Advanced Femap Training

C.R. “Chip” Fricke

Femap Applications Engineer
chip.fricke@ugs.com
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 Advanced Femap Training Topics

f Meshing Techniques
f NX Nastran Dynamics with Femap
f Advanced Nonlinear – SOL 601 and SOL701

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 Meshing Techniques

f Review of Overall Approach to Meshing with Femap

f Geometry Cleanup and Feature Suppression
f Boundary Surface, From Surfaces on Solids command
f Midplane Meshing
f The Femap Surface Remesh API program

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 Femap Meshing Review

Global Setting:
Mesh, Mesh Control,
Default Mesh Size

Solid(s) Surface(s) Curve(s)

Step 1 - Edit Curve from Surface;

Modify, Trim;
Geometry Solid, Slice; Slice
Curve from Surface; Solid, Extend; Break;
Match; Slice along
Geometry, Slice Join; Fillet;
Face; Embed Face;
commands Chamfer
Thicken

Step 2 - Set Mesh Mesh Size on Surface(s);

Size Mesh Size on
Mapped Divisions on
Mesh Size on Curves
Mesh, Mesh Surface; Mesh Points on
Solids Custom Size
Control, Surface; Approach on
along Curve
commands Surface

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 Solid, Geometry, Cleanup command

f Use the Advanced button to set

individual Cleaning, Small
Feature, Geometry
Simplification, Edge Heal, and
Surface Heal and Stitch options.
f Messages window will list IDs of
problem surfaces and curves

Note: This operation may remove any surface curves,

curve divisions, etc. In addition, if this operation
results in a change to the solid(s), mesh sizing will
need to be reapplied.
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 Feature Suppression

f Physically remove features with the Geometry, Solid,

Remove Face command.
f Select faces that form a continuous set of faces

f Use the Mesh, Mesh Control, Feature Suppression

command to manually remove sliver surfaces.

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 Geometry, Boundary Surface,
From Surfaces on Solid command

f Takes the surfaces you select, and uses the enclosing

outer curves to form a regular boundary surface.
f The surfaces must be able to be stitched into a solid.
f This feature works best with surfaces that have small
to moderate curvature.
f Can be used to remove sliver surfaces by selecting
surfaces that surround the sliver.

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 Midplane Meshing

f Femap’s automatic
midplane extraction
creates separate sheet
solids for all midplane
surfaces.
f Use the Geometry,
Solid, Stitch command to
create a single sheet
solid
f Makes surface/curve
mesh sizing easier
and creates
coincident meshes
on the edges of the
surfaces.

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 Femap Surface Remesh API program

f Allows interactive remeshing of triangular surfaces by applying:

f Surface refinement Growth Factor

f Modifying the Approach on Surface technique

f Increasing/decreasing number of elements on an edge

f Run the compiled API script

femap\api\Surface Remesh\
FEMAP Surface Remesh.exe
f Access easily via the
v9.3 Custom Tools menu

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 NX Nastran Dynamics with Femap

f Analysis types supported

f Dynamic Load Set Options
f Analysis Set Options
f Femap Functions for Dynamics

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 NX Nastran Dynamics with Femap

f Normal Modes

f Advanced Dynamics Solution Sequences

f Time varying excitation of the system

f Transient Dynamic/Time History

f Frequency dependent loading

f Frequency/Harmonic Response

f Determine “peak response” to

transient loading
f Response Spectrum

f Random Response

f Examples of each type are included in the Femap Examples

documentation
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 Setting Dynamic Load Set Options

f Model, Load, Dynamic Analysis command

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 Direct Transient Dynamics Load Set
Options

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 Modal Transient Load Set Options

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 Direct Frequency Load Set Options

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 Modal Frequency
Load Set Options

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 Analysis Set Manager - Nastran Bulk
Data Options for Dynamics

f MODACC –
Modal Acceleration Method
f DDRMM off –
Automatically enabled
when MODACC is
turned on
f RESVEC –
Control Residual Vectors

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 Nastran Modal/Buckling
Analysis Set Options

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 Femap Functions used in Dynamics
Analyses

f vs. Time
f vs. Frequency
f Structural Damping
vs Frequency
f Critical Damping vs
Frequency
f Q Damping vs
Frequency

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 Advanced Nonlinear Analysis

f Advanced Nonlinear Support with Femap

f Nonlinear Contact Properties
f Analysis Set Management of Advanced Nonlinear
Solutions
f Example – SOL601

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 Advanced Nonlinear Solution
Support with Femap

f SOL601 and SOL701

f Advanced Nonlinear
Statics
f Advanced Nonlinear
Transient
f Advanced Nonlinear
Explicit

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 Advanced Nonlinear Contact
Properties

f Managed with Connection, Properties command or with

the Model Info tree.

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 NXSTRAT Solver Parameters in
Analysis Set Manager

f Advanced Nonlinear
Static
f Advanced Nonlinear
Transient

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 NXSTRAT Solver Parameters in
Analysis Set Manager

f Advanced Nonlinear Explicit

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 Thank you!

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