{"id":249,"date":"2011-08-25T10:59:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T14:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/fea-tutorial-nafems-benchmark-hemisphere-under-external-pressure"},"modified":"2011-08-25T10:59:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T14:59:58","slug":"fea-tutorial-nafems-benchmark-hemisphere-under-external-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/08\/fea-tutorial-nafems-benchmark-hemisphere-under-external-pressure.html","title":{"rendered":"FEA Tutorial: NAFEMS Benchmark Hemisphere Under External Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v32-hI4NO3o\" width=\"475\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NAFEMS Benchmarks, &#0160; Hemisphere Under External Pressure in SolidWorks, &#0160;allows you to explore creating a hemisphere&#0160;in SolidWorks and analyzing the model using&#0160;SolidWorks Simulation &#8211; all in the same interface.&#0160; NAFEMS Benchmarks in SolidWorks contain&#0160;a variety of exercises in Linear Static, Non Linear Analysis, Thermal,&#0160;Natural Frequency,&#0160;Force Vibrations, and &#0160;Composites.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2014e8af0d187970d.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hemisphere 15\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2014e8af0d187970d image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2014e8af0d187970d-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Hemisphere 15\" \/><\/a>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>How&#0160;do you create a smart model in SolidWorks for FEA analysis?&#0160;Instead of creating the entire hemisphere, you model a 1\/4 of the hemisphere and fix both ends.&#0160; When you are trying to simulate thin walled vessels, you can use SolidWorks Surface features.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Surfaces tools can be accessed as follows:<\/p>\n<p>1,&#0160;Right click in the CommandManager and Select&#0160;Surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>2. Select Insert, Surfaces<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2014e8af0cb4d970d.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SolidWorks Surface Tools\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2014e8af0cb4d970d\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2014e8af0cb4d970d-800wi.jpg\" title=\"SolidWorks Surface Tools\" \/><\/a>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Inside of SolidWorks Simulation, you can change dimensions and parameters, such as a radius, the Mesh and Run the model again to see the results.<\/p>\n<p>To open the model for this exercise, Add In SolidWorks Simulation. Select Help, SolidWorks Simulation, Validation, NAFEMS Benchmark, Linear Static.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2015390fd542a970b.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hemisphere Under External Pressure\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2015390fd542a970b image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2015390fd542a970b-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Hemisphere Under External Pressure\" \/><\/a>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Video: <span class=\"asset  asset-video at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2014e8b0e31b7970d\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/nafems-pressure-in-solidworks-lr.wmv\">Download NAFEMS Pressure in SolidWorks LR<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAFEMS Benchmarks, &#0160; Hemisphere Under External Pressure in SolidWorks, &#0160;allows you to explore creating a hemisphere&#0160;in SolidWorks and analyzing the model using&#0160;SolidWorks Simulation &#8211; all in the same interface.&#0160; NAFEMS Benchmarks in SolidWorks contain&#0160;a variety of exercises in Linear Static,<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/08\/fea-tutorial-nafems-benchmark-hemisphere-under-external-pressure.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5207,4015],"tags":[3926,4113,4939,4940,3969,4293,4316,4752],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis-2","category-mechanical-engineering","tag-analysis","tag-fea","tag-heat","tag-nafems","tag-pressure","tag-stress","tag-surface","tag-thermal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}