unable to play this video, can you please upload it in a google drive link and share it. Thanks for your help! 

     

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited March 2019

    Hi

    Please find the attached file 

     

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  • mechemre
    mechemre Altair Community Member
    edited March 2019

    I used ansys spaceclaim direct modeller for this purpose

     

    Hi Nishendra, 

     

    Thank you! In spaceclaim direct modeller,  I could form shell inner surfaces from my solid vertebra model by using shell offset. However, I couldn't export them as .iges files. Which format did you prefer to export them into Hypermesh? Could you help me with your experience about this situation, please?

  • Q.Nguyen-Dai
    Q.Nguyen-Dai Altair Community Member
    edited March 2019

    For CAD format, you can export to STEP, IGES or Parasolid.

  • mechemre
    mechemre Altair Community Member
    edited March 2019

    For CAD format, you can export to STEP, IGES or Parasolid.

     

    After I formed inner shell surfaces (facets) from my solid vertebra model by using shell offset  in spaceclaim direct modeller, spaceclaim serves .obj, .stl and etc. formats not .iges, .step or other cad formats. So, I couldn't load it into Hypermesh.

  • mechemre
    mechemre Altair Community Member
    edited March 2019

     

    After I formed inner shell surfaces (facets) from my solid vertebra model by using shell offset  in spaceclaim direct modeller, spaceclaim serves .obj, .stl and etc. formats not .iges, .step or other cad formats. So, I couldn't load it into Hypermesh.

     

    Hey Guys! ,

     

    I obtained the inner offset shell surface from Spaceclaim (Nishendra said before) as .stl format. Then, I converted it to .igs by using Geomagic Design X. Thus, I can transfer it into Hypermesh.

     

    Kind regards,

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited March 2019

     

    Hey Guys! ,

     

    I obtained the inner offset shell surface from Spaceclaim (Nishendra said before) as .stl format. Then, I converted it to .igs by using Geomagic Design X. Thus, I can transfer it into Hypermesh.

     

    Kind regards,

    Hi, 

    You can convert the shell to solid in Spaceclaim itself. Right click on your component in the model tree, and click convert to solid. Then you can export it in any of the cad format.