Appraisal of open software for finite element simulation of 2D metal sheet laser cut.
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2016-03-21
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Springer-Verlag France
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FEA simulation of thermal metal cutting is central to interactive design and manufacturing. It is therefore relevant to assess the applicability of FEA open software to simulate 2D heat transfer in metal sheet laser cuts. Application of open source code (e.g. FreeFem++, FEniCS, MOOSE) makes possible additional scenarios (e.g. parallel, CUDA, etc.), with lower costs. However, a precise assessment is required on the scenarios in which open software can be a sound alternative to a commercial one. This article contributes in this regard, by presenting a comparison of the aforementioned freeware FEM software for the simulation of heat transfer in thin (i.e. 2D) sheets, subject to a gliding laser point source. We use the commercial ABAQUS software as the reference to compare such open software. A convective linear thin sheet heat transfer model, with and without material removal is used. This article does not intend a full design of computer experiments. Our partial assessment shows that the thin sheet approximation turns to be adequate in terms of the relative error for linear alumina sheets. Under mesh resolutions better than 10e−5 m , the open and reference software temperature differ in at most 1 % of the temperature prediction. Ongoing work includes adaptive re-meshing, nonlinearities, sheet stress analysis and Mach (also called ‘relativistic’) effects.
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Appraisal of open software for finite element simulation of 2D metal sheet laser cut. Daniel Mejia , Aitor Moreno, Oscar Ruiz-Salguero, Inigo Barandiaran International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM), ISSN 1955-2505, doi: 10.1007/s12008-016-0308-5, http://link.springer.com/journal/12008, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12008-016-0308-5, pages 1–12, published online 21-03-2016, Springer Verlag France SAS. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12008-016-0308-5