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LNM IIT, Jaipur

FEM LAB: 1_Statically indeterminate bar

A bar ABC is fixed at A and there is a gap of 1.5 mm between C and the fixed support
below C. Segment AB is of length 1500 mm and its area is 150 mm 2. The segment BC is
of length 3000 mm and its area is 240 mm 2. The modulus of elasticity is 200 kN/mm 2. A
load of 60 kN is applied at B vertically down. Determine the stress developed in the two
segments of the bar and displacement at B. Consider 4 elements.

Solution
Pre-processing
1. Main menu: Preference
a. Turn ON Structural and click OK
2. Main menu: Preprocessor > Element type > Add/Edit/Delete
a. Click Add and select LINK under structural mass
b. Select 3D finit stn 180 and click OK
3. Main menu: Preprocessor
a. > Real constants > Add/Edit/Delete (ANSYS 15)/ > Sections > Link >
Add/Edit/Delete (ANSYS 17)
b. Enter 1 against Real constant set no.
c. Enter 150 against AREA and click Apply
d. Enter 2 against Real constant set no.
e. Enter 240 against AREA and click OK
4. Main menu: Preprocessor > Material props > Material models
a. > Structural > Linear > Elastic > Isotropic
b. Enter 200e3 against EX
c. Enter 0 againt PRXY and click OK
5. Main menu: Preprocessor > Modeling > Create > Nodes > In active CS
a. Enter 1 against NODE and enter 0, 4500, 0 against X, Y, Z and click Apply
b. Enter 2 against NODE and enter 0, 3750, 0 against X, Y, Z and click Apply
c. Enter 3 against NODE and enter 0, 3000, 0 against X, Y, Z and click Apply
d. Enter 4 against NODE and enter 0, 1500, 0 against X, Y, Z and click Apply
e. Enter 5 against NODE and enter 0, 0, 0 against X, Y, Z and click OK
f. Utility menu > Plotctrls > Numbering > Click ON against Node > Click ON
against Elm/Attrib Numbering
6. Main menu: Preprocessor > Modeling > Create > Elements > Elem attributes
a. Check Type Element Type Number as 1 Link 180
b. Check Material Number as 1
c. Check the real constant set number as 1 and click OK
7. Main menu: Preprocessor > Modeling > Create > Elements > Auto numbered >
Thru nodes
a. Click on nodes 1 and 2 and click apply
b. Click on nodes 1 and 2 and click OK
8. Main menu: Preprocessor > Modeling > Create > Elements > Elem attributes
a. Check Type Element Type Number as 1 Link 180
b. Check Material Number as 1
c. Check the real constant set number as 2
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9. Main menu: Preprocessor > Modeling > Create > Elements > Auto numbered >
Thru nodes
a. Click on nodes 3 and 4 and click apply
b. Click on nodes 4 and 5 and click OK
c. Utility menu > Plot > Elements
10.Main menu: Solution > Define loads > Apply > Structural > Displacement > On
nodes
a. Pick node 1 and click apply
b. Select All DOF against Lab2 DOFs to be constrained
c. Enter 0 against VALUE Displacement value and click apply
d. Pick node 5 and click apply
e. Select UX and UZ against Lab2 DOFs to be constrained and deselect All DOF
E
f. Enter 0 against VALUE Displacement value and click apply
g. Pick node 5 and click apply
h. Select UY against Lab2 DOFs to be constrained and deselect UX and UZ
i. Enter -1.5 against VALUE Displacement value and click OK
11.Main menu: Solution > Define loads > Apply > Structural > Force/Moment > On
nodes
a. Pick node 3 and click apply
b. Select FY and enter -60e3 for Lab Direction of Force/Moment and click OK
Processing
12.Main menu: Solution > Solve > Current LS
a. Click OK in the form displayed Solve current load step
b. Click Close in the form displayed note
Post-processing
13.Main menu: General postproc > List results > nodal solution
a. Select DOF solution in the form List nodal solution
b. Select Y component of displacement in the sub menu of DOF solution
c. Click OK and close the form after noting the results
14.Main menu: General postproc > List results > Reaction solu
a. Select against Lab item to be listed, All items in the box of the form List
Reaction Solution
b. Click OK and close the form after noting the results
15.Main menu: General postproc > Element table > Define table
a. Click add in the element table data form
b. Enter MEMBER in the slot against Lab user label for item
c. Scroll down the list in the left box against Item, Comp Results data item
select By Sequence num
d. Select LS from the right box
e. Type 1 in the slot below the right box after LS, click OK
16.Main menu > General postproc > Element table > List Elem Table
a. Click MEMBER in the left box against Lab1-9 Items to be listed
b. Click OK and close the form after noting the results
17.Main menu > General postproc > Element table > Plot Elem Table
a. Click MEMBER
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b. Click OK and note the plot of stress values

Reference
1. R Dhanaraj and K Prabhakaran Nair, Finite Element Method, Oxford University
Press, 2015.