I am working with a complex structure with formed sheet metal and tubes. Wall thickness of ~.030" with linear dimensions on the scale of 8 to 15". Definitely a problem that would benifit from a shell model.
However, there seems to be no easy way to collapse the solid forms down to shells/boundaries.
And with over a 1000 boundaries, manually selecting the outer or inner surface of the solids seems to be a very tedious task that will be prone to errors.
Is this the only way in comsol to set up a shell model?
I rememeber 10 years back using Pro/Mechanica being able to pick a thin walled part and collapse it's boundaries down to either a midplane, inner or outer boundary.
Comsol does not have anything like this?
However, there seems to be no easy way to collapse the solid forms down to shells/boundaries.
And with over a 1000 boundaries, manually selecting the outer or inner surface of the solids seems to be a very tedious task that will be prone to errors.
Is this the only way in comsol to set up a shell model?
I rememeber 10 years back using Pro/Mechanica being able to pick a thin walled part and collapse it's boundaries down to either a midplane, inner or outer boundary.
Comsol does not have anything like this?