Visual-Weld & Assembly - Truck-Ship-Aero-Heavy Seam Welding
Be able to translate the welding fabrication process into a virtual model that can simulate this process and its heat effects and understand the benefit of combining rapid distortion engineering and welding process validation to minimize engineering & response time. Understand requirements and values delivered of rapid distortion engineering for complex designs (get a first idea and provide a quick distortion response to designs, design changes, clamps, etc.); refinement of the engineering approach with localized process simulation, and necessary steps towards accurate process validation and accurate process validation of complex designs. Be able to go from geometry to mesh to a simulation model to assessing computed results and generate models that run stable, as fast as possible, still delivering accurate results.
Audience
Manufacturing engineering from design support to process validation and pre-series validation.
Prerequisites
Basic Knowledge of CAD, CAE & Welding engineering. A video-based basic training course will be provided ahead of the training.
LEARNING PATH
SUGGESTED COURSES
DESCRIPTION
- Operate the graphic user interface of Visual Environment, focus welding
- Generate shell mid-surface-based models including weld beads to be used for rapid distortion engineering and process validation
- Generate localized solid models, single and multi-pass, to refine the engineering approach
- Bull-dozer frame example with 100+ welds
- Best practices
- A focus can be put either on rapid distortion engineering or process validation
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TRAINING PROGRAM
Day 1
- Concept of rapid distortion engineering and process validation, values to extract
- How to operate the Graphic User Interface & create own tailored toolbars
- How to go from a CAD model to a mid-surface mesh with weld beads
- How to generate 3D meshes for localized process validation models
- How to make sure meshes are good to go
Day 2
- Rapid distortion engineering
- Set-up and run a model for rapid distortion engineering
- Assess computed results
- How to manage changes of design, clamping conditions, and weld sequence
- Localized process validation
- Set-up and run a localized model for welding process validation
- Understand the contents of a material database, manage material databases
- Manage heat input and process windows
- Manage changes of material for parts and wire, clamping conditions, and weld sequence
- Understand the influence of process parameters, clamping conditions and material on computed results
- Assess computed temperature, phase transformations, distortion, and residual stresses
- Mesh density, time stepping and precision – Best performance without compromising accuracy
- Full model process simulation
- Application to a representative large and complex model
Day 3
- Continuation of localized and large model welding process validation
- Industrial example