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Have you ever had to solve a complex model in Mechanical that you either weren’t familiar with or didn’t have prior knowledge of the critical stress and strain areas? In the past, there were two methods to approach this: 1) Generate a coarser mesh, solve the model, and add refinement to areas of importance. 2) Generate an overrefined mesh from the start to accurately capture the areas of importance. We understand these methods can become time consuming, so in 2023 we introduced a new feature to improve efficiency for durability studies. This new feature, geometry-preserving mesh adaptivity (GPAD), eliminates the need for an overrefined initial mesh and takes out the guesswork on mesh sizing. GPAD enables you to start a simulation with a coarser mesh, and, as the model is solved, the solver monitors quantities like variation of stress in regions and automatically refines the mesh. The refinement of the mesh occurs by matching itself with the underlying computer-aided design (CAD), working closer to the true shape of the model rather than basing it off the previously solved coarse mesh. Because the remeshing occurs during the solution phase, it improves accuracy without incurring a great deal of computational penalties. #StructuralEngineering #AnsysMechanical #GPAD #simulation

Ron White

✮ Predictive Mechanical/Mfg. Simulation Leader ✮ >CAD_CAE_DES_FEA + Plastics Molding SME<

2mo

Does this work better for linear material models? Can GPAD be used to mesh in high strain regions for polymers?

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Marco Evangelos Biancolini

RBF Morph Founder - Associate Professor of Machine Design

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Another well established approach is sub-modelling, really easy to be implemented in workbench! Can GPAD and sub-modelling combined?

Ilya Men

Applied Mechanical Engineer

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Not time effective, method 1 is more practical and faster

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Vishal Rananaware

13 years in New Product design & Development! M Tech! Johnson Controls! Ex- HUSCO! Ex- Onward Technologies.

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Very effective solution.

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Chaman Prakash Kanth

Mechanical Design Engineer | Autodesk Fusion 360 | Autodesk Inventor | Siemens NX CAD | ANSYS

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Truly helpful

Ramón Alberto García Mena

Student at Universidad de las Américas Puebla

2mo

That looks like an exhaust manifold!

Khalid ORFI

Ingénieur Mécanique & Calcul mécanique

2mo

Good solution!

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Hetarth Bhatt

Final year student at IIT Goa

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Interesting!

Chaimae sarghini

Steel structure engineer

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Widad Ait ouchtout

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