US 9,791,356 B2Granted

Joint analyzing method, product designing method, and joint analyzing system

AssigneeSubaru Corporation

InventorsKazuaki Hirakawa, Megumi Hiraki, Kousaburou Akiba

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Abstract

A joint analyzing method includes: performing a data measurement; performing a detailed analysis; performing a simplified analysis; performing a first repetition analysis in which the detailed analysis is repeated while modifying a first analysis model in which geometry of a joint surrounding region is modeled and an analysis technique in the detailed analysis, until a data measurement result and a detailed analysis result are brought into agreement; and performing a second repetition analysis in which the simplified analysis that takes into consideration an initial internal load of at least one junction in a load non-applied state obtained in the first repetition analysis is repeated while modifying a second analysis model rougher in element division of the geometry than the first analysis model and an analysis technique in the simplified analysis, until the data measurement result and a simplified analysis result are brought into agreement.

Claims3

Dependent claims

A product designing method, comprising:

performing, by a testing apparatus, a data measurement in which measurement of data on one or more of stress, strain, and deformation of a joint in each of a load non-applied state and a load applied state is performed, the joint joining two or more members together by at least one junction, the load non-applied state being a state in which an external load is unapplied to the joint, and the load applied state being a state in which the external load is applied to the joint;
performing, by an analyzer, a first analysis in which a finite element method analysis is performed using a first analysis model in which geometry of a joint surrounding region is modeled;
performing, by the analyzer, a second analysis in which a finite element method analysis is performed using a second analysis model in which the at least one junction is eliminated or simplified and geometry of the joint surrounding region is meshed rougher in element division than the geometry meshed in the first analysis model in the first analysis;
performing, by the analyzer, a first repetition analysis in which the first analysis is repeated while modifying the first analysis model and an analysis technique of the finite element method in the first analysis, until a measurement result of the data measurement and an analysis result of the first analysis are brought into agreement with each other within a first predetermined error range, the first repetition analysis obtaining an initial internal load of the at least one junction in the load non-applied state and allowing the second analysis to take into consideration the initial internal load;
performing, by the analyzer, a second repetition analysis in which the second analysis that takes into consideration the initial internal load is repeated while modifying the second analysis model and an analysis technique of the finite element method in the second analysis, until the measurement result of the data measurement and an analysis result of the second analysis are brought into agreement with each other within a second predetermined error range;
using, by the analyzer, the second analysis model of the joint and the analysis technique of the finite element method in the second analysis which are obtained upon establishment of the second repetition analysis;
and
performing, by the analyzer, designing and analysis of a product having the joint.

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A joint analyzing system, comprising:

a data measurement unit that performs measurement of data on one or more of stress, strain, and deformation of a joint in each of a load non-applied state and a load applied state, the joint joining two or more members together by at least one junction, the load non-applied state being a state in which an external load is unapplied to the joint, and the load applied state being a state in which the external load is applied to the joint;
and
an analyzer that performs:
a first analysis in which a finite element method analysis is performed by a first analysis model in which geometry of a joint surrounding region is modeled;
a second analysis in which a finite element method analysis is performed by a second analysis model in which the at least one junction is eliminated or simplified and geometry of the joint surrounding region is meshed rougher in element division than the geometry in the first analysis model in the first analysis;
a first repetition analysis in which the first analysis is repeated while modifying the first analysis model and an analysis technique of the finite element method in the first analysis, until a measurement result of the data measurement and an analysis result of the first analysis are brought into agreement with each other within a first predetermined error range, the first repetition analysis obtaining an initial internal load of the at least one junction in the load non-applied state and allowing the second analysis to take into consideration the initial internal load;
a second repetition analysis in which the second analysis that takes into consideration the initial internal load is repeated while modifying the second analysis model and an analysis technique of the finite element method in the second analysis, until the measurement result of the data measurement and an analysis result of the second analysis are brought into agreement with each other within a second predetermined error range;
and
designing and analyzing a product having the joint by using the second analysis model of the joint and the analysis technique of the finite element method in the second analysis which are obtained upon establishment of the second repetition analysis.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/971,654Filed 16 Dec 2015
Priority: JP 2014-25724719 Dec 2014
Published: US 2016/0178492 A123 Jun 2016
Granted: 17 Oct 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G01N 3/02
Investigating strength properties of solid materials by application of mechanical stress: details
G01N 3/00
Investigating strength properties of solid materials by application of mechanical stress
G06F 30/23
Design optimisation, verification or simulation: using finite element methods [FEM] or finite difference methods [FDM]
G01N 2203/0216
Theories, calculations: finite elements