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Tutorial Material for
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0With Integrated Pro/MECHANICA
Tutorial 2: Modeling Cantilever Beam and Performing
Finite Element Analysis using Pro/MECHANICA
Chuanyu Feng, [email protected]
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Modeling Cantilever Beam using Extrusion
Introduction
In this session, we will first make a cantilever beam using Extrusion feature. Then usethe integrated Pro/MECHANICA to perform the finite element analysis of this cantileverbeam.
Create a Cantilever Beam
1. Start Pro/E Wildfire.2. Click menu: File New . A dialog will pop up as shown in Figure 1.3. Give a new name and/or description if desired.4. Click OK button and Pro/E will create an empty solid part.
Figure 1. Create a Cantilever Beam
5. Select the Front Reference plan.6. Then click the SketchTool . Information will be filled in the Sketch Window.
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7. Click Sketch button in Figure 3.8. Now Pro/E is in the Sketch mode. This will allow you to sketch in the XY plane
and extrude in the Z direction.9. You can close the References window by clickclose button.
Figure 2. Start a sketch: Options
10.You can close the References window by clickclose button.11.You can setup the Sketch options by click menu Sketch Options12.Choose the Rectangle tool to create a rectangle (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Draw a rectangle
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13.Click or Middle mouse button to De-select the Rectangle tool.14.Double click the dimension; change it to 2in width by 4in height. Press Enter key on
the keyboard to finish the input.
15.Click to finish the sketching
Figure 4. Change dimension
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Figure 5. Rotated Sketch
16.Rotate the sketch. So you can see how it was put on the reference plane.17.Select Sketch 1 in the model tree, then Click the Extrude tool
1. Select the sketch
2. Use
Extrude tool
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Figure 6. Preview, Input 30
18.Input 30, Press Enter key on the keyboard. Pro/E will show updated preview19.Clickmiddle mousebutton or click the Green check mark to finish the part.20.Save the part by click File Save, or click the disk icon in the toolbar
region. Click OK button.
2. Input 30 instead of
using a default value
1. You will see apreview with the
default extrusion
depth value
3. This is the
updated view
4. Click theCheckmark button
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Figure 8. Choose the working model type
Create a new material and assign it to the part
1. Show the Mechanica Objects and Actions tool bar on the right chest region.
Figure 9. Right toolchest configuration
1. Put mouse in the right
toolchest region,
2. Right click the showup the Configuration
menu
3. Make sure Mechanica Objects and
Actions are checked. Theseinformation are accessable from Main
Menu: Inserts and Analysis
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2. Select Main menu: Properties Materials 3. Click New button on the pop-up Materials dialog4. Enter corresponding values as shown in Figure 11. Click Ok to finish material
definition.
Figure 10. Materials
Figure 11. Material definition
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5. The defined material appears on the Materials in Model List. (Selected)6. Click Assign button,7. Select Part from the list menu. Pro/E will hide the materials dialog and let you
choose the part for the material.
8. Move mouse over the cantilever beam, it will become highlighted. Click on it.9. Click middle mouse button to confirm the selection. Or Click the OK button
in the Select window.10.close the materials window11.Save the file
Figure 12
Middle mouse button or clickOK here
to confirm the selection
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Figure 14. Setup constraint
4. Input Fixed_End as the name of the constraint, and then click OK button to finisthe setup.
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Apply Load
5. Rotate the cantilever beam, so that the other end is facing you.6. Click main menu: Insert Force/ Moment Load 7. Click the surface on end of the cantilever beam ( Opposite to the one has
displacement boundary condition)
8. Click mouse middle button to confirm the selection ( or click OK button in theselect window). Then the two small windows at the bottom will close.
9. In the Force/Moment Load window : Change the name toApplied_Load_in_Y,
10.Input -100 in the Force Y component11.Click Ok to confirm it.
Figure 15. Load setup
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Figure 16. Cantilever Beam with Load and displacement Boundary conditions
12.Now the Boundary conditions are all setup. And we are ready to do the analysis.
You can review and edit
this information onBoundary conditions
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Figure 17.
13.Click main menu: Analysis Mechanical Analysis/ Studies 14.It will bring the Analysis and Design Studies window15.Click menu from the Analysis and Design studies window: FileNew Static
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Figure 18.
16.It will bring the Static Analysis Definition window17.Make sure Constrains and Loads set are highlighted.18.Click OK to proceed
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Figure 19. Run analysis
19.Click menu: Run Start in the Analysis and Design Studies window 20.click Yes on the Question window for error detection.21.Click the displace status button to see the status of analysis
Displace status
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Figure 20. Run status
22.Analysis will be done once you see the Run Completed. Close the window whenit is done.
23.click the main menu: Analysis Results ( button ), Pro/E will start anew window. Click menu: Insert Results Window, you will see a new windowpopped up, Result Window Definition.
24.If you click the button directly in the window show in Figure 19, you willautomatically pop up the Result Window Definition with opened result (Figure23).
Figure 21
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25.Click the button26.chose Analysis1, click Open
Figure 22. Open the result file
27.Result Window Definition is extended, more options are shown.28.Choose ZZ component in Quantity page
Figure 23. Setup options
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29.Select Display Options page, setup as shown in the following figure.30.Click OK and Show to display the stress distribution
Figure 24. Setup options
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Figure 25. Results
31.Select menu: Edit Result Window (or click ) to edit the result window.
Export Results as an Image File
This part will go through the steps in exporting the results from Pro/MECHANICA to
image files. You can save in different file format, but for reasonable quality with smaller
file size, JPG file is a good choice. Then you can insert it into popular word processor,such as Microsoft WORD.
1. Click menu: File Export Image
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Figure 26. Export an image
Figure 27. Choose JPEG from Output Format
2. Change output format to JPEG ( last choice)3. check the To File option, Input the File name or Use the Browse button to
navigate to a desired folder and input the file name. (Figure 28)
4. Now it is ready to use the JPG file anywhere you want.
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Figure 28. Output to image file
5. Close the Results window by click menu: File Exit Results or click the X onthe top right corner of the window.