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Thermal
stress analysis of a bimetallic
switch
Stefano Morlacchi
September 2014
Preliminaries
- The coupled simulation is created as tutorial and you will be thoroughly guided
to create the model.. The sequential approach is proposed as a workshop and
only the main guidelines will be provided.
- Density
- Conductivity
- Specific Heat
1. Go into the Property Module and click the Create Material icon. In the Edit
Material dialog box, name the material Steel.. From the material editors menu
bar, select Thermal Conductivity.
Conductivity Enter a value of 0.015 W/mm/C.
W/mm/ From the
material editors menu bar, select Thermal Specific Heat. Enter a value of
420,000 J/tonn/C. Select Mechanical Elasticity Elastic,, enter
e a Young
Modulus value of 210,000
,000 MPa and a Poisson coefficient equal to 0.35.
0.35 Select
Mechanical Expansion and enter a value of 1.1E-5 1/C. Select General
Density and enter a value of 8E-9 tonn/mm3. Click OK to exit the material editor.
2. Enter the step module and create a static general step called Step-
Interference with duration of 1s. Turn on the nlgeom parameter and enter 0.01
as initial increment size. This step will be used to solve the interference between
the two instances of the model.
Create now two coupled thermal-displacement
thermal steps called Step-Heating
Step and
Step-Cooling with duration of 1 s and 10 s, respectively. Select transient
response, enter 0.01 as initial increment size and 5 as maximum allowable
temperature change per increment. In the step-Heating, a body heat flux
condition will be applied to the strip to increase its temperature while in the last
step, strip temperature will decrease due to a surface film condition applied to the
external surfaces. Environmental temperature is set at 20 C.
3. In the Field Output requested by default, make sure that the NT (nodal
temperature) and HFL (heat flux) variables have been selected for all the steps.
steps
6. Interactions
Enter the Interaction module and create a mechanical interaction between the
PIN and the STRIP and a surface film condition to model the cooling down of the
strip due to convection.
1. Mechanical interaction.
interaction Create a new surface to surface interaction at Step-
Interference, called Int-FIT
FIT, selecting the Pins Surf-INT as master surface and
the Strips surface Surf-INT
INT as slave surface. Click on the Create an Interaction
Property icon at the bottom of the Edit Interaction dialog box as shown in the
following picture. Call the interaction
interac property as Mechanical and select Contact
as Type in the dialog box. Enter 0.2
0. as friction coefficient in the Tangential
behaviour option and Hard contact as Normal behaviour.
behaviour. Click ok and select the
Mechanical interaction property in the Edit interaction
interaction dialog box. Click on
interference fit options and select Gradually
Gradually remove slave node overclosure
during the step.
2. Thermal interaction. Create a film condition interaction to model the heat lost
from the strip due to convection with the external air.. Create a new interaction
called Int-Convection in Step-Cooling,
Step select Surface Film condition as Type. In
the Edit Interaction dialog box, select all the external surfaces as Region,
Embedded coefficient as definition type, enter 0.0028 as typical film
fi coefficient
with air, enter 20 as sink temperature and Instantaneous as amplitude. Click OK.
8. Job module
Enter the Job module and create a new Job called Coupled. Submit
ubmit the job and
monitor the convergence.