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 Contents

Introduction
About This Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Course Design Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Course Length. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Using this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Laboratory Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
About the Training Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
User Interface Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Conventions Used in this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Use of Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
More SOLIDWORKS Training Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Local User Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
What is SOLIDWORKS Simulation?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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Lesson 1:
Vibration of a Pipe
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Problem Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Static Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Frequency Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Dynamic Analysis(Slow Force) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Linear Dynamic Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Dynamic Analysis (Fast Force). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Exercise 1: Vibration of Cantilever Beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Exercise 2: Shock Load of PCB Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Lesson 2:
Transient Shock Analysis According to MILS-STD-810H
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Problem Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Mass Participation Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Cumulative Mass Participation Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Damping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Viscous Damping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Time Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Model with Remote Mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Remote Mass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Exercise 3: Transient Analysis of Alternator Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Maximum Number of Time Increments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Lesson 3:
Harmonic Analysis of a Bracket
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Project Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Harmonic Analysis Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Single DOF Oscillator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Harmonic Analysis of a Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Harmonic Study Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Exercise 4: Harmonic Analysis of Alternator Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

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Lesson 4:
Response Spectrum Analysis
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Response Spectrum Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Response Spectrum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Response Spectrum Analysis Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Project Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Response Spectrum Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Mode Combination Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Lesson 5:
Random Vibration Analysis According to MIL-STD-810G
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Project Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Distributed Mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Random Vibration Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Power Spectral Density Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Overall Level of Acceleration PSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Decibels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Random Study Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Advanced Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
RMS Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
PSD Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
1s, 2s, 3s, … Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Exercise 5: Random Vibration Analysis of
an Electronics Enclosure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Exercise 6: Circuit Board Fatigue Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Exercise 7: Random Vibration Analysis of a Starter Motor . . . . . . . 146
Lesson 6:
Random Vibration Fatigue
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Project Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Random Vibration Fatigue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Material Properties, S-N Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Random Vibration Fatigue Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Exercise 8: Random Vibration Fatigue of a Cantilever Beam . . . . . 163

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Lesson 7:
Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of an Electronic Enclosure
Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Project Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Linear Dynamic Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Linear vs. Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Rayleigh Damping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Time Integration Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Iterative Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

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