Carabiner Analysis
Pete and I are finishing up our Carabiner analysis for our Mechanical Engineering studies. Check out this sweet video showing loading.
Carabiner FEA Analysis from mikedidonato on Vimeo.
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Awesome job Mike D! I <3 FEA simulations.
Thanks!
What does all that mean? Does the blue mean no stress then red mean more stress.
That is correct. Red is more stress, blue is less.
The deformation is pretty sweet huh?
I have 2 questions of the utmost import.
1) Was the final loading more or less than 1 Sander equivalent?
2) If less, would my Audi biners have held?
What a cliffhanger (pun intended)… I wanted to see it break!
Me too, I wanted to see it shatter and send shrapnel flying!
dude, were doing caribeaner testing in ansys right now for my FEA class. how did you import this geometry? were using solidworks and an iges file but it wont work with assemblies. this project is killing me and ANSYS hates me!!!
For this example, the models were done using Catia. We also used Solid Edge. For the Solid Edge files we exported to STEP file and used that in ANSYS. Unfortunately, my project partner did most of the ANSYS work, so I can’t help you too much with that particular software. I was working with COSMOS, a different FEA software, so that we could compare the results from the two different FEA programs.
We had six models: The body, the gate, the two pins, and the two testing rods. For the ANSYS analysis we only ran the test on half the body and half the load using symmetry to get the whole picture.
I don’t think we had much of a problem importing any of the files. I had some tough times getting the mesh to work smoothly in COSMOS, but my ANSYS teammate spoke of no major issues.