HW13.

0 HyperCrash Training

Innovation Intelligence®
Chapter 1 - Getting Started

• Graphic User Interface

• Import and export
• Model handling
• Browsers
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Launching HyperCrash
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Launching HyperCrash
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Graphic User Interface

•Pull down menu

•Tool bar
•Assemblies tree
•Message window
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Getting started - Main Display Controls

File Import
Allows users to load a new model.
It is possible to replace or add (merge) to the
previous model

If your input deck is written in a different units system, HyperCrash allows you to convert
it or to keep the original system
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Getting started - Main Display Controls

CTRL+

Rotation
Display all

Refresh View Zoom

Fit View simplifications
Standard view
Pan

CTRL+SHIFT 1 PART
SHIFT MORE PARTS

Show Mask
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Getting started - Main Display Controls

Options Display: manage the parts and

background colors

Press P on keyboard: switch on/off the

perspective view
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Interaction between graphic area and Tree

Select one or more parts by

picking or window selection

Add to previous selection by picking or

window selection

See parts on the tree

Show-Mask selected parts

Isolate by
transparency
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Toolbar – Display Options

Click to fit the displayed parts to the screen in the graphic window.
Click to refresh the screen.

Click and choose an option from the drop-down menu to display the
model in a predefined view:

to display XY view (same as F9 key)

to display YZ view (same as F10 key)
to display XZ view (same as F11 key)
to display XYZ (perspective) view (same as F12 key)

Click to reverse the displayed and masked parts in the graphic window.

Click to toggle between displaying and masking the free nodes from the graphic
window.
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Toolbar – Display Options

Click to display all the parts of the model

Click and select:

to add the parts selected in the tree in the graphic window
to add the parts selected in the tree and fit in the graphic window
to mask the parts selected in the tree from the graphic window
to isolate the parts selected in the tree in the graphic window

to add to the display

Click and select the element type to to mask from the display
shells to isolate
springs

beams

trusses

solids
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Toolbar – Display Options

Click and pick parts to unmask them completely.

Click and pick a part. The parts in node proximity to the selected one are
displayed. Click Yes to continue to display the connected parts or click Cancel to cancel
the function.

Click and pick two nodes in the graphic window. HyperCrash will display all the
parts connected to the two picked nodes.

Click and pick parts to mask them from the graphic window.

Click and define a box to mask parts from the graphic window.

Click and pick parts to isolate and display in the graphic window.

Click and define a box to isolate and display parts in the graphic window
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Toolbar – Display Options

Click and select one of the following icons from the drop-down menu. The
elements connected to the selected one(s) are displayed

and pick one element in the graphic display

and pick several elements in the graphic display. Click Yes to finish and validate the
selection or click Cancel to cancel the selection.
and select an element with a box in the graphic display

Click and select one of the following the icons from the drop-down menu.

and pick elements to mask them in the graphic window

and define a box to mask elements in the graphic window

and define a box to isolate and display only the elements in the box
and pick two nodes to display the elements that are in the the proximity of the
selected nodes
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Toolbar – Display Options

the display mode

Click and select
the view mode for the view simplification

node cloud display

feature line display

wireframe display
shaded display
shaded with feature lines display
shaded with wireframe display

displaying and masking element details

displaying and masking all the segments of the solid elements

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Toolbar – Information Options

By picking By Id

Nodes

Information about Elements

Graphic Object

Distance between two nodes

Angle between three nodes

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Toolbar – Display Options

The boundary conditions, connections, masses and kinematic conditions are called in
HyperCrash graphic objects.

This icon allows the user to see immediately what kind of objects are in the model;
the objects not found in the model are grayed.
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Shortcuts
F1, F2, F3 and F4: in picking mode, when more than one element is selected, F1 and F2 allow you to
switch from one element to another. Then, F3 allows you to validate or F4 allows you to cancel the choice.

F5: Display the rigid walls.

F6: Display the rigid bodies.
F7: Display the initial velocities.
F8: Display the free nodes (not belonging to any element).
SHIFT F5: Display the added masses.
SHIFT F6: Display the boundary conditions.
SHIFT F7: Display the contact interfaces.
SHIFT F8: Clear all displayed options.

F9 F12: Standard views (clicking the same key a second time reverts the view).

W: Set the background color to white.

B: Set the background color to black.

P: Switch between perspective view and orthogonal view.

Z: Zoom in (press Z and drag a box with the left mouse button in the Graphic Window).
SHIFT Z: Zoom out box.

ENTER or Y key: Yes (validate or accept).

ESC key: Cancel or dismiss.
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Model Browser
From Pull down menu, choose: Model Browser

Allows the user to display all the entities

inside the model, the includes and the
hierarchy of the model.

Display, undisplay or isolate parts,

assemblies, properties etc..

To see if an object in a model is linked to other

objects, right-click its name in the Browser and
select the option Cross Reference. A window
will appear with the name of all objects that are
linked to your object, their IDs, and their type.
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Model Browser

It is possible to change the

color and the display mode
of each part

Mesh support allows the user to display the parts

involved by the selected entity.
For instance, it is possble to find the part linked by a
specific rigid body
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Model Browser

The model browser interacts with the GUI:

• choose the entity type that you want to search
• In the GUI click on the entity that you want find inside
the browser
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Help in HyperCrash
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Exercise

1) Launch HyperCrash choosing Radioss Block V12 and kN-mm-ms-kg

2) Import the file: Master_0000.rad inside 00-Full_Car_Crash Folder
3) Try to handle the model, use the visualization features and experience with tree and model
browser
Chapter 2 - Model Organization

• Hierarchy Structure
• Assemblies Management
• Contour check
• Split and Position Option
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Assemblies management from Tree structure

The Tree structure organizes your model

hierarchically by assemblies of parts and
ohter assemblies.

Using the context menu, it’s possible

to change the name or id to a part.
You can delete or export one or more
parts.

You can also create new assemblies.

It is very easy to move some parts (or

assemblies) inside an assembly:
clicking the middle button and
dragging the selected parts
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Mesh Editing: Split Part

This panel allows you to move the selected
elements from the original part to another part
(existing or new).
This panel is similar to organize HyperMesh panel

After splitting a part remeber to change physical

part to assembly. That allows to move the part
inside the assebly tree
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Mesh editing: Move nodes

After merging a new model, it could be

useful to move some part in the correct
position with respect to the other parts

Plane definition

Axis direction

Axis direction Base node

Plane
definition
Base node
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Contour Check

Quality Countour Check

The contour check can be a good

tool to help users organize their
models.

For instance It is possible to isolate

all the materials that have the
same strenght in terms of Young’s
modulus.
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Exercise

1) Experience with the browsers, try to create some assemblies and so onD
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Exercise:

1) Launch HyperCrash choosing Radioss Block V12 and kN-mm-ms-kg

2) Import the file: 00-Bumper_Start_0000.rad

3) Import using merge option the file: 01-Rail-To_Import_0000.rad

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Exercise:

4) Move to the correct position the imported parts

5) Organize the model in assembly hierarchy as shown below

6) Export the model as: 02-Bumper_Organized_0000.rad

Chapter 3 – Material and Properties

• Properties creation and assignement

• Properties allocation in DataBase
• Material creation and assignement
• Material allocation in DataBase
• Mass Details
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Model: Material & Property

Material / Property Broswer

Select by picking

Select by tree

Isolate in the graphics area the parts that have the selected
Material or Property.
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Model: Material & Property

Creation:

• From the upper panel choose the

type of Material/Property you want to
create
• In the lower part the card edit panel
will appear
Assignement:

• Select the parts by Pick or by Tree

• Save the operation
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Material & Property data base

Switch model to database

Change database directory

Come back to the home database

Save on the data base

Most of the users have already defined a library of materials and a library of
properties that they use frequently.

Hypercrash allows to store and retrieve in a very easy way this information in
a database.

It is possible to switch from the materials (properties) created in the model to

the database by clicking in the button (see image)
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Material & Property data base

When the user retrieves a property or

material from the data base, he or she can
change the name and other parameters
before assigning it to a part.

After the assignment, a new property or

material will be carried by the model using a
new id and the specified parameters.
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Model - Part Manager

The part manager allows the user

to manage properties, materials
and other features.

It is possible to select a part and

change material (or property) using
three different ways:

• select a material already defined

in the model by a list

•select a material already defined

in the model by clicking another
part

• select a material from the

database
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Material property– Tree structure

The summary of material and property assigned

to the part is available by list selection

It is possible to
change some items
directly from the tree
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Mass information

This panel gives to the

user a complete report
about inertia properties.

It is possible to save this

information in an ASCII
file.

The function can be

called from the model
tree by context menu
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Exercise:
0) Import
2_5-Bumper_Organized_0000.rad

1) Create a material called STEEL

and assign it to the parts in the
pictures

2) change the database directory to ../Exe/02-Bumper-Advanced/material_DB and

assign the materials in the following way:
aluminium high strength steel
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Exercise:

3) Review the materials and save the material STEEL create at step 1 in data
base directory

4) Select the QEPH formulation in the Crashbox properties

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Exercise:

5) From List Selection, set the number of integration points through the thickness to 5

6) Set the other shell parameters by the control card DEF_SHELL

7) Export the model as: 03-Bumper_MatProp_0000.rad

Chapter 4 – Mesh Editing

• Node Creation and editing

• Element creation and editing
• Parts management
• Rbody creation
• Move option
• Renumber
• Clean
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Mesh Editing
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Mesh editing: Create Nodes

Different methods:
• Nodes between nodes

• Nodes by coordinates

• Copy nodes
• Traslate
• Vector
• Length
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Mesh editing: Modify Nodes

• Merge single
Equivalent to HyperMesh
replace

• Merge Multiple
Equivalent to HyperMesh
equivalence

Nodes of Set1 will be

merged to nodes of Set2

• Disconnection
Equivalent to HyperMesh
detach

• Delete
Equivalent to HyperMesh
Clear temp nodes
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Mesh editing: 2D Elements

• Create
• Choose the part in which
you want to put new elements:
• Existing part
• Create a new part
• Two options 3
• Element by element
6
• Meshing
• Pitch flag Yes = size element
• Pitch flag No = number of nodes

• Modify
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Mesh editing: Rigid body creation

Slave nodes selection ways

The master node in HyperCrash is

automatically computed and positioned
in C.O.G. of slave nodes
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Mesh editing: Part

• Duplicate
Equivalent to HyperMesh
Organize Copy Component
split

• Split Equivalent to HyperMesh

Organize Move Elements

• Sheet Stiffener
• Stiffener
Equivalent to HyperMesh:
Duplicate and offset selected elements

• Normals Orientation
• Offset
Equivalent to HyperMesh: Offset component
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Mesh editing: Others

• Move Equivalent to HyperMesh:

• Mouse Tool Positioning

Plane definition
• Defined
Diplacement
Axis direction

Axis direction Base node

Plane
definition
Base node

• Renumbering
• All
• Specific

• Clean
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Mesh editing: Move with mouse

Plane defined
by surrounding
elements

You can move Plane defined

one or more nodes. by three point

The plane or direction of allowed

motion are explained on the rigth
image Direction normal the
plane defined by
three point
When moving nodes, you could
worsen the mesh quality.
Check this flag in order to
Plane defined
interactively see the elements
by the screen
quality.
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Exercise:

1) Create Rbody To simulate the Car

2) Export the model as: 04-Bumper_RbodyCar_0000.rad

Chapter 5 – Contact Interfaces

• Interfaces Definition
• Interfaces Check
• Intersection and Penetration
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Contact interfaces

1) Choose the contact type

2) Select the parts (or elements) involved

3) Define the card properties

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Interfaces check: Intersection and Penetration

Initial penetration
There is a physical compentration between parts, but
the mid planes don’t cross each other.
This configuration provides an initial interface force
that tries to push off the parts.

The repulsion force gives an

error in the energy balace due
to the interference

Initial Intersection
The mid planes of the shell cross each other.
This configuration needs to be solved using a
de-intersecting tool
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Interfaces check panel

•General information about intersections:

• Couples of parts involved:

master part + number slave parts

• Name and id of involved interfaces

• De-intersecting tools

•Highlight the involded

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Interfaces check: automatic de-intersection

You can fix the position of Hypercrash suggest

the part with a better mesh you which nodes you
should move and the
displacement vector.

You can ask/remove

suggestion about other
De-intersect automatically and nodes by picking them.
re-check last selection
You can delete all
vectors.

Apply the suggested

displacements.

You can undo the

de-intersection.
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Interfaces check: manually de-intersection

Choosing the manually de-intersection you can move the nodes in the
following ways

Plane defined by surrounding

elements Plane defined by the screen

Direction normal the plane Plane defined by three points

defined by three points
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Interfaces check: depenetration

Automatic depenetration

Select node/nodes to
depenetrate by pick or box

Depenetrate only the selected

nodes

Undo depenetration
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Exercise:

1) Define a self contact interface

2) Check and fix intersections and penetrations

3) Export the model as: 05-Bumper_Interface_0000.rad

Chapter 6 – Connections

• Spotweld and master weld file

• Spotweld check and adjust
• Bolt
• Tied interface
• Connection check
• Connectivity check
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Spotweld creation: Criteria

The mandatory parameters to set during the creation of a weld are reported
below, the rest are needed only when the user is checking the quality of the
welds
•Gap Search distance between the parts to be welded

•Element Lenght Min Must be minor than Gap Search

•Element Lenght Max Must be major than Gap Search

•Angle Max Maximum angle between elements

Gap Search Part

Angle Between Parts

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Spotweld creation by User interface

• select the parts to be welded

• select the location
• element or node
• save

Welding lines start

end

Global welding
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Spotweld creation by User interface

If you want to weld two elements belonging to

the same part you have to:

• Select the part

• Press ALT and click the part

again
ALT +

• Go on as before
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Spotweld creation by file

Master weld file format:

Id-spotweld : num of layers : x_Spot : y_Spot : z_Spot : id_layer_1 : id_layer_2

Id-spotweld : num of layers : x_Spot : y_Spot : z_Spot : id_layer_1 : id_layer_2
Id-spotweld : num of layers : x_Spot : y_Spot : z_Spot : id_layer_1 : id_layer_2
Id-spotweld : num of layers : x_Spot : y_Spot : z_Spot : id_layer_1 : id_layer_2
Id-spotweld : num of layers : x_Spot : y_Spot : z_Spot : id_layer_1 : id_layer_2

HyperCrash offers two ways in which you can realize

the spotwelds:

• By layer id (HyperCrash will read the property id)

• By proximity
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Spotweld creation by file

HyperCrash will automatically

create the spotwelds,
showing a little report in the
message window

If some spotweld failed or didn’t respect the quality

criteria, the Modify Spotweld panel will be
immediately available
red highlited spotwelds failed
orange highlited spotwelds are out of tolerance

•Gap Search Double detects spotwelds closer to

each other less than this value
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Spotweld repair

Click “see” in order to isolate the spot

and the linked parts

Click “Parts display” in order to see

the nearest parts and rebuild the
spotweld.
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Check Spotweld
The spotweld check is available from the pull down menu:
Connections Spotwelds
The check will be performed
according to the criteria previously
defined.

columns criteria.

Selecting a spotweld and clicking on the glasses HyperCrash will display on the
message window the reason why the weld is out of the range.
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Extract Connection from Model

When you define a weld, HyperCrash

stores the following information:
• Id properties of linked parts
• Solver Entities
• Two interface type2
• One springbeam

When you export the input deck HyperCrash writes an auxiliary file (.M00 file)
with information about the linked parts.

HyperCrash reads this file automatically during import and recognizes the
solver entities as spotwelds.
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Extract Connection from Model

If HyperCrash doesn’t find an .M00 file, the

solver entities will not be recognized as
spotwelds.

HyperCrash is able to recognize the solver

entities configuration used to model the weld
and see them as a weld.

After that, it’s possible to manage these

entities as spotwelds:
Check them from the panel quality or export
them to a master weld file

Note: this function in called in

HyperMesh FE-absorb
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Bolt creation

In order to create a bolt you must follow

these steps:

• select the parts of the first set

• select the parts of the second set
• define:
• the bolt center
• the diameter
• the distance between center
and top (center and bottom)
of the bolt
• the axis of the bolt
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Tied interface creation

Slave node

Master segment
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Check Connectivity from Quality panel

The Show Window Check Connectivity panel

shows the parts connected to each other, as well
as the free parts.

The user can choose different ways in which parts

can be connected to others

Free parts highlighted

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Check Connectivity from Quality panel

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Check Connectivity from Quality panel

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Connection – Connectivity from Tree

Connectivity option shows

the attached parts.

Connection option shows the attached parts

only by connections.
A box appears above the message box with a
Tree showing the connections and the involved
parts
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Exercise:

1) Create all the connections between the parts, and check them
• Weld
• Bolt
• Tied Interface
2) Export the model as: 06-Bumper_Connections_0000.rad
Chapter 7
Kinematic Conditions and Time History

• Kinematic conditions
• Loads
• Rigid wall
• Time history
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Single Point Constraints & Initial velocity

This panel allows you to block the

degrees of fredoom of a node or a
group of nodes.
Select the nodes and check the
flags T_x,y,z or R_x,y,z

In a similar fashion, you can assign

an initial velocity to a group of
nodes.
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Forces and imposed kinematic condition

The Forces and Imposed Kinematic Conditions need a function that

defines their behavior in time

When creating one (after hitting Ok), a pop up

window appears.
- You can define your curve by point.
- You can import the curve from a file or use
another function present in the model
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Group by box
The option to include all nodes (elements) inside a space region is very useful
when you have to set some boundary conditions such as gravity or initial velocity.
You are not constrained to node id or part id.

HyperCrash creates a box

around the displayed part.
The user can refine the box
size manually

Click in order to see and

modify/save the box
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Rigid walls

Every rigid wall type

needs parameters to
be defined.

For an infinite plane, you need a base

point and the normal direction
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Rigid walls

M2

M1

Normal=(M1-M)^(M2-M)
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Time history

Using Data History, you can define the data that

you want to see in your results.

You can choose assemblies, parts, elements and nodes.

You can also create a section

in which forces will be
measured.
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Time history

The variables to be written

can be chosen from the model
browser by context menu.

A pop-up window will appear

and display the available
keywords.
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Exercise:

1) Import (using merging option) the file 00-Bumper_Barrier_Position_0000.rad

and use skins to create two Rigid Walls as shown below

2) Define an initial velocity for the whole

model: 16 km/h = 4.4mm/ms
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Exercise:

3) Create an accelerometer on COG car node

4) Create one cross section for each Rail
5) Create output requests to write in time history

6) Export the model as: 08-Bumper_BoundaryTH_0000.rad

Chapter 8 – Model Checker

• Model checker
• Rbody check/edit
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Model checker

The model checker provides the user a

complete check of his/her model, listing all
the error and warnings.
Can be customized

Allows to automatically
repair or open the edit
panel in order to correct
the model manually.
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Model checker: Spring and rigid bodies

The model checker gives the list of springs with errors, and sends
you to the modify spring panel.

A loose node is a spring node not connected

to any other element.

A spring with coincident nodes is visualized in

HyperCrash like a spiral.

The model checker allows you to split two

rigid bodies with the same master node
creating two different masters on the
same position.

For the other corrections, it sends you to

the Check Rigids Panel.
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Mesh editing: Rbody Check

Two rigids have the same master node

Master node on element

Two rigid bodies have the same slave nodes

The master node of a rigid body is slave of another

Master node is also slave

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Mesh editing: Rbody Edit

Common Master node between two or more rigid bodies

We’re not able yet to correct this error from Rigid Body Edit panel.

It is possible to split the rigid bodies directly using model checker.

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Mesh editing: Rbody Edit

Master node on element

See rigid

The master node will be

automatically translated to
slave and the new master
is recomputed.
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Mesh editing: Rbody Edit

Two rigid bodes have the same slave nodes

Right click and see slave node in other rigid body

See the rigid that you want to update

Click Save
The slave nodes will
be automatically
removed from the
second Rbody
involved.
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Mesh editing: Rbody Edit

Cascade of rigid bodies

Click See Cascade of RBodies to

find the RBodies involved. Select
the rigid.

See rigid and save

The slave node

will be
automatically
removed from
the involved
Rbody.
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Mesh editing: Rbody Edit

Master is also slave

See rigid Right click and See and save

Rbody Master is also
Slave
Chapter 9 – Engine File
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Engine File Cards

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Exercise

1) Fill the Engine file using the required control cards for RADIOSS solver.

2) Export the model as: 10-Bumper_Run_0000.rad

3) Submit to the Solver