This class will raise your SolidWorks Simulation FEA skills to the next level! It offers hands-on experience on the use of SolidWorks Simulation nonlinear module. The two-day course provides an overview on a wide range of nonlinear structural/mechanical analysis topics. You will learn how to deal with models that exhibit large displacements and/or yielding, discuss and practice the use of many material models available in SolidWorks Simulation and, most importantly, how to drive a nonlinear analysis to successful completion.

Course Outline

Lesson 1 : Geometric Nonlinearities

• Large displacements problems
• Large strain formulation (rubber-like materials)

Lesson 2 : Material Nonlinearities

• Nonlinear elasticity
• Hyperelasticity (Mooney-Rivlin, Ogden)
  
• Plasticity (von Mises, isotropic/kinematic/mixed hardening rules)
  
• Temperature dependent material properties
  
• Visco-elasticity and creep
• Contact (Boundary) Nonlinearities
• 3D nonlinear gap/contact analysis (with or without material nonlinearities).

Lesson 3 : Numerical Procedures

• Solution control techniques (force, displacement, and Arc-Length controls)
• Equilibrium Iterations schemes (Newton-Raphson, modified Newton-Raphson)
• Termination schemes (convergence and divergence criteria)

Lesson 4 : Special Topics

• Adaptive automatic stepping algorithm
• Prescribed non-zero displacements associated with time curves
• Deformation dependent loading
• Analysis stabilization techniques

Lesson 5 : Viewing the Results

• Deflected shape plots
• Displacement and stress color filled contour plots
• Animation of deflected shape, displacement, and stress contour plots
• X-Y plots for response quantities Isoplanes and sectioning