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I-DEAS FEM cyclic modelling

Thread starter Chrischtof
Start date May 24, 2006

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May 24, 2006

Chrischtof

Aerospace

Hi everybody!
I'm trying to model a turbine blade and wanted to use cyclic symmetry, but I just don't get a cyclic periodic result.
I meshed the volume with surface dependency, applied boundary conditions as well as coupled DOF's (cyclic option). No way to get a proper result!

Any hints?