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Asked 9th Feb, 2018

gannath Kuppusamy
Ramakrishna Engineering College
explain me how to do element birth and death techniques in ansys apdl
to simulate Welding?
t but i can't understand the topic. Please help me

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rt Turgut Senol 3rd Oct, 2022

caeli University

erts,

element birth / death technique in single pass welding simulation or this

ould be used for multi-pass welding simulation?

(1)

en George 9th Feb, 2018

de Group

might already know, solves essentially the equation [u] =[K]-1[F]. where
epresent Displacement, Stiffness and Load.

alled Stiffness Matrix composed of the stiffness of each individual

ment birth and death is simply setting these individual stiffness to zero
e Young's Modulus to 0. Well not exactly to zero.. it multiplies the
ulus with a factor of 10-6. So numerically speaking...0.

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ulate solder joints and quite often I need to include the soldering step
ning material (in my case solder and your case.. whatever you are using
liquid and offers no structural stiffness. So this is an ideal application for
h and death.

y to implement this is by creating a named selection of the weld.. say

u are done

bout the reference temperatures you provide for your killed element or
n into convergence issues. If this is the case, thats a topic for another

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en George 9th Feb, 2018

de Group

might already know, solves essentially the equation [u] =[K]-1[F]. where
epresent Displacement, Stiffness and Load.

alled Stiffness Matrix composed of the stiffness of each individual

ment birth and death is simply setting these individual stiffness to zero
e Young's Modulus to 0. Well not exactly to zero.. it multiplies the
ulus with a factor of 10-6. So numerically speaking...0.

ulate solder joints and quite often I need to include the soldering step
ning material (in my case solder and your case.. whatever you are using
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liquid and offers no structural stiffness. So this is an ideal application for

h and death.

y to implement this is by creating a named selection of the weld.. say

u are done

bout the reference temperatures you provide for your killed element or
n into convergence issues. If this is the case, thats a topic for another

lps.
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gannath Kuppusamy 9th Feb, 2018

Ramakrishna Engineering College

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va Tourang 21st Aug, 2018

irkabir University of Technology

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se explain the reference temperature?

ng a fillet weld and i have a problem with temperature distribution.

eld metal in both sides before welding, during the first pass because of
ment on the other side, almost no heat transfer to the other side.

when i choose 25 for reference temperature,but when i don't put any

mperature temperature transfer but the minimum temperature is so high.

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ndipan Baruah 18th Oct, 2021

ian Institute of Technology Roorkee

mall catch here, which I fail to understand.

hen we kill the elements, they offer no structural stiffness, load or

nditions.

ving the FE equation, it will be found that some non-zero displacements,

tresses appear for those killed elements.

e logic behind this? Are these displacements fictitious?

ental FE analysis, we need to carry forward the displacements of one

solve the next load step.

tion is, what do we do with these fictitious displacements in this case?

nguo Yang 2nd Dec, 2021

ejiang University of Technology

an read the paper "

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azarika
a 3-D plate of Titanium alloy which is to be deposited layer-wise by a
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t Flux on the top face of the first element in the form of a 2-D Gaussian

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first load step.

e analysis and repeat step 3,4,5 for the second element and solve the
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een able to obtain a proper melt pool and the temperature of the model
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vate the 1step elements as well as 2step elements also?

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o have the moving heat source going along the y axis in the new
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source moving along the y-axis in the global coordinate system (0).

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ELEM,,NUM,MAX

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3**0.5)*F*Q)/(A*B*C*3.14*(3.14**0.5))

(-3*(Z/A)**2))*(exp(-3*(X/B)**2))*(exp(-3*(CSI/C)**2))

PART2

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he elements deactivated by ANSYS APDL (via EKILL), at one point in
e process, remain in the matrix, in the next step, when a new matrix is
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EXTRACT NODAL AND ELEMENTAL DATA FROM ANSYS TO BE
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, 14

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a file in MATLAB

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ro Sergi
to implement a model capable to simulate a welding process using birth
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elements in the first step and alive it in the second step, the command
ng is the follow

part1

part1

ane77 and conta172 elements which support birth and death tecnique.

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the error? the output using this code is not the one that I desired, infact
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ted model from solidworks and glued all the volumes.

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selecting nodes lying inside the cirle, it is selecting

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un, 2019
adiola
simulate the evaporation process of a material killing evaporated

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ermal in order to be executed Previously to the ANSYS SOLVE.
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!! write all results in file

L !! You must explicitly set the Newton-Raphson option

s,active,,solu,ncmls !! cumulative number of load steps

gt,0,then !! if this is after the first time step

elting_Elements !! Element component/named selection to be checked

ect nodes from elements

4 !! Set Tolerance

MP,1.5,2000 !! Reselect nodes which are in a melting Temperature

olerance to default

e,node,,count !! number of nodes which are in the temperature range

gt,0,then

m,elem,,count !! number of elements that contain nodes within the range

gt,0,then

ill elements with a node in the range

lect all elements

load step

b,0 !! safe the result in the in-memory database

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ommand file checks if a node of a component has reached a critical

value. When this is the case, the element containing that node is killed.

values of the first load step are saved in the in-memory database in
e access to hem in the next step.

uestions on the current code

as tested and had some issues and errors:

,noeldb,0 command does not work due to a distributed ANSYS solution.

lternative solution for that issue other than running the simulation on one

ause of the previously mentioned problem, the temperature measured at

lways 0 because nothing is saved in the Database.

ent the code is executed every “Load Step” but it should be executed at
ep of the simulation. For the moment, no solution for this issue was

give me some suggestions?

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thickness of the large diameter bowl-shaped tube-sheet is relatively

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