Deep Drawing of Square-Shaped Sheet Metal Parts, Part 1: Finite Element Analysis

1993 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Majlessi ◽  
D. Lee

The process of square-cup drawing is modeled employing a simplified finite element analysis technique. In order to make the algorithm computationally efficient, the deformation (total strain) theory of plasticity is adopted. The solution scheme is comprised of specifying a mesh of two-dimensional finite elements with membrane properties over the deformed configuration of the final part geometry. The initial positions of these elements are then computed by minimization of the potential energy, and therefore the strain distributions are determined. In order to verify predictions made by the finite element analysis method, a drawing apparatus is built and various drawing experiments are carried out. A number of circular and square cups are drawn and strain distributions measured. It is observed that there is generally a good agreement between computed and measured results for both axisymmetric and nonaxisymmetric cases.

1981 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 51-68
Author(s):  
Donald Liu ◽  
Abram Bakker

Local structural problems in ships are generally the result of stress concentrations in structural details. The intent of this paper is to show that costly repairs and lay-up time of a vessel can often be prevented, if these problem areas are recognized and investigated in the design stages. Such investigations can be performed for minimal labor and computer costs by using finite-element analysis techniques. Practical procedures for analyzing structural details are presented, including discussions of the results and the analysis costs expended. It is shown that the application of the finite-element analysis technique can be economically employed in the investigation of structural details.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianyin Hu ◽  
Rongqiao Wang ◽  
Guicang Hou

A new lifetime criterion for withdrawal of turbine components from service is developed in this paper based on finite element (FE) analysis and experimental results. Finite element analysis is used to determine stresses in the turbine component during the imposed cyclic loads and analytically predict a fatigue life. Based on the finite element analysis, the critical section is then subjected to a creep-fatigue test, using three groups of full scale turbine components, attached to an actual turbine disc conducted at 750 °C. The experimental data and life prediction results were in good agreement. The creep-fatigue life of this type of turbine component at a 99.87% survival rate is 30 h.


2014 ◽  
Vol 893 ◽  
pp. 314-319
Author(s):  
P. Gurusamy ◽  
S. Balasivanandha Prabu ◽  
R. Paskaramoorthy

This paper discusses the influence of die temperature on the solidification behaviour of A356/SiCp composites fabricated by squeeze casting method. Information on the solidification studies of squeeze cast composites is somewhat scarce. Experiments were carried out by varying the die temperatures for cylindrical shaped composite castings K-type thermocouples were interfaced to the die and the temperature-time history was recorded to construct the cooling curves. The cooling curves are also predicted from the finite element analysis (FEA) software ANSYS 13. The experimental and predicted cooling curves are not in good agreement. In addition to, the experimental and theoretical solidification times are studied. It was understood that the increase in the die temperature decreases the cooling rate.


Author(s):  
Siva C. Chaduvula ◽  
Mikhail J. Atallah ◽  
Jitesh H. Panchal

Designers need a way to overcome information-related risks, including information leakage and misuse by their own collaborators during collaborative product realization. Existing cryptographic techniques aimed at overcoming these information-related risks are computationally expensive and impractical even for moderate problem sizes, and legal approaches such as nondisclosure agreements are not effective. The computational practicality problem is particularly pronounced for computational techniques, such as the finite element analysis (FEA). In this paper, we propose a technique that enables designers to perform simulations, such as FEA computations, without the need for revealing their information to anyone, including their design collaborators. We present a new approach, the secure finite element analysis approach, which enables designers to perform FEA without having to reveal structural/material information to their counterparts even though the computed answer depends on all the collaborators' confidential information. We build secure finite element analysis (sFEA) using computationally efficient protocols implementing a secure codesign (SCD) framework. One of our findings is that the direct implementation of using SCD framework (termed as naïve sFEA) suffers from lack of scalability. To overcome these limitations, we propose hybrid sFEA that implements performance improvement strategies. We document and discuss the experiments we conducted to determine the computational overhead imposed by both naïve and hybrid sFEA. The results indicate that the computational burden imposed by hybrid sFEA makes it challenging for large-scale FEA—our scheme significantly increases the problem sizes that can be handled when compared to implementations using previous algorithms and protocols, but large enough problem sizes will swamp our scheme as well (in some sense this is unavoidable because of the cubic nature of the FEA time complexity).


1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
L S Ong ◽  
A K Soh ◽  
J H Ong

The problem of a local dent on a pressurized pipe is studied in this paper. Two case problems of dent are considered - a plain local dent (a smooth local dent without a surface defect), and a local dent associated with a loss of thickness defect. The strain gauging test and the finite element analysis on the plain local dent showed that the strain distributions in the local dent are different from those of a long and continuous dent. The maximum hoop strain in the local dent is located at the flank of the dent, along the dent axial axis, whereas in the case of the long dent, it is located at the root of the dent. In addition, the peak stress in the local dent is generally lower than that in the long dent. To estimate the stress concentration in the local dent using the analysis for the long dent would be grossly overestimated. The burst pipe tests on 17 dented pipes showed that the pipe failures were generally insensitive to the existence of the local dents. The pipe failures were found to be due to the loss-of-thickness defect. The comparison of results between the burst pipe tests and the plastic collapse formula shows reasonably good agreement.


2013 ◽  
Vol 648 ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
Qi Yin Shi ◽  
Yi Tao Ge ◽  
Li Lin Cao ◽  
Zhao Chang Zhang

In this study, based on the test of the high strength materials of steel-encased concrete composite continuous beam, the ultimate flexural capacity of 8 composite continuous beams are analyzed by using the finite element analysis software ABAQUS. Numerical results show that it is a very good agreement for the load-deflection curves which obtained by finite element method (FEM) and those by the test results, and the error control is less than 8.5%. When selecting and utilizing appropriate cyclic constitutive model, element model and failure criterion of high strength steel and high strength concrete, the accuracy of the calculation can be improved better.


Author(s):  
Y B Park ◽  
D Y Yang

In metal forming, there are problems with recurrent geometric characteristics without explicitly prescribed boundary conditions. In such problems, so-called recurrent boundary conditions must be introduced. In this paper, as a practical application of the proposed method, the precision cold forging of a helical gear (which is industrially useful and geometrically complicated) has been simulated by a three-dimensional rigid-plastic finite element method and compared with the experiment. The application of recurrent boundary conditions to helical gear forging analysis is proved to be effective and valid. The three-dimensional deformed pattern by the finite element analysis is shown, and the forging load is compared with the experimental load. The profiles of the free surface of the workpiece show good agreement between the computation and the experiment.


2012 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takuya Morimoto ◽  
Hiroshi Iizuka

We consider a conformal contact problem between a rubber band and rigid cylinders that involves geometrical and material nonlinearities. The rubber band is assumed to be incompressible, neo-Hookean rubber. From the geometry and elasticity of the band, we present simple formulas to estimate the force–stretch relations and the contact pressure distributions on the cylinder. We show that the theoretical results are in good agreement with those of the finite element analysis when the rubber band is thin enough to be negligible to the bending stiffness. This verifies that the theory can effectively take into account both the material and geometrical nonlinearities of the band under the present conditions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 168781401878002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-chen Lee ◽  
Chen-hao Zhang

The objective of this research was to investigate the effects of material models, element types, and boundary conditions on the consistency of finite element analysis. Two cantilever beams were used; one made of stainless steel SUS301 3/4H and the other made of polymer polyoxymethylene. The load–deflection curves of the two cantilever beams obtained by experiments were compared to those obtained by finite element analysis, where the material models—including bilinear, trilinear, and multi-linear—were used. Four element types—beam, plane stress, shell, and solid—were also employed with the material models to obtain the simulated load–deflection curves of the cantilever beams. It was found that bilinear material models had the stiffest behavior due to their overestimated yield strength. In addition, by applying a finite displacement to simulate the grip of the cantilever beams, the discrepancy between the simulated permanent set and the experimental set could be reduced from 80% to 5%. To sum up, both the selection of the material model and the setup of the boundary conditions are critical for obtaining good agreement between the finite element analysis results and the experimental data.


2012 ◽  
Vol 215-216 ◽  
pp. 941-945
Author(s):  
Jing Chao Zou ◽  
Lian Gwen Wang ◽  
Zhi Qiang Guo ◽  
Wei Hong Chen

When walking robot MiniQuad-1 moves, the motion error is larger. The robot’s structure deformation is obvious. In order to improve the precision of the walking robot, the finite element analysis technique is adopted to research four-legged walking robot MiniQuad-1 in this paper. After the structure of the robot is introduced, the motion error of robot is discussed. The robot kinematics planning is completed based kinematics analysis. Some Motion postures are built using the solidworks. Static analysis of the motion pose is completed by using ansys software for robot MiniQuad-1. According to the analysis results, the robot structure improvement measures are determined. Further, the force and deformation for robot is studied after loading to lay the foundation for expand the robot of subsequent application.


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