meshing together seperate parts with different material types
meshing together seperate parts with different material types
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Alright, I'll admit I don't know how to do something that should be very simple and basic for everyone else who knows how to use I-deas. I'm a newbie and I can't find this in the tutorials or help files.
I have two parts. A small piece of steel glued inside a bulky block of epoxy.
I want to FEM them together, but only seem to be able to mesh them seperately. And I trust that when I try to apply the load to the steel, it won't transfer to the epoxy, if the errors don't get me first.
And I tried meshing the entire assembly, but from there I don't know how to seperate out the different material types.
If this was in ANSYS, I would just use the GLUE command, and mesh seperately with different MATTYPE definitions, knowing the nodes would be coupled and overlapped when fremeshing.
How do you do this in I-Deas?
I have two parts. A small piece of steel glued inside a bulky block of epoxy.
I want to FEM them together, but only seem to be able to mesh them seperately. And I trust that when I try to apply the load to the steel, it won't transfer to the epoxy, if the errors don't get me first.
And I tried meshing the entire assembly, but from there I don't know how to seperate out the different material types.
If this was in ANSYS, I would just use the GLUE command, and mesh seperately with different MATTYPE definitions, knowing the nodes would be coupled and overlapped when fremeshing.
How do you do this in I-Deas?





RE: meshing together seperate parts with different material types
I hope his helps.
umit
RE: meshing together seperate parts with different material types
Another way would be joining the parts via partition. This produces two volumes sharing surfaces (I think umit suggested similar procedure). Volumes can be then meshed separately with different material props.
Liro
RE: meshing together seperate parts with different material types
RE: meshing together seperate parts with different material types
Thanks for the reply. I'll try your and Liro's method when I get a chance. Earlier I tried picking the individual nodes and coupling their degree of freedom - which I think I did correctly. Then after applying the load, followed by what I thought were the b/c constraints, I expected to be able to run the solution. Instead I got an error message saying no boundary conditions (b/c) were applied.
I'll figure it out. Thanks for the advice.