Lab Report

Finite Element Analysis

Lab

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY

PAKISTAN NAVY ENGINEERING COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Fall-2024

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 LAB# 01
OBJECTIVE: To perform a static structural simulation on a simple rectangular geometry.
STEP 1: Open Workbench
 Open Workbench
 Double-click on Static Structural Simulation from the left column

STEP 2: Create a simple geometry on design modeler.

 Under “Sketching” tab, choose rectangle and create a rectangle.
 Under “Dimensions” tab, give 2 sides a dimension of your own choice.

 Under “Extrude” tab, give a depth and extrude it to a depth of your own choice.

STEP 3: Create Material in Engineering Data

 Under “Engineering Data” tab in Workbench, add a new material of your preferred name.
 From the properties in the left column, choose “Isotropic Elasticity” and assign values
to Poisson’ Ratio and Young’s Modulus.

STEP 4: Assign Boundary Conditions

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  Open Mechanical Model from Workbench
 Assign added material from “Solid” under “Geometry” tab

 Right-click on “Mesh” and click on “Generate Mesh

 Right-click on Static Structural and assign boundary conditions; fixed support
to your preferred face and force of some magnitude to your preferred face
 Right-click on “Solution” and add required solutions. Here, Total deformation and
Equivalent Von Mises have been added

STEP 5: Run the simulation

 Click on “Solve” by right-clicking on the solution tab
 Evaluate the results

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 LAB# 02
OBJECTIVE: To perform a static structural simulation on an I Beam Cross-Section.
STEP 1: Open Workbench
 Open Workbench
 Double-click on Static Structural Simulation from the left column
STEP 2: Create a simple geometry on design modeler.
 Under “Concept” tab, choose I beam and create a I beam.
 Under “Dimensions” tab, give dimensions of your own choice.
 Under “Extrude” tab, give a depth and extrude it to a depth of your own choice.

STEP 3: Create a Material in Engineering Data

 Under “Engineering Data” tab in Workbench, add a new material of your preferred name.
 From the properties in the left column, choose “Isotropic Elasticity” and assign values
to Poisson’ Ratio and Young’s Modulus.
 The Concrete and Aluminum alloy materials were used to test out the I beam structure.

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STEP 4: Assign Boundary Conditions
 Open Mechanical Model from Workbench
 Assign added material from “Solid” under “Geometry” tab
 Right-click on “Mesh” and click on “Generate Mesh
 Right-click on Static Structural and assign boundary conditions; fixed support
to your preferred face and force of some magnitude to your preferred face
 Right-click on “Solution” and add required solutions. Here, Total deformation

STEP 5: Run the simulation

 Click on “Solve” by right-clicking on the solution tab
 Evaluate the results

Concrete Max deformation: 5.1358e-003 mm

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Aluminum Max Deformation: 1.1694e-002 mm

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 LAB# 03
OBJECTIVE: To perform a static structural simulation on an T Beam Cross-Section.
STEP 1: Open Workbench
 Open Workbench
 Double-click on Static Structural Simulation from the left column
STEP 2: Create a simple geometry on design modeler.
 Under “Concept” tab, choose T beam and create a T beam.
 Under “Dimensions” tab, give dimensions of your own choice.
 Under “Extrude” tab, give a depth and extrude it to a depth of your own choice.

STEP 3: Create a Material in Engineering Data

 Under “Engineering Data” tab in Workbench, add a new material of your preferred name.
 From the properties in the left column, choose “Isotropic Elasticity” and assign values
to Poisson’ Ratio and Young’s Modulus.
 The Aluminum alloy material was used to test out the T beam structure.

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STEP 4: Assign Boundary Conditions
 Open Mechanical Model from Workbench
 Assign added material from “Solid” under “Geometry” tab
 Right-click on “Mesh” and click on “Generate Mesh
 Right-click on Static Structural and assign boundary conditions; fixed support
to your preferred face and force of some magnitude to your preferred face
 Right-click on “Solution” and add required solutions. Here, Total deformation

STEP 5: Run the simulation

 Click on “Solve” by right-clicking on the solution tab
 Evaluate the results

Max Deformation
Max Strain

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 LAB# 04
OBJECTIVE: To perform a static structural simulation on an L Beam Cross-Section.
STEP 1: Open Workbench
 Open Workbench
 Double-click on Static Structural Simulation from the left column
STEP 2: Create a simple geometry on design modeler.
 Under “Concept” tab, choose L beam and create a L beam.
 Under “Dimensions” tab, give dimensions of your own choice.

 Under “Extrude” tab, give a depth and extrude it to a depth of your own choice.

STEP 3: Create a Material in Engineering Data

 Under “Engineering Data” tab in Workbench, add a new material of your preferred name.
 From the properties in the left column, choose “Isotropic Elasticity” and assign values
to Poisson’ Ratio and Young’s Modulus.
 The Aluminum alloy material was used to test out the L beam structure.

STEP 4: Assign Boundary Conditions

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  Open Mechanical Model from Workbench
 Assign added material from “Solid” under “Geometry” tab
 Right-click on “Mesh” and click on “Generate Mesh
 Right-click on Static Structural and assign boundary conditions; fixed support
to your preferred face and force of some magnitude to your preferred face
 Right-click on “Solution” and add required solutions.

STEP 5: Run the simulation

 Click on “Solve” by right-clicking on the solution tab
 Evaluate the results

Max Deformation

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 LAB# 05
OBJECTIVE: To perform a static structural simulation on a Cantilever Beam.
STEP 1: Open Workbench
 Open the software Workbench RS 2019.
 Select Static Structural Simulation from the left column

STEP 2: Create a simple geometry on design modeler.

 Under “Sketching” tab, choose rectangle and create a rectangle.
 Under “Dimensions” tab, give 2 sides a dimension of 2000mm*1000mm.
 Under “Extrude” tab, give a depth and extrude it to a depth of 500mm.

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STEP 3: Create a Material in Engineering Data
 Under “Engineering Data” tab in Workbench, add a new material of your preferred name.
 From the properties in the left column, choose “Isotropic Elasticity” and assign values
to Poisson’ Ratio and Young’s Modulus.

STEP 4: Assign Boundary Conditions

 Open Mechanical Model from Workbench.
 Assign added material from “Solid” under “Geometry” tab
 Right-click on “Mesh” and click on “Generate Mesh
 Right-click on Static Structural and assign boundary conditions; fixed support
to your preferred face and force of some magnitude to your preferred face
 Right-click on “Solution” and add required solution equivalent (Von Misses) stress.

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STEP 5: Run the simulation
 Click on “Solve” by right-clicking on the solution tab
 Analysis of the object will be shown with minimum and maximum points experiencing stress
 Evaluate the results

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 LAB# 06
OBJECTIVE: MESH CONVERGENCE ON AN OBJECT SIMULATION (L BEAM)
STEP 1:
Open Workbench and drag Static Structural to the work area.
STEP 2:
Add Custom Material. Go to Engineering Data and add a new material along with giving the
desired properties. Given properties were;
Property Value
Young’s Modulus (GPa) 1918
Poisson’s Ratio 0.3

STEP 3:
Open Design Modeler. Click on Concept Tab and select L beam. Generate it after giving it
dimensions and extrude it to a desired length.

STEP 4:
Give Fillets. Go to Radius Blend tab and select fixed radius. Chosen radius was 0.01m and the
final geometry was as shown.

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STEP 5: Open Mechanical Modeler to apply boundary conditions and generate mesh. Under mesh, select required mesh
(like mesh shape, element size etc.) or keep as default and generate mesh.

STEP 6: Insert force and fixed support and give boundary conditions. Given boundary conditions can be
seen from the picture below.

STEP 6: RESULTS. Under Solution Tab, add von mises stress and solve the simulation. Shown below is
a comparison of various loads and their corresponding stress behavior. Pictures of one can be seen as an
example.

RESULT TABLE
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 Force (N) Stress (MPa)
200 0.3852
400 0.7704
600 0.89692
800 1.1959
1000 1.4949

RESULT GRAPH: RESULT GRAPH WAS CODED ON PYTHON LANGUAGE

STEP 7: Mesh convergence was performed by changing the percent until the mesh converged and more
accurate approximation was achieved. Mesh was converged at 20% in this scenario.

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 LAB# 07
OBJECTIVE: Comparison of stresses for various loads on sharp and fillet object (T- beam).
STEP 1: Open Workbench
 Open Workbench
 Select Static Structural Simulation from the left column

STEP 2: Create a simple geometry on design modeler.

 Under“Sketch” tab, choose concept tab.

 Select T-Beam.
 Under “Dimensions” tab, give dimensions.
 Under“Extrude” tab, give a depth and extrude it.

STEP 3: Create a Material in Engineering Data

 Under“Engineering Data” tab in Workbench, add anew material of your preferred name.
 From the properties in the left column, choose “Isotropic Elasticity” and assign values
to Poisson’ Ratio and Young’s Modulus.
 The Aluminum alloy material was used to test out the T-Beam structure.

STEP 4: Assign Boundary Conditions

 Open Mechanical Model from Workbench.
 Assign added material from “Solid” under “Geometry” tab
 Right-click on “Mesh” and click on “Generate Mesh
 Right-click on Static Structural and assign boundary conditions; fixed support
to your preferred face and force of some magnitude to your preferred face
 Right-click on “Solution” and add required solution equivalent (Von Misses) stress.
 comparison of various loads and their corresponding stress behavior.

Loads Stress
500 Pa 78097
1000 Pa 1.5619e5
1500 Pa 2.3429e5
2500 Pa 3.9049e5
3500 Pa 5.4668e5

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STEP 5: Apply Fillet
 Go to Radius Blend tab
 Select fixed radius and choose radius of your choice.
 Right-click on “Solution” and add required solution equivalent (Von Misses) stress.
 comparison of various loads and their corresponding stress behavior.

Loads Stress
500 Pa 2.2973e5
1000 Pa 4.5946e5
1500 Pa 6.892e5
2500 Pa 1.1487e6
3500 Pa 1.6081e6

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 LAB# 08
OBJECTIVE: To perform a static structural compression test simulation on a hexagonal
Cross- Section.
STEP 1: Open Workbench
 Open Workbench
 Double-click on Static Structural Simulation from the left column
STEP 2: Create a simple geometry on design modeler.
 Under“Sketch” tab, choose polygon and create 6-sided polygon.
 Under “Dimensions” tab, give dimensions of your own choice.

 Under“Extrude” tab, give a depth and extrude it to a depth of your own choice.

STEP 3: Create a Material in Engineering Data

 Under“Engineering Data” tab in Workbench, add anew material of your preferred name.
 From the properties in the left column, choose “Isotropic Elasticity” and assign values
to Poisson’ Ratio and Young’s Modulus.
 The Aluminum alloy material was used to test out the hexagonal structure.

STEP 4: Assign Boundary Conditions

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  Open Mechanical Model from Workbench
 Assign added material from “Solid” under “Geometry” tab
 Right-click on “Mesh” and click on “Generate Mesh
 Right-click on Static Structural and assign boundary conditions; fixed support
to your preferred face and force of some magnitude to your preferred face
 Right-click on “Solution” and add required solutions.

STEP 5: Run the simulation

 Click on “Solve” by right-clicking on the solution tab
 Evaluate the results
The mesh convergence was set as the solution and it showed that themesh did not
converge at 10%

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 LAB# 09
OBJECTIVE: To perform a static structural compression test simulation on a hexagonal
Cross- Section.
STEP 1: Open Workbench
 Open Workbench
 Double-click on Static Structural Simulation from the left column
STEP 2: Create a simple geometry on design modeler.
 Under “Sketch” tab, choose polygon and create 6-sided polygon.
 Under “Dimensions” tab, give dimensions of your own choice.

 Under “Extrude” tab, give a depth and extrude it to a depth of your own choice.

STEP 3: Create a Material in Engineering Data

 Under “Engineering Data” tab in Workbench, add a new material of your preferred name.
 From the properties in the left column, choose “Isotropic Elasticity” and assign values
to Poisson’ Ratio and Young’s Modulus.
 The Aluminum alloy material was used to test out the hexagonal structure.

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STEP 4: Assign Boundary Conditions
 Open Mechanical Model from Workbench
 Assign added material from “Solid” under “Geometry” tab
 Right-click on “Mesh” and click on “Generate Mesh
 Right-click on Static Structural and assign boundary
conditions; fixed support to your preferred face and force of
some magnitude to your preferred face
 Right-click on “Solution” and add required solutions.

STEP 5: Run the simulation

 Click on “Solve” by right-clicking on the solution tab
 Evaluate the results
The mesh convergence was set as the solution and it showed that the
mesh converged at 20%

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