Ansys SMART Fracture断裂分析白皮书.PDFVIP

WHITE PAPER / SMART Fracture WHITE PAPER SMART Fracture According to a 1983 report by Battelle and the National Bureau of Standards, the economic costs of fracture in the United States alone was $119 billion per year (in 1983 dollars). If a similar study were to be done today, that figure would surely have increased, given the large growth in consumer products, automobiles and industrial equipment over the years. Any technology that could reduce the costs of fracture to consumers and businesses could have a big impact on the economy, as well as customer satisfaction. The traditional fracture testing method of building prototypes is a time-consuming and costly process. Engineering simulation of fracture during the design phase to predict a product’s toughness has been an available alternative method since the early 1980s. However, simulation of fracture has not been easy to set up and perform until now. Traditionally, the meshing stage consumed a lot of time (up to several days) because engineers had to fit a crafted mesh involving hexahedrons (hex) and wedges to capture the crack front — the ideal mesh using only hex elements was often not possible. This led engineers to simplify the geometry of the crack to fit a hex-only mesh pattern, resulting in loss of fidelity in fracture analysis. Now, with the new Unstructured Mesh Method (UMM) in Ansys Mechanical, engineers can reduce preprocessing time by employing UMM’s automatically generated all-tetrahedral (tet) mesh for crack fronts, while achieving the same high-fidelity results as a simulation run with the ideal hex mesh configuration. Meshing time has been reduced from up to several days to a few minutes. Using UMM, Ansys has also introduced the Separating Morphing and Adaptive Remeshing Technology (SMART) crack growth simulation technology to Ansys Mechanical to enable