Creating a Breakout model

Crashphys
Crashphys Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Is it possible to create a breakout model in hypermesh? I want to take a part of a large model and analyse that on its own.

 

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  • Crashphys
    Crashphys Altair Community Member
    edited January 2020

    Thank you for the info.

     

    Considering I have to import the displacement data, is it possible to create a refined mesh of the portion of interest too, or will it have to be the same mesh exactly?

     

    Thanks

  • Simon Križnik
    Simon Križnik Altair Community Member
    edited January 2020

    The nodes of the imported loads are equivalenced with those of the detailed model which are overlaying each other as a consequence of importing the free body loads. In the attached tutorial (HM-9010) this is done in step 10. I see no reason why it can't be done using displacement data.

  • Crashphys
    Crashphys Altair Community Member
    edited February 2020

    Hello,

     

    I was following the tutorial HM 9010 up until step 8. When I get to the highlighted step, no loadcases are found. I did skip the first part because I am not interested in creating shear moment/potato plots and started from step 7. The tutorial said I could start from this point. If anyone has suggestions on what I might have missed please let me know.

     

    I would also like to know: When performing analysis on a cross section, how can I also enforce the displacements correctly? See the last two pictures attached: The first is a panel in my global model. The second is my panel in the DFEM (.fem files attached). I used the FBD->Forces tool to extract the loads on the section I want, however when I import those forces to my model via BC->Create->Forces->Interpolation, I end up with a ridiculous stress concentration in one part of my model. I'm not sure why this happens, but as far as I can tell there is no way to constrain the model correctly according to the global model. In the global model, all nodes are displaced a certain amount, but in the DFEM the nodes along the edge are forced to be constrained. Is there a way to ensure agreement between the two models?

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