{"id":395854,"date":"2024-11-30T17:04:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T17:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/395854\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T17:04:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T17:04:27","slug":"395854","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/395854\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Welding Simulation Problem Initial Conditions and mesh contraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;It&#8217;s a pretty difficult process to model.&nbsp; Usually the birth and death capability is used when welds are actually being added to the model as opposed to just heating the base metal to a high temperature.&nbsp; It&#8217;s important that the weld bodies are given an elevated &#8220;Reference Temperature&#8221; so that they contract when they cool down.&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-395854","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/395854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/395854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}