I am using AWI (Abaqus Welding Interface) for analyzing 50mm thick steel plates. Those contain two weld lines crossed so I added two contacted parts into one assembly as shown in the attached picture and CAE file. Please have a look at it.
However, it seems that AWI only supports one part per a model. Also, AWI does not support interaction (contacts)
I need to reflect weld sequences for two crossed weld lines.
Please advise me to get some solution to this.
PS.. I thought 50mm thick plate weld simulation should be done with multi-path which needs a lot of time-consuming manual element picking. Is it still valid to model this think plate with one path?
Dear Jaeho Lee,
Regarding your first question, I think you can implement weld sequences for two crossed weld lines through writing an ANSYS APDL code. That will give you high flexibility to simulate two welding paths at two different locations.
Concerning your second question, your are trying to weld thick plate (50 mm) and that should be simulated with multi pass procedure.
No need to have different parts of each weld pass bead. Use model change to allocate each bead a section. You won't have to pick element by element but choose relvant area.
Thanks Mr. Ahn, I am using AWI plugin and it helps me to pick the element or cell faces to choose relevant paths in a row. However, it does not allow me to input the volumetric heat energy but only the melting temperature.
Would you please link some information to make heat input as volumetric heat energy for the multipath welding analysis?
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