Considering the Heat Affected Zone (HAZ) of welding joint, the residual strain be-haviors of material under constraint and temperature circulation, as well as the activating mechanism of welding process, this paper addresses a new type welding element for numerical simulation of welding deformation, which is called the LEWE (the local equivalent welding element). This element can describe the basic char-acteristics of welded seam: the local position points of inherent strain, the equiva-lent size, the bending radius (or bending angle) from inherent strain, etc. It could be used to predict the welding deformation of plate-type structure. The comparisons between the computed deflection of welded plate and its experiment measurement are present. The results showed that the LEWE possesses a potential to simulate the deformation of welding process high-efficiently and precisely.
The design and manufacture of the main drift chamber（MDC） and the electro-magnetic calorimeter are most important issues in Beijing electron-positron collider upgraded projects. The whole mass of electro-magnetic calorimeter （EMC） in BESIII is 40 t, thus high stiffness, strength and dynamical properties are required for the design of entire structural of electro-magnetic calorimeter. Based on numerical technique, the strength and the dynamical properties of EMC are analyzed, which provide theoretical reference for the design of entire structural of EMC. The MDC is composed of the elements with 28 680 pre-stressed high-sensitive wires and during the assembly the wires are stringed layer by layer. The stretching forces of the wires vary continuously and couple with each other in the whole process. The modeling technique with high precision （especially ＂element birth and death＂） is carefully used to study the stress state during the process of assembly. So the variations of the stretching force of the wire are investigated, and several design schemes are evaluated and optimized. The research results have been adopted in the Beijing electron-positron collider＇s new project directly.
