Flex body dynamics and modal stress recovery using Adams

Objective

You will learn how to use Adams/Flex to incorporate flexibility into your Adams models. The course is primarily focused on using component modal synthesis via the Modal Neutral File (MNF) and Adams/View. Previous FEA experience is a plus, but not a requirement. You will be comfortable using Adams/Flex after taking this course.

Content

• Modal Flexibility: Theoretical background, combined rigid-flexible equations of motion
• Importing a flexible body into a rigid-body model
• Working with flexible body models in Adams/View (mode manager, connect flexible part to rigid parts, add forces/torques, use measures)
• Adams/Solver dataset and Adams/View command language syntax
• Using flexible body models with stand-alone Adams/Solver (edit .adm files, generate .mtx files, submit simulations)
• Performing static, dynamic, and eigenvalue analyses
• Exporting loads from Adams/View
• Methods for optimizing MNFs
• Comparing results of rigid and flexible models (plotting, animation)
• Validating Adams/Flex results with FEM results and hand-calculations
• Modelling considerations
• Debugging
• Modelling contact with a flexible body
• Using a modal force (MFORCE) to define a pressure load
• Publishing simulation results on the web (generate movies, table of eigenvalues, snapshot images, include model files)
• Reviewing several application examples
• Reviewing/Discussing methods for generating MNF from FEA packages
• Adams/AutoFlex

Prerequisites

A working knowledge of Adams as covered in ADM701.

Dates

Frimley:

26.09.2023-27.09.2023

Nottingham:

18.04.2023-19.04.2023

Duration

2 days

Price

£900+VAT(Hexagon office)/£600+VAT(online)

Contact

Tel: +44 (0)1276 903120

Email: MI-MSC-info.uk@hexagon.com