The next in the webinar series will cover sequential and fully coupled thermal-stress analyses using Abaqus. 

The three modes of heat transfer, conduction, convection and radiation will be covered, along with how these are defined in CAE.

Frequently a thermal analysis is coupled to a stress analysis in order to determine the impact of thermal loading on the structural behaviour.  If the structural behaviour will not influence the thermal behaviour, a sequential analysis approach can be adopted, but if the thermal behaviour is coupled to the structural behaviour, a fully coupled thermal/stress analysis is required.  This webinar will cover how both forms of analyses are performed.

In this post, we will be showing some of the capabilities of Abaqus for performing fully coupled thermal-structural analyses. In particular, an exemplary geometry of a mountain bike's perforated disc together with the breaking pads (included in the caliper-not modelled) will be used to show some of Abaqus' conjugate heat transfer and multiphysics capabilities.

In this post we will be showing an exemplary analysis with Abaqus Standard. This analysis will incorporate a coupled thermal-stress problem of  a cylindrical shell (e.g. a pipe enclosing a high temperature fluid used in a factory). This pipe will be connected to a metallic expansion joint that will have the purpose of undertaking the thermal extension of the pipe. The purpose of the coupled analysis will be to demonstrate the mapping of result values via the predefined field option.