Tutorial conclusion: Thermal stress analysis

In this tutorial, you

• Created a Thermal stress study to determine the temperature- and pressure- induced stresses in a disk brake rotor

• Eliminated geometry that is irrelevant to the analysis, to reduce the analysis time

• Applied constraints on the 1/8th symmetry plane faces to fully constrain the free-body movement of the model without impeding the expected thermal expansion.

• Applied pressure and thermal loads to represent the experience of the brake rotor during use

• Solved the analysis and examined the results to determine whether the brake rotor yields as a result of the loads.

  

  Full model of a disk brake rotor model (left). Safety factor result on 1/8th model variant (right).