Our senior capstone project involves building a test rig with a drop hammer to exite a fixture that will mount electronic components to simulate a pyro shock to them. We have creo avaliable at our school, yet we have no experience with simulate only with the CAD part of creo. To begin we don't really understand where we should start to be able to get some simulated results to improve our experimental model. I have a test plate fixture and we can do a static analysis using a pressure force to simulate the hammer impact, but I know this is going to be vastly different given a dynamic impact. I can also run a modal analysis, but only with a low number of modes, if I try to select a range of frequency simulate runs forever. I can also do the dynamic analysis and do the shock part, but don't really understand what its giving me.
So my question is, does simulate have the capabilities I need to be able to vary input parameters? (impact force, impact location, boundary constaints on fixture plate) In order to see what effect this will have to improve the experimental model. Im also not sure exactly what outputs simulate will give us? (an acceleration response of the fixture?) It would be nice if simulate would actually give you a Shock reponse spectrum given a certain impact? Our project goal is to be able to correlate the test inputs to the acceleration output and corresponding shock response spectrum. They would like a more systematic and efficient approach in lab testing to be able to know what input variables they have to put in to get the correct shock output they are looking for.
Thanks for the help.