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I am stuck! I want to perform an analysis on a press fit in Creo Simulate 2.0 but I am unsure of how to do this. Please help it would be greatly appreciated.
You have to do it by appling a thermal load that will minic the amount of press fit you will get and then you can bring that thermal load into structural as a MEC/T Load.
You can create press fit simulation in two ways:
1. Create Temperature Load with uniform model temperature of 0 degrees and Reference Temperature of 0 degrees.
Create Contact Region between surfaces, that would have interference fit.
Run Static Analysis which includes Nonlinear Option Contacts.
Also see topic: Modeling Interference Fits
2. Create Contact Region between surfaces, that would have interference fit.
Run Static Analyis and check the option: For Press Fit, Ignore Interpenetration Larger Than. In the field type a value that is greater than the size of you Interference Fit.
Also see topic: Press fit check box
Let's say I wanted to see what happened to these contact stresses if the assembly was cooled to -40C after being pressed in at room temperature. How would I run that? TIA
Thanks skunks...It's very helpful to have an example like this.