Browsers supply a great deal of view-related functionality in HyperMesh by listing the parts of a model in a tabular and/or tree-based format, and providing controls inside the table
that allow you to alter the display of model parts.
Perform automatic checks on CAD models, and identify potential issues with geometry that may slow down the meshing
process using the Verification and Comparison tools.
OSSmooth is a semi-automated design interpretation software, facilitating the recovery of a modified geometry resulting
from a structural optimization, for further use in the design process and FEA reanalysis.
Topology optimization results are interpreted to provide an iso-density surface based on the volumetric density information
of a topology optimization, which is conducted using OptiStruct.
FEA topology for reanalysis provides an iso-density surface based on the volumetric density information from a topology
optimization. Through tetrameshing for 3D models and inheriting boundary conditions, the results from FEA topology can
be used for quick reanalysis.
The FEA topography option in OSSmooth allows the results from an OptiStruct topography optimization to be interpreted as one or two level beads and recover boundary conditions upon geometry extraction.
An option for iso surface is also provided for combined use, which performs the same functionality as FEA topology, with
FEA topography.
OSSmooth is a semi-automated design interpretation software, facilitating the recovery of a modified geometry resulting
from a structural optimization, for further use in the design process and FEA reanalysis.
FEA topology for reanalysis provides an iso-density surface based on the volumetric density information from a topology
optimization. Through tetrameshing for 3D models and inheriting boundary conditions, the results from FEA topology can
be used for quick reanalysis.
FEA topology for reanalysis provides an iso-density surface based on the volumetric
density information from a topology optimization. Through tetrameshing for 3D models and
inheriting boundary conditions, the results from FEA topology can be used for quick
reanalysis.
FEA topology can handle both shell and solid elements. For 3D models, the recovered
iso-surface can be tetrameshed-by-property automatically. FEA topology provides two options
for the processing of non-design elements:
Keep smooth narrow layer
Retain an artificial layer of elements around the non-design space in the
interpretation.
Split all quads
Split quad elements in the non-design space, if present, to generate a tetra
connection between design and non-design regions.
FEA topology preserves boundary conditions by inheriting them from the original model
(<prefix>.fem). Those boundary conditions unattached to
nodes/elements after geometry recovery are deleted to ensure reanalysis.
Figure 1
and Figure 2 show FEA topology for reanalysis with following input data definition:
File
block
Density threshold
0.300
Figure 1 was run with Keep smooth narrow layer around disabled and Split to quads enabled.
Figure 2 was run with Keep smooth narrow layer around enabled, and Split all quads
disabled. This approach creates a layer of elements around the non-design region and
pyramids around the quad elements, if quads exist, to connect to the design space
tetrahedral elements.
Tetramesh will be applied on the iso-surface result if there is one close volume at least.
The advantages of the tetramesh in FEA topology include:
Tetramesh can be performed by property.
The flexibility of controlling the number of tetramesh retries by perturbing the
density threshold value, in cases where tetramesh sometimes fails.