ANSYS Sample 2-D Problem No.

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Preparation

Rev. 11/17/05

Make a sketch of the structure 2 1 Choose your global reference frame Calculate the coordinates of keypoints Look up material properties, thickness. 6 Create a directory for your ANSYS files ANSYS Setup Login and execute ANSYS from the START Menu / CAD Programs/ Ansys 9.0/ Ansys Change your jobname, title, default directory Switch Output to jobname.out [] Append box. Set Preferences - Structural, h-code Select Units BIN
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Create Model
Define Model Elements >Preprocessor >Element Type >Add/Edit/Delete [Add] [Options]

(Solid, Quad 8 node 82) (Plane stress w/ thickness)

>Real Constants [Add] <OK> THK (0.5) >Material Properties (enter or select from library) >Material Library >Select Units> BIN <OK> >Material Model >Structural >Linear >Elastic >Isotropic EX (3e7) PRXY (0.28) <Exit> [Save_db] Create Rectangle (5x2 = quarter section of a flat tension member)

>Modeling >Create >Areas >Rectangle >By Dimensions X1, X2 ( 0, 6 ) (horiz range) Y1, Y2 ( 0, 2 ) <OK> (vert range) [PlotCtrls] >Numbering >Area numbers (On) <OK> [PlotCtrls] >Pan, Zoom, Rotate > [ ] (Zoom Out) Create Circle (2 Diam at the origin)

>Modeling >Create >Areas >Circle >Solid Circle Pick circle center point: (Click inside window. Hold button down) Move arrow until: WPX = 0, WPY = 0 Click at center, drag until: Radius = 1.0 <OK>

Subtract Holes Boolean Operation >Modeling > Operate >Boolean >Subtract > Areas Pick: base area : (rectangle ) [Apply] Pick: hole: <OK> (remaining area is drawn automatically) [File] > Save as: hole1.db

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Mesh Model
Automatic Mesh Generation >Preprocessor >Meshing >Size Controls > Manual Size >Global >Size SIZE (0.5) <OK> >Meshing >Mesh > Areas >Free Pick rectangle area: <OK> Re-do Mesh >Meshing > Clear Pick area (rectangle) <OK> [Plot] > Areas ( Try different mesh size, etc) _________________________________________________________________________

Solution
Apply Boundary Constraints >Solution [Plot] > Lines >Define Loads > Apply >Structural >Displacement >On Lines Pick left side of rectangle <OK> DOFs constrained: UX Displacement Value: 0 >Define Loads > Apply >Structural >Displacement >On Lines Pick bottom side of rectangle <OK> DOFs constrained: UY Displacement Value: 0 Apply Loads >Solution >Define Loads > Apply > Structural > Pressure > On Lines Right side of rectangle: Pick line on right side [Apply] (Uniform pressure distribution) ValueI: (-100) [Apply] (Neg pressure acts away from the surface) [Save_db] Solve Current Load Set >Solution >Solve >Current LS <OK> (Note: Complete results are stored in results file: jobname.rst )

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View Results
Deformed Shape >General Postprocessor >Plot Results >Deformed Shape (Select Deformed and Undeformed Shape) [PlotCtrls] > Style > Displacement Scaling > User Specified (400) Replot <OK> Stress Contours >Plot Results >Contour Plot >Nodal Solution Select: (Stress) Scroll to: ( von Mises) Scale Factor: (blank) (Def shape only) Interpolation Nodes: (Corners only) Eff Nu (0) <OK> Element Plot [PlotCtrls] > Numbering > Elem / Attrib (Element Numbers) Numbers shown with (Colors only) Replot <OK> Plot Input Data Meshed model with node numbers Line model with loads and constraints List Results Tables >General Postprocessor >List Results > Nodal Solution, Element Solution, and Reaction Solution (All items ) <OK> List input data [List] Nodal coordinates, elements, properties, real constants, loads, constraints [File] >Print or...[File] >Save as: (Rescale plot)

(send to file: jobname.out)

Select "All DOF" <Apply> [File] >Print lp -d CB230ps or...[File] >Copy to Output File >Plot Element Solution

(display table of results) (send to file: jobname.out)

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Other ANSYS Features

Dependent Constraints >Preprocessor >Couple / ceqn>Constraint Eqn 0 = -1*4Y + 0.2*4X Angled constraint: at node 4, displ in Y dir. equals 0.2* displ in X dir. (i.e. positive slope) 0 = -1*4X + 1*3X Pin joint: coincident nodes 3 and 4 move together in the 0 = -1*4Y + 1*3Y X and Y dir, but rotate independently Screen Capture [PlotCtrls] >Hard Copy Send to default printer: lp -d CB230ps Print a Table or a Help File [File] >Print

(Use File option in the table window)

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ANSYS Help and File Management

Help Help - Table of Contents - Workbook Sample Problems Help - Table of Contents - Procedures Manual Sec. 2.4 Typical ANSYS Analysis Sec. 11.2 General Postprocessor Sec. 12.5 Creating Graphs App. A File Management Help plane82 (description of 8 node quad elements) Files Look in your ANSYS directory. jobname.db Database file - your ANSYS input data jobname.dbb Backup of database file - created when you do a Save-db jobname.emat Element matrices jobname.err Error/warning log jobname.esav Saved element data jobname.log Command history - complete record of commands used in a session jobname.out ANSYS Output file jobname.rst ANSYS Results file