I am trying to simulate squeezing a simple u shaped spring with simulation Xpress 2011, no matter what pressure or force value I add the spring never moves more that a certain length. The spring sides never touch each other. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Jerry,
Thank you very much for replying, but I am new to the simulation world and i have been looking exactly where to change any deflection factors in simulation express, and only place I see is in the materials but that only allows you to view.
Thanks,
Bob Artura
You cannot change the deflection scale factor in xpress. You can look at the values in the URES displacement chart to see what the resultant displacement is. Xpress also creates a .OUT asci text file in the same folder as all the other files it creates. You can look at this .OUT file in notepad to find max displacements in X, Y, and Z directions.
Thank you Wayne for your response that clears it all up.
Robert,
Simulation Xpress does an automatic scaling of the deflection. Usually the deflection is multiplied by some factor to make it visible. In your case, the factor may be less than one. Check your numeric results and compare to the gap between the ends.
Jerry Steiger