Do a Static Stress Analysis

Use the stress analysis environment to analyze your assembly or part design and evaluate different options quickly. You can analyze a model under different conditions using various materials, loads and constraints (also called boundary conditions), and then view the results. You have a choice of performing a static analysis or a frequency (also called modal) analysis with associated mode shapes. After you view and evaluate the results, you can change your model and rerun the analysis to see the effect your changes produce.

Typical Stress Analysis workflow

1. Create Simulations and specify their properties.
2. Exclude components not required for simulation.
3. Assign materials. If you define a modal simulation, you can run it now. There is enough information to see the natural frequencies.
4. Add Constraints.
5. Add Loads.
6. Specify contact conditions, an optional step.
7. Specify and preview the mesh, an optional step.
8. Run the simulation.
9. View and Interpret the Results

When you modify the model or various inputs for the simulation, it can be necessary to update the mesh or other analysis parameters. A red lightning bolt icon next to the browser node indicates areas that need an update. Right-click the node and click Update to make them current with respect to the modifications. For the Results node, run the Simulate command to update results.