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Problem Statement.
Perform combined topology and topography optimization on a disk drive slider suspension to maximize the stiffness and weighted mode. The lower bound constraint on the seventh mode is 12 cycles/ms. Objective function: Constraints: Design variables: Minimize the combined weighted compliance and the weighted modes. 7th Mode > 12 cycles/ms. Element densities and nodes topography.
Exercise
Step 1: Set the User Profile and Import a Finite Element Model.
1. Launch HyperMesh.
A User Profiles dialog will appear.
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4. Select the Import type: FE Model 5. Choose the proper File type: OptiStruct. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Click on the Select Files button and browse for the combined.fem. Click Open. Click Import. Click Close to close the Import tab menu.
Click create. Select the bead params subpanel. For minimum width=, assign a value of 0.4; for draw angle=, 60; and for draw height=, 0.15. Toggle draw direction: to normal to elements. Toggle boundary skip: to load & spc. Activate buffer zone. Click update. We will use 1-plane symmetric beads, as it is the simplest and can be symmetric at the same time. 12. Go to the pattern grouping subpanel and set pattern type: to 1-plane sym. 13. Click anchor node, type 41, and press ENTER.
14. Click first node, type 53, and press ENTER. 15. Click update. 16. Select the bounds subpanel.
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Select the responses panel. For response =, assign the name freq. Change the response type to frequency. For mode number, assign a value of 7. Click create. For response =, assign the name comb. Change the response type to compliance index. Click loadsteps and activate force. Make sure that the option to define normalizing factor is toggled to autonorm. Enter the mode numbers and their corresponding weights using the following chart. Mode 1 2 3 4 5 6 Weight 1.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
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Click control cards and click next twice. Click PARAM. Under Card Image, check MODETRAK. In the card panel, set MODET_V1 to Yes. Click return. Note that the PARAM button is now green, indicating that it is active. 6. Click return to go back to the Analysis page.
7. Click Save.
Note the name and location of the file now displays in the input file: field. 8. Click OptiStruct. This launches an OptiStruct run ain a seperate shell (DOE or UNIX) which appears. If the optimization was successful, no error messages are reported to the shell. The optimization is complete when the line Processing complete appears in the shell.
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Tutorial 18: Combined Topology & Topography Optimization of a Slider Suspension. Step 10: Post-process the Shape Change Result (Topography)
1. Once you see the message Process completed successfully in the command window, close the
command window to return to HyperMesh. 2. Back in HyperMesh, click HyperView (from the OptiStruct panel) to launch HyperView. The HyperView GUI window opens and the results get loaded automatically in HyperView. A Message Log window appears to inform about the successful loading of the model and result files into HyperView. 3. Click Close to close the message window.
4. Click on the Deformed toolbar button . 5. By clicking on the drop-down menus next to each option, for Result type:, select Shape Change(v); for 6. 7. 8. 9.
Scale:, select Scale factor; and for Type:, select Uniform. For Value: 1.0. Below the Undeformed shape: section, click on the drop-down menu next to Show: and select None. Click Apply to display the shape change because of topography optimization. At the bottom of the GUI, click on the name Design or Model Step, to activate the Load Case and Simulation Selection dialog and select the 25th iteration by double-clicking on Iteration 25.
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