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Table 7 Mesh details for the FEM model

From: Thermal analysis of AISI 1020 low carbon steel plate agglutinated by gas tungsten arc welding technique: a computational study of weld dilution using finite element method

Mesh properties

Mesh details

Mesh type

Solid mesh

Mesher used

Blended curvature-based mesh

Jacobian points

4 points

Maximum element size

3.19061 mm

Minimum element size

0.588517 mm

Mesh quality

High

Remesh failed parts with incompatible mesh

Off

Total nodes

49,100

Total elements

32,388

Maximum aspect ratio

10.105

% of elements with aspect ratio < 3

97.7

% of elements with aspect ratio > 10

0.0124

% of distorted elements (Jacobian)

0

Time to complete mesh (hh; mm; ss)

00:00:03