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Analyze Models
After you define your model, you use the stress analysis environment to prepare the model
for analysis. You define the materials, loads, and constraints for the condition you want to
test, and establish contact conditions and mesh preferences. Then, you perform an analysis,
also called simulation, of the model.
This chapter explains how to define materials, loads, constraints, contacts, and meshing, and
then run your analysis.
Do a Static Stress Analysis
Use the stress analysis environment to analyze your assembly or part design
and evaluate different options quickly. You can analyze a model under different
conditions using various materials, loads and constraints (also called boundary
conditions), and then view the results. You have a choice of performing a static
analysis or a frequency (also called modal) analysis with associated mode shapes.
After you view and evaluate the results, you can change your model and rerun
the analysis to see the effect your changes produce.
Typical Stress Analysis workflow
1 Create Simulations and specify their properties.
2 Exclude components not required for simulation.
3 Assign materials. If you define a modal simulation, you can run it now.
There is enough information to see the natural frequencies.
4 Add Constraints.
5 Add Loads.
6 Specify contact conditions, an optional step.
7 Specify and preview the mesh, an optional step.
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