Qiqin Yu

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How would you select elements that best represent the lane area and orientation?

Hi everyone, I am developing a shell element model for a concrete bridge. I am currently at a stage of assigning the traffic lane UDL. As you can see in Figure 1, the traffic lanes are...

09 September 2017 1,913 2 View

How to obtain the element strain knowing the exact sensor locations? Using ANSYS apdl

I have developed a bridge model, form which I need to extract the strain value at certain locations. The model was created using shell elements (shown in the figure), I need to compare the strain...

08 August 2017 2,723 1 View

Create a loop command to assign boundary conditions to many nodes

Hi everyone, I have a number of nodes to be assigned with boundary conditions. Line boundary and Area boundary both can not be used in my case. I will need to write many lines of command to...

08 August 2017 9,271 1 View

How to set up the Gravitational Acceleration in Ansys?

I understand that ANSYS doesn't have a dimension system and it's dependent on the users to keep the units consistent. my model's global dimension is in "mm", Does that mean the Global...

08 August 2017 5,182 1 View

The adpl coding for displaying four modes in four separate window

Hi, I want to show the 1st to 4th modal modes in four windows. The attached picture shows what I want. It also can be found in the following...

07 July 2017 3,395 1 View

How would you model the boundary conditions for this two-span concrete bridge?

Hey everyone, I am now creating a 2D bridge model for the following concrete bridge. It has two spans. The bridge superstructure is basically a concrete slab, with the middle fixed by a shear...

07 July 2017 5,167 13 View

The modal analysis difference between beam elements and shell elements

I have been trying to developed a modal analysis for the bridge attached as follows. I used both beam elements and shell elements, the boundary conditions applied to the modal are shown in images...

07 July 2017 704 8 View