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Agenda
Bottom-Up Meshing
Demonstration 2: Bottom Up Meshing
Meshing Approach
Approaches to creating a mesh Bottom-up approach: Traditional approach is to construct mesh to create geometry
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Meshing Toolbar
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Element shape options available for free meshing three-dimensional regions: Tetrahederal
nodes copied from the source side to each element layer and to the target side
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source side
connecting sides
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hole
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isolated edges
isolated vertices
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partitions
Limit arcs to 90 or less to avoid concavities along sides and at edges. For example, the model shown at right has been partitioned so that a single region with a 180 arc becomes two regions with 90 arcs.
partitions
partition
partition
The angles between sides should be as close to 90 as possible; partition to eliminate angles greater than 150. The ideal region is the cube shown at right: the angles between sides are 90.
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Meshable
Mapped meshing applied indirectly by meshing a region and allowing Abaqus/CAE to apply mapped meshing where appropriate
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structured-meshing technique
free-meshing technique
swept-meshing technique
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If mesh compatibility is required between two or more bodies, first try to create a single part that contains all the bodies.
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tied surfaces
Multiple part instances can be merged into a single part instance in the Assembly module. Different material regions can be separated using partitions. If the two objects must be modeled as separate parts, consider using tie constraints to glue two regions together. Alternatively, merge instance meshes into a conforming orphan mesh. Using tie constraints to glue the cylinder to the block: exploded view of assembly (top) and mesh
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Side 1
Side 2
Part mesh
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STL file (via plug-in) An imported mesh is called an orphan mesh because it has no associated parent geometry. Native mesh A mesh generated for a geometric part in Abaqus/CAE will maintain its association with the parent geometry; this is a native mesh.
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the coordinate changes (offsets dx, dy, dz, dr, dq, etc.). Sequential incremental changes can be applied without having to reselect the nodes. For native meshes, an option is available for projecting the modified nodes back to the geometry.
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Elements that fail solver checks with errors are highlighted in MAGENTA.
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Elements that fail solver checks with warnings are highlighted in YELLOW.
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Repairing orphan/native meshes manually Split a quad into two triangles Combine two triangles into a quad Swap diagonal for two adjacent triangles Collapse an edge of a triangle or quad
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Improved mesh
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2.
Convert the native mesh into an orphan mesh part. (Mesh module: Mesh>Create Mesh Part)
3. Automatically collapse short edges in the orphan shell mesh. 4. Manually repair any remaining bad elements or gaps.
Hollow interior
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structured region
sweep region
unmeshable using a topdown approach
Objective is to fill regions with hex elements using an incremental, user-controlled meshing strategy. Maintains association of the mesh with the geometry whenever possible.
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Connecting Side
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Target Side
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Yellow mesh entities are already associated with the geometric entities. Loads, BCs, etc. will be transferred to only these mesh entities.
source
Vector (direction)
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Current limitation: Analysis checks are not currently supported for beam, gasket, and cohesive elements.
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