Please can anyone help me with this as it is really frustrating me ! I am tring to run a simulation on a bracket load in Inventor 2012, I run through all the steps fine but when am I asked to apply force I try to click the CENTRE of the hole in the bracket but Inventor refuses to let me, I can only select the edges ! Can anyone help please (see attached pic)
Since i am now construct on a level luffing crane, i would like to know if i use the dynamic simulation, when I tried to apply a load force, only one unknown force could be calculated. I would like to know do Inventor provide a kind of force equilibrium or free body diagram by showing all the force associated.
It's slightly difficult to tell, but are you working with the stress analysis tools in Inventor? If so, you should be able to change the points for XYZ to give it a different location. You should also be able to select it based off of where you click initially. I normally select to add a force, then Inventor allows me to choose where I want the force to go, as well as the direction, the magnitude, and any axis I want the force to be parallel to. (For reference, I am using Inventor 2017.)
The remote force tool is intended to be used to position a force somewhere in the free space outside of your model.
This is done by using the remote point dialog box. When you select a face or feature, the force will be applied at the given dimensions away from this face or feature.
I think your answer " based on where you click initially" may be the clue.I will give that a try and see what happens.I do understand that by changing the xyz co-ordinates that this will reposition the force,it was the original location that was the problem.
You are right, I tested it on the model. I applied a remote force placed in the same place first to one face, then to the other. The calculation results are as expected under the action of this force on the selected faces.
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I was trying to see if my spring would react as expected if I were to pull that other part, and I figured out that adding a force to said part was the thing to do. So I went to "dynamic simulation" but the "force" button is grayed out. Can someone help me with this ? Sorry if this is kind of a dumb question, I'm a bit new to Inventor.
But the appearances didn't update visually. When I open one of the Parts and open the Appearance browser, the little preview thumbnail looks correct. If I rename the Appearance (just add a "2" on the end or something), the part itself then decides to update to the correct appearance. I can then re-name it back and the correct appearance sticks.
But I don't want to do this for every part in my assembly. Is there some way to force an Appearance "refresh" for all my Parts all at once, from the assembly level, so they display the updated Appearance?
I have a simple shaft with a radial load applied to one end and a fixed constraint on the opposite end. When I run the analysis on it, I am confused about what it reports for the "Reaction Force Magnitude". Since I only have one radial load (500 lbs in the Y-direction), I would expect the reaction force to be equal and opposite to this, but it is not even close.
I believe there was a bug somewhere. Inventor FEA is multi-threaded. Probably there was a threading error or memory corruption (which I suffer a lot myself). If you find a way to reproduce it, please let us know.
Results from Inv are much different than from Nastran In-CAD. The Nastran In-CAD results look more like what it should be. The value I roughly calculated is 7643 psi. I just don't know what I am missing with the Inventor FEA model.
I think you need to specify the exact direction of the load. I got the same result as yours if no direction is specify. Though it looks like there is only one direction, it is actually around the cylinder, so the upper portion shrink in size. If I specify the direction of the force, the result is similar to NASTRAN. Please share the file, if the result is still different.
In physics, a force is an influence that can cause an object to change its velocity, i.e., to accelerate, meaning a change in speed or direction, unless counterbalanced by other forces. The concept of force makes the everyday notion of pushing or pulling mathematically precise. Because the magnitude and direction of a force are both important, force is a vector quantity. The SI unit of force is the newton (N), and force is often represented by the symbol F.[1]
Force plays a central role in classical mechanics, figuring in all three of Newton's laws of motion, which specify that the force on an object with an unchanging mass is equal to the product of the object's mass and the acceleration that it undergoes. Types of forces often encountered in classical mechanics include elastic, frictional, contact or "normal" forces, and gravitational. The rotational version of force is torque, which produces changes in the rotational speed of an object. In an extended body, each part often applies forces on the adjacent parts; the distribution of such forces through the body is the internal mechanical stress. In equilibrium these stresses cause no acceleration of the body as the forces balance one another. If these are not in equilibrium they can cause deformation of solid materials, or flow in fluids.
In modern physics, which includes relativity and quantum mechanics, the laws governing motion are revised to rely on fundamental interactions as the ultimate origin of force. However, the understanding of force provided by classical mechanics is useful for practical purposes.[2]
Philosophers in antiquity used the concept of force in the study of stationary and moving objects and simple machines, but thinkers such as Aristotle and Archimedes retained fundamental errors in understanding force. In part, this was due to an incomplete understanding of the sometimes non-obvious force of friction and a consequently inadequate view of the nature of natural motion.[3] A fundamental error was the belief that a force is required to maintain motion, even at a constant velocity. Most of the previous misunderstandings about motion and force were eventually corrected by Galileo Galilei and Sir Isaac Newton. With his mathematical insight, Newton formulated laws of motion that were not improved for over two hundred years.[1]
Since antiquity the concept of force has been recognized as integral to the functioning of each of the simple machines. The mechanical advantage given by a simple machine allowed for less force to be used in exchange for that force acting over a greater distance for the same amount of work. Analysis of the characteristics of forces ultimately culminated in the work of Archimedes who was especially famous for formulating a treatment of buoyant forces inherent in fluids.[3]
Aristotle provided a philosophical discussion of the concept of a force as an integral part of Aristotelian cosmology. In Aristotle's view, the terrestrial sphere contained four elements that come to rest at different "natural places" therein. Aristotle believed that motionless objects on Earth, those composed mostly of the elements earth and water, were in their natural place when on the ground, and that they stay that way if left alone. He distinguished between the innate tendency of objects to find their "natural place" (e.g., for heavy bodies to fall), which led to "natural motion", and unnatural or forced motion, which required continued application of a force.[7] This theory, based on the everyday experience of how objects move, such as the constant application of a force needed to keep a cart moving, had conceptual trouble accounting for the behavior of projectiles, such as the flight of arrows. An archer causes the arrow to move at the start of the flight, and it then sails through the air even though no discernible efficient cause acts upon it. Aristotle was aware of this problem and proposed that the air displaced through the projectile's path carries the projectile to its target. This explanation requires a continuous medium such as air to sustain the motion.[8]
Though Aristotelian physics was criticized as early as the 6th century,[9][10] its shortcomings would not be corrected until the 17th century work of Galileo Galilei, who was influenced by the late medieval idea that objects in forced motion carried an innate force of impetus. Galileo constructed an experiment in which stones and cannonballs were both rolled down an incline to disprove the Aristotelian theory of motion. He showed that the bodies were accelerated by gravity to an extent that was independent of their mass and argued that objects retain their velocity unless acted on by a force, for example friction.[11] Galileo's idea that force is needed to change motion rather than to sustain it, further improved upon by Isaac Beeckman, Ren Descartes, and Pierre Gassendi, became a key principle of Newtonian physics.[12]
In the early 17th century, before Newton's Principia, the term "force" (Latin: vis) was applied to many physical and non-physical phenomena, e.g., for an acceleration of a point. The product of a point mass and the square of its velocity was named vis viva (live force) by Leibniz. The modern concept of force corresponds to Newton's vis motrix (accelerating force).[13]
Sir Isaac Newton described the motion of all objects using the concepts of inertia and force. In 1687, Newton published his magnum opus, Philosophi Naturalis Principia Mathematica.[1][14] In this work Newton set out three laws of motion that have dominated the way forces are described in physics to this day.[14] The precise ways in which Newton's laws are expressed have evolved in step with new mathematical approaches.[15]
Newton's Third Law is a result of applying symmetry to situations where forces can be attributed to the presence of different objects. The third law means that all forces are interactions between different bodies.[18][19] and thus that there is no such thing as a unidirectional force or a force that acts on only one body.
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