TASK SESSION 5

INTRODUCTION TO MESHING

1. a) What bodies can be represented as 1D, 2D elements?

b) what are the stress situations for using 2D element?
c) in bullet points State the advantages of modeling a part as 2D element rather
than 3D?
1.a)
1D 2D
Truss, rod with axial load only, beam Surface objects like car or plane body,
Cable under tension, or any object that thin sheet metal, or any body that has
has loading and deformation along one loadings and deformation in plane of
of its three axis. the object.

1.b) plane stress: loading and deformation are in the same plane although there
might be deformation in the out plane.
e.g., thin plate/disc subjected to in plane/centrifugal forces.
Plane strain: loading and deformation are in plane but no deformation or strain in
the out plane although there might be stress in the out plane.
e.g., long structures with constant cross section such as reservoir dam.

1.c) – less elements than 3d model with high quality.

- short run time with high accuracy results.
- geometry easy to handle and edit and mesh is easier to control.
- useful in problems that deals with nonlinear deformation or design optimization
that requires several iterations and could be very time consuming if modelled in
3D.
2. open the .STEP files given to you in Ansys WB & please reread the slides
carefully to answer the following:

NOTE: Please insert different mesh component for each part in the same project
similar to what have been discussed in the session (screenshot the mesh
and add it to the answer for part a & b).
a) The best suitable method for meshing each part is and why:

- part 1: patch independent tetra it allows for the generation of good quality
elements without being confined with faces boundaries, also the tetrahedron
elements captures the curves better than hexa elements so it is understandable
to use tetrahedron method and this explaines the good skewness value in the
figure.

- part 2: patch independent creates less number of elements with average

skeweness better than multizone in second figure , but it ignores the edges of the
circular rods and models them badly, with multizone have a better lower
maximum skewness and does a better job in capturing the circular edge so it is a
better mesh method for this part.

- part 3: tetrahedral method because shape is unsweepable so sweep and

multizone wont work so the only option is tetra method with patch confirming
because it generates better skewness.

b) Remesh part 1 & 2 using sweep method only.

Part 1: by default this part is unsweepable but it can be swept if you divided the
shape into 6 parts (by plane) in the design modular so that each part can be
swept.

Part 2: same situation here, this part can be divided once into 5 parts then a
swept mesh can be created for all of them.
3. open the missile .STEP part that was given to you in session in the same project
in different mesh component and remesh it using all available methods and state
the effect that you observe from each method:

NOTE: before inserting new method suppress the last method that was applied
but do not delete it.

a) Automatic method.

b) sweep method.

c) tetrahedron

- patch confirming

- patch independent

- patch independent + defeaturing

d) multizone.

- free mesh type: - Tet

- hex dominant.

- hex core.

Please submit your answers in PDF form including pictures and your project
following the steps to save it:

File > archive > save the project

Save both the project and the pdf by your name then upload them to the drive
link that will be given to you.

You are allowed to use this word template to write your answers.