Tips & Tricks

Horse saddle distortion modelling in Visual Weld

Welding of structures involves complex interactions between thermal, metallurgical and mechanical phenomena leading to residual stresses and distortions, which play a major role during subsequent service of these structures. Controlling material characteristics, residual stress and keep distortion within tolerances via the computer can significantly enhance the performance, the quality of the product and the structure’s service life

Restart Sysweld thermo-metallurgy and mechanical calculation in batch mode

The aim of this article consists to show sysweld/systus users how to perform a restart computation when a calculation run in batch mode is stopped in middle for some reasons or not.

Overview of CSM Welding Advisor in Visual Environment 18.0.2

This tip is to give an overview of new CSM welding advisor in Visual Environment 18.0.2. This new advisor comes in replacement of Visual Welding advisor and uses Assembly solver to perform transient welding simulation.

Friction Stir Welding modelling with an Axi-symmetric tool

Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is an innovative technology, which allows a solid junction of heterogeneous alloys, using a wear-resistant rotary tool that follows the welding seam. ESI Welding solution allows todays to predict temperature generated by FSW process. The proposed methodology is based on local approach that cannot give global distortion of the welded components. The aim of this article is to show how user can setup it own FSW process and run the computation using Visual Weld application

e-Café #1- Construire sa propre carte matière MMAT à l’aide de Visual-Crash PAM

Construire sa propre carte matière MMAT à l’aide de Visual-Crash PAM

Managing Multiple STAGE with Virtual Performance Solution (VPS)

This tip provides some information on the usage of multi stage runs in Virtual Performance Solution (VPS)

Using Inertial Relief

This tip provides some background information on how to model static cases without considering the effect of boundary conditions in Virtual Performance Solution (VPS)

Preloading BOLTS

This tip provides methodology to pre stress elements in Virtual Performance Solution (VPS) to model Bolt assemblies.

Hints on the usage of linear Tetrahedron (TETR4 / ) elements

This tip provides some background information on the question, when, or when not, to use the linear tetrahedron (TETR4 / ) element in Virtual Performance Solution (VPS)

Why do total mass, sum of part masses and sum of nodal masses not match ?

This tip discusses the possible discrepancies in informations concerning total mass, part masses, nodal and element masses, given in the Virtual Performance Solution (VPS) output listing.