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I need to define a simple equation in APDL with multiplication in it. The function goes as, w = REV * 2* PI/60 I simply want to convert the input RPM value to rads-1. But when I enter the equation...
11 November 2019 4,523 3 View
Hi all, I want to know how to add DOF for a set of nodes relative to a remote location in APDL? A similar function is available in Ansys mechanical workbench called 'remote displacement" or...
09 September 2019 10,163 2 View
Hi, How to convert bolt pretension force in to "pretension adjustment length"? Is there any equation for the conversion? Or do I have to conduct a separate simulation to find the bolt length...
07 July 2019 9,913 7 View
HI, I need to select a single surrogate model to model the response of four different objective functions. To do that I have errors of each surrogate model from three different error metrics. My...
05 May 2019 9,205 5 View
Hi, I'm doing a stress analysis of an assembly. I need to obtain the volume of an object as an output parameter for a parametric study. How can I do that? I think I can use a apdl command to...
03 March 2019 1,417 1 View
Hi, I need to calculate factor of safety for a brittle material using "elemental" max. principal stress. Since the default factor of safety is based on "nodal" stress. I'm planning to use "user...
02 February 2019 6,561 1 View
Hi all, In FEA when dealing with stress singularities, most of the time people say to avoid the stress singularities using the St. Venant's Principle. But to back it up this method I could not...
11 November 2018 4,199 8 View
I need to use computing power of two computers for simulation. How do I setup this for ansys workbench mechanical? Thanks.
10 October 2018 4,941 0 View
There are several types of mean stress correction methods in fatigue analysis such as Goodman, Gerber, etc, So for a fatigue analysis what is the basis of selecting a mean stress correction...
08 August 2018 9,699 12 View
HI all, I'm trying to simulate the effect of rotational inertia for a shaft which is rotating 100 krpm along its axis. The shaft consists of three components (please see the below attachment...
07 July 2018 7,972 9 View
Hi all, I've being trying to simulate effect of bolt pretension using ANSYS mechanical. The bolt load is 12000 N. I'm using axi-symmetric simulation. The issue is stress concentration is high on...
05 May 2018 8,667 1 View
Hi, Can any one please let me know how to configure ABAQUS solver for ANSYS workbench? So I can run simulations using ABAQUS solver which are pre-processed in ANSYS. I read the help file, but...
01 January 2018 4,264 3 View
I'm trying to do fatigue life simulation using ncode. Stress simulation was done in Ansys mechanical. When I import the results file inside ncode the stress results(in ncode) are shown similar...
11 November 2017 3,046 1 View
Hi all, I'm running a simple simulation on a rotating shaft with similar boundary conditions in ANSYS and ABAQUS. (same speed, material, and support) Image of the rotating shaft is attached...
10 October 2017 2,690 16 View
I have a single cylindrical body with two threaded ends in either side. There's two nuts with pretension at both ends. In Ansys mechanical simulation fails when I apply two pretension forces for...
10 October 2017 4,303 3 View
When using Fatigue calculation using existing FEA data, What type of results are typically used and why? Example : Signed Von Mises stress, Maximum Principal stress etc.
01 January 1970 3,138 6 View
Hi all when post processing results what type of result location do you use? In some applications default results viewing options are different for example in ANSYS its nodal stress and in...
01 January 1970 6,532 6 View
Hi, I've being using ANSYS mechanical 18.2(direct and iterative solver) in windows 7 without any issue. Recently I upgraded to a better performing(more cores and with more RAM) workstation which...
01 January 1970 7,170 4 View
