CYCLIC SYMMETRY IN HYPERWORKS

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

Hi, I am a new user of hyperworks and i am currently using the 2017 student edition. I am working on jet engine blades static structural analysis. Considering the cyclic symmetry involved in the problem statement i am trying to stimulate just one blade with the help of cyclic symmetry but i am having a problem setting this up since hyperworks doesn't have any direct GUI option for that. I have been searching for the last week on forum for axi symmetry and cyclic symmetry and all i was able to find was a tutorial of axi symmetry which says that tangential displacement needs to be restricted but according to me that is only possible for certain specific situations of cyclic symmetry problems. I am trying to use PERBC to make the opposite faces of geometry behave same to simulate cyclic symmetry but i am not able to figure out how to implement that. Can anyone help me with that?

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited July 2018

    HI,

     

    Cyclic symmetry is under development and should be available in coming version of HyperWorks. 

  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited July 2018

    Hi,

    I think we may use MPC to constraint cyclic symmetry

    Could you describe your model with applied loads and constraints namely?

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited July 2018

    HI,

     

    PERBC can be an option to manually add symmetry.

     

    Here is a tutorial OS-E: 0705 Periodic Boundary Conditions.

     

    Our developers are working on CYCSYM to accommodate cyclic symmetric for analysis and optimization 

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