{"id":34420,"date":"2019-04-03T13:16:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/meshing-issue-longitudinal-fillet-welded-lap-joints\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T13:16:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:16:14","slug":"meshing-issue-longitudinal-fillet-welded-lap-joints","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/meshing-issue-longitudinal-fillet-welded-lap-joints\/","title":{"rendered":"Meshing issue \/ Longitudinal fillet welded lap joints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Community,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>General overview of model.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am modelling a longitudinal fillet welded joint. Where geometry is modeled on spaceclaim keeping topology &#8220;none&#8221;, the geometry consist of base metal, and weld metal and it is symmetric. The connection between the plates is &#8220;no separation&#8221; whereas bonded in the weld and base metal with MPC formulation.&nbsp;The total solid parts are three and it is a non-linear analysis.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As i have student license of ansys, the problem i am facing is with meshing. We require a sort of map mashing i.e. dense within the weld metal and around the bonded contact between weld and base metal and get coarser as we move far away from the weld metal. But i couldn&#8217;t do it propely, i have tried couple of things but they didn&#8217;t work. Any suggestions how could that be achieved?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/6c09935e-141f-4e2d-aeb7-a97100f5b9b5\/58397788-d27d-43e1-b069-aa2400d46f4b_meshing-issue.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, i got some element distortion at the ends of the weld, however, the program didn&#8217;t gave any warning or error for that but still asking if it alter the results?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>When we apply a symmetry in model, the results we got specifically the reaction forces, are the total forces (included the symmetric side) or only for the one side ?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Any suggestion regarding above question or any other amendments are appreciated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/6c09935e-141f-4e2d-aeb7-a97100f5b9b5\/414f35fb-acff-4312-b1f3-aa2400d5b553_element-distortion.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Many Thanks<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Abdul Malik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-34420","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["6592"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["1031"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["34420"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","159276"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["7"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["82421"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["82421"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-04-08 22:55:57"]},"test":"abdul-malik"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/34420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/34420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}