ENME 414 Computer Aided Design

The instructor is providing you with instructions of using Pro/MECHANICA. Please read these instructions and use Pro/MECHANICA to perform finite element analysis. You should feel comfortable to use Pro/MECHANICA because you have gained the fundamentals of engineering analyses using the Pro/ENGINEER design system. Team work is encouraged for discussing how to use Pro/MECHANICA. However, completion of Homework 8 should be through your individual effort.

In homework assignment 7, you used a combination of Pro/ENGINEER and ANSYS to do a thin wall plate analysis. In homework assignment 8, you are asked to do the same thin wall plate analysis, but using Pro/MECHANICA. You are asked to compare the two sets of results obtained from using the two different methods.

1. Analyze the thin wall plate problem described in homework 7 using Pro/MECHANICA. Your work should be as detailed as possible. The minimum requirement includes the stress distribution along the longitudinal direction and the deflection in the vertical direction.
   
   

   
   

2. Compare the results you get in homework 7 and homework 8.
3. Since the geometry and the load case both are symmetrical, you should think about a set of constraints on the central plane to simplify the solution procedure. This is critical when you use FEA. A common approach would be to analyze a half of the whole structure.

   
   

   
4. You should use the GLUE system to print your results. It is important that you feel comfortable with printers available to you. You may use the ADML printer. For color prints, you take care of them by yourself.