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Element Quality Calculation: MoldFlow

Element Quality Calculation: MoldFlow

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Element Quality Calculation: MoldFlow

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Additional element checks not listed here are not part of the solver’s normal set of checks, and therefore use HyperMesh check methods.

 

Checks used for both 2D and 3D elements

The following check applies to both types of elements, but when applied to 3D elements they are generally applied to each face of the element.  The value of the worst face is reported as the 3D element’s overall quality value.

Aspect Ratio

This check is only applied to triangles, with quadrilaterals given a value of:

MF_aspect

This is the same value obtained from an equilateral triangle, and is assigned to quads to prevent HyperMesh from misinterpreting a quad as a badly formed triangular element.

MoldFlow calculates a triangle’s aspect ratio by squaring the longest edge of the triangle, and dividing the result by twice the triangle’s area.  1.0 denotes a perfect equilateral triangle.

When applied to 3D elements, the aspect ratio is the ratio between the longest and shortest edges of the tetrahedral element.

 

Checks Used Only for 3D Elements

The following check only applies to 3D elements.

Vol. Aspect Ratio

The volume aspect ratio is defined by finding the perpendicular height h of each node, and then dividing the longest edge length L by the shortest height h and multiplying by the square root of 1.5:

MF_volume_aspect

This results in an equilateral tetrahedron having a volume aspect ratio of 1.5.  Non-tetrahedral elements are assigned a value of 1.0.

 

 

See Also:

How Element Quality is Calculated

Element Quality Calculation: HyperMesh