Analysis
CFD Tutorial: Inlet Flow, Air over a Wing, and more SolidWorks Flow Tutorials – Part I
Today I explored the SolidWorks Flow Simulation folders, a CFD (computational fluid dynamics) goldmine inside the SolidWorks Education Edition that I didn’t know existed, so I thought I would share our flow tutorials, curriculum, and my goldmine with you. There is
... ContinuedFEA Tutorial: NAFEMS Steady State Temperature Distribution of a Plate in SolidWorks
SolidWorks contains tutorials based on the NAFEMS benchmarks. These benchmarks demonstrate the accuracy of SolidWorks Simulation software for the analysis modules of linear statics, thermal, geometric and material, non linearity and linear dynamics. NAFEMS benchmarks are used throughout many FEA examples
... ContinuedFEA Tutorial: Bending of A Cantilever Beam in SolidWorks
?SolidWorks Education Edition contains hundreds of FEA Tutorials right inside the software. I decided to talk about classic examples I did for my students in Engineering Mechanics – Statics and Engineering Physics. SolidWorks has Verification examples.and NA FEMs examples. These
... ContinuedSolidWorks Express July Newsletter – Boundary Surface with a Spoon, Tapering Springs
The July issue of the SolidWorks Express Newsletter is filled with lots of tips to help educators and students enhance their SolidWorks skills. This month's issue features a great video on using the boundary surface feature to create a 3D
... ContinuedSolidWorks Air Boat Model, FEA Results, Video and Presentation
Brad Smith, student at Baker College, created this Air Boat model for Professor Robert Cadwell's class and I am fortunate to share his final project with you. The zip file contains the models, finite element analysis results on a engine
... ContinuedAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2011 Concrete Canoe Competition
Thank you to the University of Evansville for hosting this year's 2011 ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition. SolidWorks was used not only in the 3D computer aided design but also in finite element analysis and fluid flow analysis. The competition featured finalist from around
... ContinuedStatic Analysis of a Bike Frame – SolidWorks is Engineering, SolidWorks is Statics
I know some readers have problems playing the videos. I republished this post again by uploading the videos to YouTube. I will continue to post videos on my teacher blog because some schools do not have access to YouTube. Last
... ContinuedSolidWorks for the Senior Capstone Design Project – Heat Transfer Made Easy
As a senior mechanical engineering student, understanding 4 years of theory to solve a complex problem is a challange. This Fall, SolidWorks puts together a series of Simulation videos to explain complex problems with SolidWorks Simulation tools that simplify the
... ContinuedSolidWorks Tutorial: F1inSchools (TM) Race Car Design Project
Here are the complete instructions to develop a F1inSchools SolidWorks 2010 car with a step-by-step .pdf and 2010 model files for the complete project. Create the body part, car assembly and drawings. perform a stress analysis for the axle and flow analysis to
... ContinuedSolidWorks Tutorial: Sustainability Material Choice and Sustainable Redesign
The SolidWorks Sustainability – An Introduction to Material Choice and Sustainability Redesign is a compact introduction to the engineering design process that incorporates material selection, stress analysis and thermal analysis. Your students will edit an assembly and explore how different materials can effect the
... ContinuedSatisfaction is just a few clicks away.
Satisfaction is a few clicks away. By Richard Williams 08/30/08 I guess if anyone had to put a label on me today one of my titles would have to be a professional internet surfer. Indeed I do
... ContinuedCantilever Beam Design
Design a cantilevered I-beam to carry a distributed load of 30 kN. Conduct a stress analysis of the original beam. The original cross section is shown to the right. Optimize the beam by determining the lowest cross sectional area subject
... ContinuedFracture Mechanics
This lesson explores the use of SolidWorks and CosmosWorks to model and study fundamentals of fracture mechanics. This lesson will be part of Introduction to Material Science course taught at Sophomore/Junior Years at college level. The class will first find
... ContinuedDetermining Beam Stress and Deflection with COSMOSXpress
This lesson explores determining stress and deflection for a simply loaded cantilever beam. We will first find the results by conventional analytical methods and then we will find them using COSMOSXpress (finite element analysis). We will also explore changing the
... Continued