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[Osama Jadaan]

How do we incorporate transient heat transfer (transient thermal distribution) in the sintering of materials. Sintering is a capability available in the additive manufacturing add-on in ANSYS Mechanical. 

 

Thank you.

[Ashish Khemka]

Hi,

Please do a web search for a paper titled: 

Computational modeling of heat transfer and sintering behavior during direct metal laser sintering of AlSi10Mg alloy powder

Also, please see if the following link is of use to you: Tutorial workbench with sintering process; (ansys.com)

Regards,

Ashish Khemka

[Osama Jadaan]

Thank you Ashish, I appreciate your reply. 

I read the paper you suggested. I also read all documentation in ANSYS regarding the sintering models and add-on module, did the tutorials and started my own model. 

The paper you asked me to read only deals with transient heat transfer modeling, which I have no issue with and know how to do. My question was regarding using the transient thermal results as input into the sintering analysis (add-on). how do we go about doing this in ansys. Currently, it seems like ansys assumes constant temperature profile throughout the component at a given time. But what I need is to use a transient temperature profile that varies with time and position with the sintering analysis. 

Thank you.

Osama Jadaan

[Ashish Khemka]

Hi Osama,

Please wait for other members to comment.

 

Regards,

Ashish Khemka

[Janos Plocher]

Hello Osama,

You can import the transient thermal results through an external data system, i.e. as an imported load. For further information please read the following section: Importing Loads (ansys.com).

Regards,

János

[Osama Jadaan]

Thank you, Janos. I will try your suggestion.

Regards,

Osama Jadaan