Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A (대한기계학회논문집A)

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Generating FE Mesh Automatically from STL File Model

STL 파일 모델로부터 유한 요소망 자동 생성

  • 박정민 (한국과학기술원 기계공학과) ;
  • 권기연 (한국과학기술원 기계공학과) ;
  • 이병채 (한국과학기술원 기계공학과) ;
  • 채수원 (고려대학교 기계공학과)
  • Published : 2007.07.01
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Abstract

Recently, models in STL files are widely used in reverse engineering processes, CAD systems and analysis systems. However the models have poor geometric quality and include only triangles, so the models are not suitable for the finite element analysis. This paper presents a general method that generates finite element mesh from STL file models. Given triangular meshes, the method estimates triangles and makes clusters which consist of triangles. The clusters are merged by some geometric indices. After merging clusters, the method applies plane meshing algorithm, based on domain decomposition method, to each cluster and then the result plane mesh is projected into the original triangular set. Because the algorithm uses general methods to generate plane mesh, we can obtain both tri and quad meshes unlike previous researches. Some mechanical part models are used to show the validity of the proposed method.

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