Follow Along: Static Analysis

We can drag our FE model straight into our input, and we’ll add a second input in our boundary conditions list. We’ll add our restraint and our force, and we’ll let our Static Analysis run. I’ll type “I” to isolate our Static Analysis block, and the initial result we see in our heads-up display is displacement.

We can view displacement of the total model or view directional displacement along the three axes. We can use the slider to view how our part deforms, and we can change our units as needed. We can also adjust the max and the min of our range so we can view results given certain criteria we hope to meet.

Opening our color options, we can edit our color palette, and we can toggle between a continuous and a banded color transition. We can also use our probe tool to view our simulation results at individual mesh element vertices. We can probe along the surface of the part, or we can section cut using X and select volume mesh elements in our section cut window so that we can probe over internal mesh elements as well.

In addition to displacement, we can view our analysis results in terms of strain, stress, and reaction forces. We see here that if we go into our properties in the block details of our static analysis, we’ve generated these different fields that have our analysis information in them, so we can later use these for field-driven design. Now we’ve completed our static analysis.