How to analyze welded joints in Ansys ?

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How to overcome the error in Ansys "Deformation is too large compared to bounding box dimensions" ?

When I am in need to define displacement for the object the bounding box being constraint for me ? So What shall I do ?

01 February 2017 5,115 0 View

What kind of colloidal solutions can be used in heat storage applcation ?

In colloidal solutions, liquid/solid particles are dispersed in other solid/liquid . Among that what kind of colloidal solution can be used in heat transfer application

31 December 2016 3,478 2 View

How to use imprint faces option in design modeller (Ansys-Workbench) to model a moving heat source ?

I need to model a Gaussian Heat Source that moves over a plate with a constant velocity/ constant heat flux using Workbench

31 December 2016 8,934 3 View

I need to define velocity of an object in Ansys, but bounding box dimensions become limitatation, what to do ?

I need to move object by displacement option in Ansys solver but the dimension of bounding box of the object remains constraint for the process, is there any other method to do it ?

31 December 2016 8,199 1 View

What tool should be used to model a moving heat source in Ansys ?

In Ansys Workbench , Fluent, CFX, Static-structural & thermal, Transient -structural & thermal, etc are available. Which is better to use and how ?

31 December 2016 2,782 4 View

In Ansys Fluent , how to analyze the quantity of distilled water produced in the solar still ?

I have done analysis in Ansys Fluent for the temperature distribution only, but not for the yield of the still. Any of you please give me some useful suggestions

10 November 2016 610 3 View

How to set boundary conditions for solar stills in Fluent ?

Solar still absorbs radiation to evaporate water, so it involves muti-phase. What are the boundary condition when solar still basin (metal) insulated(wood) and top surface is closed with glazing...

10 November 2016 4,823 5 View

How to perform TIG welding , with a moving heat source Analysis in Ansys Workbench ?

I know to use Ansys Fluent only. Is that possible to perform the above analysis in Fluent or should I go for CFX/Multi-physics/Transient-thermal

10 November 2016 1,804 1 View

How to calculate the cost of distilled water produced per litre and payback period of solar still ?

Type of solar still Cost of solarstill ($)Average yield(kg/m2)Cost of freshwater/litreCost of waterproduced/day ($/day)Payback period = (Investment/costof fresh water /day) in daysConventional...

07 August 2016 4,850 2 View

Is there any alternate Phase Change Material for Paraffin ?

Paraffin has good thermal stability , heat storage capacity, also does not react with metals by means of chemical reaction and cost effective. Is there any alternate for this material ?

01 January 1970 3,421 9 View

How to define an anisotropic material with asymmetric elastic compliance/stiffness matrix in ANSYS APDL?

I need to model an anisotropic material in which the Poisson's ratio ν_12 ≠ ν_21 and so on. Therefore, the elastic compliance matrix wouldn't be a symmetric one. In ANSYS APDL, for TB,ANEL...

09 August 2024 5,048 2 View

What may be the reasons for failures of Tube toi Tube Sheet Joints in Boiler Drum ?

We have observed that tube to tube sheet joint leaked in our boiler and needs to overcome same by knowing the root cause.

08 August 2024 3,161 0 View

Is changing the medium during the experiment overestimate the results?

I am experimenting with cancer and non-cancer cells in a 12-well plate for 4 days with a seeding density 1*10^4/well, however, I noticed that the control group growth rate slows down on D3. Should...

07 August 2024 2,283 2 View

How to normalize and take the significance of the MTT OD values with 3 replicates for the same cell-line?

Hi, I have a question about normalizing the MTT OD values for doing the statistical analysis. So, if we have 3 different plates and we call them 3 different replicates, so, first we would...

07 August 2024 8,106 4 View

Can you recommend a 96-well plate for minimal cell adherence to the wells during phagocytosis experiments?

I have been performing short phagocytosis experiments using 96-round bottom, tissue culture treated, well plates (Falcon, 353077). I culture the cells with the phagocytic cargo for 2-4hrs, wash...

04 August 2024 5,228 4 View

PBMC infection with virus?

In my study, I intend to infect PBMCs with SARS-CoV-2. After that, I will analyze NK cells by flow cytometry to see if their phenotype changes or if they show degranulation. After the infection, I...

01 August 2024 4,403 4 View

Found this object in the cell culture - do you have any suggestions what it might be?

Dear researchers, Today, we found this object in one of the wells of a 96wp culture plate. The plate contained MEC-1 cells and GelTrex. I am quite curious what this is (because it's not cells). Do...

01 August 2024 2,250 2 View

Publishing a checklist?

Does anybody know of entomological Journals without page charges that would publish an extensive checklist (Hong Kong Aculeates wasps) covering 350 species (of which more than half are new to Hong...

01 August 2024 6,134 2 View

My frequency output shows no errors, however, there's no frequency as a result on gausview. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

I'm trying to perform a frequency calculation using Gaussian via MOBAXterm. The output shows no errors, however, there's no frequency as a result on gausview. The option "vibrations" is not...

31 July 2024 631 4 View

Tangential stiffness option in ansys workbench?

I am not able to find how I can provide tangential stiffness in ansys workbench The normal stiffness option is there. But how I can enter tangential stiffness I have read somewhere tangential...

29 July 2024 2,032 2 View

Pankaj Biswas

You have to do the transient thermal and elasto-plastic thermo-mechanical analysis. For thermal analysis you have to use SOLID 70 thermal element and for structural analysis you have to use SOLID 45.

Veeramanikandan M

Dear karthickmunisamy,

It is the easiest one, please follow the below attached link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns2-kf_3UN8

Nader Batehi

Hey ,do you have any idea were i could find an APDL code example for thermar and structural welding simulation?