Thermal/mechanical Coupled analysis

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hm7788
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Thermal/mechanical Coupled analysis

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Can Elmer do thermal-mechanical coupled analysis? If so, which solver I need to use? For example, in laser welding, the laser heat will cause part distortion. This usually needs to perform a fully thermal-mechanical coupled analysis to solve the problem. I didn't see any example about this. I appreciate if anyone could explain this.

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Jingfu
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Re: Thermal/mechanical Coupled analysis

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Hi,

I think this is possible, although I never did it myself.
Have a look at tutorial 9 in the ElmerTutorials_nonGUI.pdf which you will find here: http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/physics/elmer/doc
There is also the Models Manual and other documentation which is worth consulting.

HTH,

Matthias
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Re: Thermal/mechanical Coupled analysis

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Thanks very much, Matthias. Tutorial 9 looks great, I will try it and post update here later.

Thanks,
Jingfu
mzenker wrote:Hi,

I think this is possible, although I never did it myself.
Have a look at tutorial 9 in the ElmerTutorials_nonGUI.pdf which you will find here: http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/physics/elmer/doc
There is also the Models Manual and other documentation which is worth consulting.

HTH,

Matthias
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