FEA ANALYSIS

The FEA analysis depicted first was a coursework that had an intent of teaching students the basics of such analysis when analysing the behaviour of stainless steel specimen, under tensional and compressional forces. Through this project I learned how to use Ansys since it proved to be better and more accurate for these types of analysis (until failure), in comparison with Fusion. These animations show behaviour until failure for both directions of deformation. You can also see the stress-strain plots for both of these deformations, alongside the range of values the specimen experienced.

Below are shown pictures of the specimen somewhere in the middle of the deformation process and its very end.

We can conclude that when compressed necking will occur on its ends. When tensile forces are acting on it however, fracture will happen towards the middle of the specimen, by gradually reducing the material until it thinned to the point at which it breaks apart in two pieces.

Above are done two of static stress analysis. For these two models and its purposes, I estimated an average force that would be acting on the parts of their bodies therefore done an FEA analysis to observe and test their behaviour under these loads. On the pictures it is visible where and how high stress value, the body would experience under the given  conditions.

In this thermal analysis I took an average value of the temperature of the fire and observed the behaviour of the prototype of the I/O Room project - which is spoken about on the next page.