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COSMOSXpress Stress Analysis of Weldment
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No work around that I'm aware of....COSMOSXpress is an introductory version of COSMOSWorks. Check you online help for what you can do in CE. I think you will need to have the Cosmos Professional to be able to do weldments because I believe it treats them as assemblies. I could be wrong on that because we use a different analysis program.
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Heckler
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Heckler is correct. THere is no workaround Cosmos Express only works with a part only.
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How about doing a Combine on the Cut List bodies? Not exactly the same as a weldment, but maybe close enough.
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Blimey is correct in saying that while you cannot use cosxpress on an assembly or a multi-body part, you can combine the individual bodies into a single entitiy and run the analysis like that.
The one major problem with this method that "contact" areas will become solid, as if the part were welded with 100% penetration and no weld re-inforcement (the bead) and this would certainly be misleading as to the actual strength of the weldment.
Another method i have used in the past is to actually model the welds complete with penetration profile, and crown. In areas where necessary i have also modeled the melt through (such as the root pass of a v-butt weld).
You can use any method that you wish to model the beads, just make sure that you re-select the "merge result" option in the property manager.
Oh i should mention that if there are faces in the members of a weldment that touch, they too will join when using this method so you may want to cut-a little material so there is a small gap before you start modeling weld beads.
Just another option.
Best of luck
Regards,
Jon
The one major problem with this method that "contact" areas will become solid, as if the part were welded with 100% penetration and no weld re-inforcement (the bead) and this would certainly be misleading as to the actual strength of the weldment.
Another method i have used in the past is to actually model the welds complete with penetration profile, and crown. In areas where necessary i have also modeled the melt through (such as the root pass of a v-butt weld).
You can use any method that you wish to model the beads, just make sure that you re-select the "merge result" option in the property manager.
Oh i should mention that if there are faces in the members of a weldment that touch, they too will join when using this method so you may want to cut-a little material so there is a small gap before you start modeling weld beads.
Just another option.
Best of luck
Regards,
Jon
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