how to create perfectly joined rod at the joints of a roll cage structure

Rahul_P1
Rahul_P1
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

i am facing problem while doing line mesh and creating rod elements the rod elements are not joining properly at the joints i am attaching the image
aqm10-sagar1.png

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  • Rahul_P1
    Rahul_P1
    Altair Employee
    edited May 2015

    Hi,

    The elements which you are using is PBAR OR PBEAM element.
    If you are expecting the 1d model to be similar to 3d CAD model. Then that would not happen using 1d element.
    That is the limitation of 1d element. You could try with 2d & 3d elements.

    Regards
    Rahul R

  • Rahul_P1
    Rahul_P1
    Altair Employee
    edited May 2015

    Hi Sagar,

    No need to edit the geometry for 1d mesh.
    For 1d meshing center line with proper intersecting points is enough for the analysis.

    In your model Problem is because of line continuity & few overlapping line. Whenever lines are intersecting at any junction there should not be any continuity on that region.

    g3x40-cont.JPG

    Do correction by using geometry page line edit option.
    Geometry page: line edit: Split at line

    Regards
    Rahul R

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