analisys of an assembly

Hi. I'm new to FEA in caelinux. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to analyze an assembly of few parts (structural analysis)? If yes, are there any limitations?

Krzysztof wrote:

Hi. I'm new to FEA in caelinux. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to analyze an assembly of few parts (structural analysis)? If yes, are there any limitations?

Yes, it is possible.

The only limitation is that there are not wizards to do it, so you have to edit the command file by yourself. If you go to the wiki of Caelinux, you will find a tutorial that I made, regardind the analysis of the frame of a little press. note that in that analysis contacts between bodies are investigated in a very simplified way (linear analysis, without treatment of contacts).

Just one thing: it is very easy, using a 32 bit platform, to reach the memory limit of the operating system, so it is better to pass to a 64 bit system if the need of complex analysis arise.

Good luck.

Thx guys. BTW i'll be grateful if u can paste here a link to that tutorial. I'm a little bit blind, I think...<br /><br />Post edited by: Xys, at: 2009/04/28 14:48

Xys wrote:

Thx guys. BTW i'll be grateful if u can paste here a link to that tutorial.

this is the link to my tutorial:
www.caelinux.org/wiki/index.php/Contrib:Cacciatorino

but there are several others at the wiki page:
www.caelinux.org/wiki/index.php/Doc:CAETutorials

Regards.