Wednesday 15 January 2014

Simulation of Impact of a glass slab on floor

Date: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Designer: Engr. Ammar Aziz                                                                                                      
Study name: Impact Testing ; Analysis type: Drop Test

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Description                                                                                           Impact Testing of a glass slabs which falls from 0.5m onto a rigid floor.

Model Information:

  • It is a solid body.
  • Mass:0.0954223 kg
  • Volume:3.88274e-005 m^3
  • Density:2457.6 kg/m^3
  • Weight:0.935139 N

Analysis Type:

  • Drop Test

Mesh Type:

  • Solid Mesh

Large Displacement

  • ON

Setup Information

Type

Drop height

Drop height from lowest point

0.5 m

Gravity

9.81 m/s^2

Gravity Reference

Face<1>

Friction Coefficient

0

Target Stiffness

Rigid target

Critical Damping Ratio

0

Result Options:

Solution Time After Impact

51.02 microsec

Save Results Starting From

0 microsec

No. of Plots

25

No. of Graph Steps Per Plot

20

Number of vertex

0

Units:

Unit system:

SI (MKS)

Length/Displacement

mm

Temperature

Kelvin

Angular velocity

Rad/sec

Pressure/Stress

N/mm^2 (MPa)

Material Properties:

Name:

Glass

Model type:

Linear Elastic Isotropic

Default failure criterion:

Mohr-Coulomb Stress

Elastic modulus:

6.8935e+010 N/m^2

Poisson's ratio:

0.23

Mass density:

2457.6 kg/m^3

Shear modulus:

2.8022e+010 N/m^2

Thermal expansion coefficient:

9e-006 /Kelvin

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Mesh information:

Mesh type

Solid Mesh

Mesher Used:

Standard mesh

Automatic Transition:

Off

Include Mesh Auto Loops:

Off

Jacobian points

4 Points

Element Size

0.00338735 m

Tolerance

0.000169367 m

Mesh Quality

High

Mesh information: Details

Total Nodes

12406

Total Elements

11600

Maximum Aspect Ratio

23.421

% of elements with Aspect Ratio < 3

96.8

% of elements with Aspect Ratio > 10

0.343

% of distorted elements(Jacobian)

0

Time to complete mesh(hh;mm;ss):

00:00:05

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Study Results

Name

Type

Min

Max

Stress1

VON: von Mises Stress

0.880476 N/mm^2 (MPa)

37.404 N/mm^2 (MPa)

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Name

Type

Min

Max

Displacement1

URES: Resultant Displacement

0.0745154 mm

0.0832629 mm

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