Overview

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You will learn how to use Adams/Flex to incorporate flexibility into your Adams models. The course is primarily focused on using component modal synthesis via the Modal Neutral File (MNF) and Adams/View. Previous FEA experience is a plus, but not a requirement. You will be comfortable using Adams/Flex after taking this course.

Objectives:

-  Introduction to Adams Flex

-  Familiarize with requirements of a flexible body for replacement, modes of a flexible body, the concept of modal superposition, flex body kinematics and loads.

-  Learn how to edit flex body properties, access mass and modal information, access nodal data, positioning options within Adams model and plotting of results.

-  Understand joints and forces supported by Adams Flex, creation of dummy parts in special cases and flex to flex swap

-  Learn Flex Toolkit, MTX files, optimizing MNF files using the Flex Toolkit, translating and mirroring .mnf files via the MNFXFORM command-line interface, and exporting FEA loads.

-  Familiarize with flex body, marker and matrix statements in Adams solver command language.

-  Learn Modeling Flexible Body Contacts and apply distributed loads on flexible body in Adams using exported finite element load cases.

-  Performing modal stress recovery in Adams using Adams Durability plugin.

-  Learn Fatigue Life Analysis.

-  Generating Modal Neutral File using MSC Nastran.

-  Learn Viewflex process and use run time flexible body switching.

-  Validating Your Flexible Body.

-  Understand FE Modeling consideration.

-  Modeling FE Part

-  Learn how to model MaxFlex flexible body in Adams, based on Nastran SOL400 solver.

Pre-requisites

Adams Full Simulation users: ADM701- Complete Multibody Dynamics Analysis with Adams

Topics

·   Welcome to Adams Flex Training

·   Introducing Adams Flex

·   Theoretical Background

·   Replacing Rigid Bodies (Part I)

·   Replacing Rigid Bodies (Part II)

·   Optimizing MNFs and Exporting Loads

·   Using Flexible Body Statements

·   Contacts and Modal Forces

·   Stress Recovery with Adams/Durability

·   Fatigue Analysis

·   MNF Generation in MSC Nastran

·   ViewFlex

·   Validating and Debugging

·   Modeling Considerations

·   FE_PART: Geometric Nonlinearity

·   MaxFlex: Geometrical and Material Nonlinearity