Feature Walkthrough

In this section, we walk though a basic numerical stress/strain problem to demonstrate the functional capabilities of ModelBuilder: importing model geometry, assigning boundary conditions and material properties, generating meshes, generating solver input files, running a solver, and visualizing the results. The geometry we’ll use for this problem is a convex polygon with one inner loop (hole). We apply a two loads, one distributed land one point load, and calculate the resulting stress and strain fields.

• Creating a Project
• Importing Geometry
• Starting a Stress/Strain Analysis
• Assigning Boundary and Load Conditions
• Generating the Mesh
• Generating the Input File
• Running the MinimalFEM Solver
• Viewing the Results
• Closing the Project