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 What’s in the news?
 Hotfix 1 for Nastran In-CAD 2016
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Drop Test Your Design
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Bart McPheeters and James Kubli
Technical Support Specialists

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 Drop Test Simulation

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 Agenda

 Introduction to Drop Test Simulation

 Drop Testing the automatic way
 Drop Testing the manual way
 But more capable

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 Introduction
Vi

 Drop Test simulation Requirements

 Item being dropped
 Object it is dropped on to
 Height of drop G
h
 Acceleration of gravity
 Initial drop velocity

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 Introduction

 Some details…
 Free fall looks good in plots,
but is uninteresting from an
analytical point of view
 Move object until just
touching
 Calculate new velocity Vimpact
 Contact is nonlinear
phenomenon
 Dropping is time dependent

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 Introduction

 Solution:
 Nonlinear Transient Analysis
 Contact
 Probable large deformations
 Possible nonlinear materials

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 Drop Test Simulation

 Two ways to do it:

 Autodesk Nastran In-CAD Automatic Impact Analysis (AIA)
 Easy setup
 Some limits to capabilities
 Manually
 Nonlinear Transient Analysis
 Manual setup
 Wider range of capabilities
 More control over solution

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Drop Testing

Falling object

Path of drop

Floor
 Drop Testing

Projectile Body
• Initial velocity = 0
• Fall acceleration = 386.4

Projectile Path (3D line)

Impacted body
(may be free or constrained)
 Demo…

 Dropping a shelf

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 The manual way

 Dropping using the Nonlinear Transient analysis

 Need more information to set up model
 Contact must be defined
 Part should be located close to impact point
 Define initial velocity
 Set up nonlinear transient
 Time steps
 Duration
 Nonlinear iteration settings

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 Manual Way

 Demo
 Mallet being dropped onto shelf

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 Why use the manual way?

 Easy way limited to a single part

 Hard way required for multi-part assemblies
 More control over analysis times and so forth

 Automatic way is for wimps!

 (Not really)

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 Summary

 Single Part?
 Part not located near impact point?
 Automatic Way
 Multi-Part Assembly?
 Need more control over impact and timing?
 Manual Way
 Manual Way is what the Automatic Way is doing in the
background automatically with AIA

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