Structural-Thermal Analysis of Welded Joints Using the ANSYS Workbench Platform

Abstract

This paper presents a summary of a live demonstration for a numerical simulation of laser welding process using Ansys Workbench platform. The main steps of this simulation are: creating the geometric model, mesh generation, defining contacts, applying initial conditions and boundary conditions, defining thermal loads, general setting and solving the transient thermal analysis and finally the coupling of this analysis with a structural one to predict stresses due to the thermal field generated by the thermal analysis. After solving, the results are visualized and interpreted.

Building internal heat dissipation of special shaped columns composed of concrete-filled square steel tubes based on thermal bridge models

“…ANSYS software has excellent performance in engineering thermal analysis (Vladulescu, 2018; Yazdian et al , 2018), which can calculate the temperature of each node of the structure based on the heat balance equation and derive the thermal parameters. In this study, ANSYS is used to analyze the thermal bridge inside the building, and its finite element equilibrium equation is: …”