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Weld Planner
2014.0
8 Aug 2014
ESI SYSWELD: From weld quality to body manufacturing & distortion engineering, Virtual Welding & Assembly Suite offers a unique computer-aided assessment of material characteristics, residual stresses and distortions by taking into account all the multi-physics that is involved in Welding, Heat Treatment and Assembly manufacturing processes.
With Weld Planner, you can perform virtually Welding Distortion Engineering. You define components, joints, spots weld, seam weld, clamps and welding sequences in a weld plan, compute distortion and optimize it in order to keep it within tolerances.
The solution works with shell or solid and shell/solid meshes by using a fast shrinkage methodology.
Highlights of the release:
Management of Un-connected Mesh for Welding
With the new functionality available in Weld Planner, it is not anymore mandatory to have coincident nodes between the components and the weld beads. The thermal and mechanical compatibility will be ensured automatically.
Add Value:
- Easy meshing
- Strong Meshing Time Reduction
- Unconnected Mesh Management between bead and component or between component and component
- Compatible with DMP
Counterbalance Distorted Shape: Compensation
- The distortion due to thermal dilatation and contraction cannot be reduced sometime as expected by optimizing the clamping system and the welding processes and sequences.
- The parts have to be compensated before welding so that after welding the final assembly fit the tolerances required. For this purpose a compensation tool has been implemented inside the Weld Planner in order to counterbalance the distorted shape. The objective is to find the nominal geometry after welding assembly.
- The initial geometry is counterbalanced after each run based on the obtained deformation and this corrected geometry is the initial state for next run. After several iterations the distortions fit the tolerances and the geometry of the component before welding assembly is known. This geometry before welding assembly can be then the target after stamping or forging or casting.
Please check VIRTUAL WELDING, HEAT TREATMENT & ASSEMBLY 2014 Release Notes for more details.
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