topic Simulating water pressure on a swimming pool end wall in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Simulating water pressure on a swimming pool end wall

dave — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 10:38:21 GMT

Chatting with a friend about what thickness a poly-carbonate wall would need to be for a swimming pool with one end transparent, I thought it would be fun to mock this up in Fusion 360 and have a go for the first time with simulation but I can't seem to get this to work.

The design is here.

http://a360.co/2g81YjG

The main walls I have chosen granite and made them very thick because we only want to check the stresses on the poly-carbonate wall.

With the design as it is, it reports that it is over engineered but even if I choose a 1mm wall thickness it gives the same results and says it is over engineered.

How best to do this type of test.

Re: Simulating water pressure on a swimming pool end wall

innovatenate — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:33:37 GMT

I think the issue is with the surface point selection

If I change that I get plastic deformation(linear static failure) for a 1 mm thick wall.

Check out the attached design file for more info.

I hope that helps.

Re: Simulating water pressure on a swimming pool end wall

dave — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 02:53:19 GMT

Thanks, that seems to work better. I've redesigned the size and using your information I get a better result.