EDEM Application Tutorial 3100: Slatted Conveyor with Concave Polyhedrals

Stephen Cole
Stephen Cole
Altair Employee
edited October 23 in Altair HyperWorks

Simulation Files and tutorial PDF download link

Tutorial Overview

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a family of equal parts that move in the same trajectory but with a delay from each other. This is important to easily created many geometries moving in a complex manner by having to define the kinematics only once.

The tutorial will describe the steps to producing a simulation of a slatted conveyor belt for apples, as the one shown below.

The main focus of this tutorial is on:

  • Importing a complex Polyhedral (Concave Shape)
  • Creating multiple copies of a single geometry
  • Adding linear translation and linear rotation to the geometry
  • Adding texture to geometry
  • Adding template to a particle

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Duration

Setup - 30min

Simulation - 15min

Analysis - 10min

 

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