Analysis of machine elements using Solidwork Stimulation Whe

Analysis of machine elements using Solidwork Stimulation

When the stress plot is generated on the deformed shape, Solid Works scales the maximum deformation to 10% of the diagonal of the bounding box of the model. What does this mean? Explain briefly. When the displacement is animated, what is being shown? Why is it \'looping\' and what does that mean? Why does the strain plot appear unsmooth, or pixilated? Explain briefly.

Solution

(c) The deformation scale refers to the scale factor that the program uses to scale the deformed shape of the model. The value of the scale factor depends on the model’s largest dimension and the calculated deformations.

For example, a scale factor of 50 means that the largest deformation calculated by SimulationXpress is shown as 50% larger than the largest dimension of the smallest boundary box that surrounds the model.

A larger deformation scale factor helps you visualize deflections that are a lot smaller compared to the original dimensions of the model.

(d) The resultant displacement plot is displayed through animation.

Automatic looping can help solve meshing problems automatically, but you can adjust its settings for a particular model.