Generating 60nm thickness along the grain boundaries of a microstructure
Altair EmployeeI generated a microstructure (5 x 5 x 2 micrometer) using Abaqus input file (attached). But the microstructure does not have
grainboundary thickness.
I would like to generate thickness (60nm) along the grain boundaries using hypermesh.
Could you help me generating 60nm thickness along the grain boundaries?
Thank you
Operating System and Version: Windows 10
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If I understand correctly, here's my test:
Create external skin of all 3 components:
Got '^faces' :
Make solid elements by 'elem offset' :
And got final layer boundary :
Is that you're looking for ?
Altair EmployeeQ Nguyen-Dai
Thank you very much for your suggestion.
Based on your figure, we are not sure whether you understood our definition of grain boundary thickness. So I attached a picture showing the grain boundaries(GB) in white color. I think the GB can be modeled either shell or solid.
Also. I tried your method. But, after clicking 'offset' button, E_boundary was not created (Nothing happened).
Thank you.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
That's simpler with shell.
Just create external surface for each solid component.
Your grain boundaries cover whole microstructure? And you want to make them as solid elements?