SimLab 12.

0 Tutorial: Torque and Multiple Load Case

Example 4
Torque and Multiple Load Case
Introduction
Torque load is applied to a coupling model. RBE2 is created on the face of the
coupling and torque is applied on this RBE2. Contact is defined between the
parts. Load cases were created from the applied loads and boundary conditions.
The objective of this demonstration is to explain the capabilities of SimLab in
problems having loads like torque, pressure and multiple set of load cases.

Import of the CAD geometry

Using File | Import | Parasolid import the CAD file into SimLab.

Select the CAD file and SimLab will prompt to select the body type and units.
Select the body type as solid and unit as millimeter.

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The model will be imported into SimLab.

Meshing
Now open the meshing workbench by selecting Applications | Meshing or by
clicking on

Meshing in the Workbench toolbar. Select

Surface

Mesh in the Meshing tool bar.

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Select all the bodies and enter the average element size as 125. Click OK to start
the mesh. After the mesh is completed check if the model has any free edges
and overlapping elements. For checking overlapping elements select one body at
a time. to display free edges use the command
display element intersection use

Free Edges and to

Element intersection in the

Meshing toolbar.
After the surface mesh is completed we have to do volume mesh. Select the
Volume Mesh tool from the Meshing tool bar. Select all the three
bodies. Enter Average Element Size as 125 and click Apply.

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Applying the Loads and boundary conditions

Open the Structural workbench by Applications | Analysis | Structural or click
Structural in the Workbench toolbar. This workbench contains the tools to
apply various loads and boundary conditions on the model. We are going to
apply torque and point load in our model. For applying torque, we first create a
rigid body element RBE2 on the face of the coupling. The torque load is applied
in this RBE2 element and in turn it gets transferred to the body.

Creating RBE2
This tool bar has an option called Connections. This will open up a new tool bar
containing tools for creating MPCs, connections, RBEs, bar bodies etc.

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Select the

RBE option. The following dialog will pop up. select the face as

shown and click Apply.

RBE will be created with the master node at the center of the selected face and
connecting all the nodes and mid nodes of the face.

Applying Torque
Select the

Loads button in the Structural analysis toolbar. You can see

the various loads options. Select

Force from that.

You can see the following dialog. Select the node at the center of the RBE2. This
is the master node.

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Enter the Moment of 2000 Nm and Force of - 300 N in the Z direction. Click
Apply to create the load.

Applying Pressure
In the same loads toolbar, select the

Pressure load option. Enter

Magnitude as 210.

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Applying constraints
Click the
select the

Constraints tool bar in the Structural Analysis toolbar and

Fixed constraint option.

Select the face of the coupling at the other end. Constrain the translation
movement in all the three directions by enabling the corresponding check boxes
in the constraint dialog. Click Apply to create the fixed constraint.

Applying Contacts
Now we have to define contact between the three bodies of the model. First the
surface behavior is defined using the Interaction dialog. Click
Interaction in the Structural Analysis toolbar.

Select the shown surface, surface behavior type as No Separation and enter
the friction coefficient value as 0.5. Click Apply to create the surface interaction.

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Next step is to create contact between the interacting surfaces. Open the
Contact dialog from the Structural Analysis toolbar.
Select Body1 and Body3. The selection can be done either in graphic window or
in the assembly model tree. This will automatically find the matching faces
between the two bodies and apply the contact. Select the interaction we have
already created. We are going to apply Abaqus contact. Click Apply to define the
contact.

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The contact can be seen by hiding the bodies from display. Select the bodies,
right click and choose Hide Body.

Similarly define contact between Body 2 and Body 3.

All the loads and boundary conditions we have created can be seen in the LBCs
tab in the assembly tree view.

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Creating Material and Applying properties

In the Structural workbench, select the

Material tool. There are many

parameters to define a material. Enter the parameters and name the material. In
our case we can take the default name.

After creating the material, we need to apply this material to the bodies. Select
the

Property dialog in the Structural analysis tool bar. Select the

category as solid and select the bodies. Click OK to apply the properties.

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For the RBE2, select the category as rigid bar and set the type as Rbe2, select
RigidBody2 from the assembly tree and click OK.

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Creating Load cases

The various loads and boundary conditions we have applied will be displayed in
the

Load Case dialog. We can choose any loads and boundary

condition and group them as a load case.

Choose the parameters and click >.This will move the selected LBCs to the right.
We can name it and save it as a separate load case. Now we are going to
choose Face Constraint and Force as Load Case 1. Click Append to create the
load case.
Similarly we can create other load cases too.

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Exporting to solver
Click the

Export button. Select Optistruct as the solver to export the

problem.

Also select the load cases to be exported. In this example we select all the load
cases. Click OK and save the file.

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Results
Open the Results workbench using Applications | Results or click
in the workbench toolbar. Using

Results

Import Results dialog, open the

result file.

The Model will be loaded in the Graphic display . To load the results for particular
load case, click

Select dialog. Select the Load case and click Display

Von mises stress will be displayed by default.

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Displacement with torque

load alone (Load Case 1)

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Stress - Von Mises - for

pressure load (Load Case 2)

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