Pro/Mechanica Examples

[Mechy]

Could someone please guide me in the direction of some Pro/Mechanica examples. I am having a number of problems if anyone can help I would be very grateful.

1) How would I best model an adhesive layer? It seems to have problems creating the element with AutoGEM.
2) Can you change the mesh density and what effect does it have?

Thanks

A Beginer!

 

[k2002]

try this:

http://kahuna.sdsu.edu/~johnston/ME1_2001.pdf

 

[srinivaspuri]

Change in Mesh density would be a 'Yes' and 'No'. What you could try doing is to go to AGEM settings and change the max and min angles for the elements. (def: 5 to 175). This is the best mesh you could get. If you increase the angle, then the number of elements you generate would reduce. On the other hand, it might take ages to gen. elements. Another aspect you could cahnge is the Max. Edge turn . You could change it to 45 degrees, which according to many experts is the best. Rem: Changing all this will mean that it maight take even 12 hrs to complete the mesh.

Adhesive Layer: What I would do, is not draw the whole component(with the adhesive layer) as one part file. I would draw the component seperately, and the adhesive layer separtely and assemble them in assembly mode. Then what you could try is to play around with ''Joints and Connection'' and probably bond them. Now this is just a suggestion. Do ask someone.. The best way to model adhesively bonded joints would be in ABAQUS..

Hope this helps.