The invention discloses an automatic generation method for a
quadrilateral finite element mesh of a
pitting corrosion damage cylindrical shell. The automatic generation method for the
quadrilateral finite element mesh of the
pitting corrosion damage cylindrical shell includes that carrying out parameterization set on key geometrical sizes of a
pitting corrosion damage cylindrical
shell model in a
finite element software, constructing three standard basic segments of an end perfecting region, a pitting
corrosion region and a pitting
corrosion spacer region of the cylindrical shell through segregate expression, constructing the whole geometrical model of the pitting
corrosion damage cylindrical shell with a multi-layer pitting corrosion region, the pitting corrosion spacer region and the end perfecting region through
copying, translation and division methods, grouping the geometrical model according to pit positions and size characteristics of each region, setting the mesh division number of the region boundary of each grouping object, using mapping MAPPED and AMAP to divide the whole cylindrical
shell model, and generating the whole finite
element model of the
quadrilateral mesh unit. The automatic generation method for the quadrilateral finite element mesh of the pitting corrosion damage cylindrical shell solves the microscopic pitting corrosion damage description problem in a
macro-
scale structure and improves the solving precision and solving efficiency of the simulating calculation.