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What could be the reason for the following warning in Workbench which occurs in the structural simulation ? Warning: The nodal connectivity of the contact element ***** has changed during...
26 November 2020 9,650 0 View
For the bridge shown below, the web is connected to both flanges, and the slab is connected to the parapet by meshing and merging the nodes, but what is the name of this connection? is it...
23 November 2020 2,445 5 View
I am doing frequency analysis of an orthotropic bridge. To connect the girder with girder, floor beams and edge beams, I assigned MPC constraints to the respective nodes. But after running the...
23 November 2020 861 2 View
Dear researchers Maximum-direction ground motions are used to prepare seismic hazard maps provided in United State Geologic Survey (USGS) instead of geomean ground motions (the product of hazard...
23 November 2020 1,353 0 View
is there sensor history output for energy ALLKE and ALLPD in abaqus 2020? is there any one help me
20 November 2020 6,800 2 View
we also want this composite material to be able to be modeled for mechanical testing.
20 November 2020 2,255 4 View
I do not understand how to provide pinned support to the rigid bodies. ABAQUS suggests that either rotary inertia must be defined at the reference nodes or all of the rotational degrees of freedom...
20 November 2020 1,510 3 View
I am performing finite element modelling using Python. The output of such analysis is often deformed shapes or stress contours. How can I export this output in such a format so that I can load it...
17 November 2020 923 3 View
Hello, I have a technical question about the selection of steel frame sections in the designing of steel frame structure i.e W16x48 etc. The common practice I have seen is the trial and error...
12 November 2020 5,937 4 View
How can I re-mesh lines in ANSYS APDL without having to click all the mesh in my model (attached below)? Is there an option where I could clear only the lines meshing without clearing the mesh of...
10 November 2020 7,318 4 View
Hello, Currently I am working on a problem that considers both NLADAPTIVE and element deletion command snippets in Mechanical. Unfortunately NLADAPTIVE does not support EKILL commands for element...
06 November 2020 8,023 2 View
I understand that S8R is for thick shells, and S8R5 is for thin as well as their inherent plate theories. However, in the case of an in-plane loading such as a bias-extension of a thin composite...
03 November 2020 5,341 1 View
I am modeling a finite element bridge on ANSYS APDL (attached below), and after meshing I am getting these different colors (purple and blue) for my FEM bridge model. I do not know what they...
02 November 2020 9,200 3 View
Dear all, I developed a hybrid Phase Field-Finite Element Model (PF-FEM) for fracture of electrode particles of Li-ion batteries. [Isotropic & Hybrid] Phase Field-Finite Element Model (PF-FE......
01 November 2020 8,953 1 View
In a 3D solid Abaqus model, I have defined an element set named "Set-9" in Assembly module which has been highlighted in red color in Fig. 1. But, contrary to all the other sets, "Set-9" is not...
24 October 2020 2,901 4 View
I tried to surface bond piezoelectric actuator patch with CFRP laminated composite specimen using standard aredlite (two part epoxy adhesive). But i am experiencing a short circuit problem at a...
22 October 2020 3,805 4 View
I am interested in performing FEA on solidworks, however I am no proper knowledge of this subject. So how am I suppose to learn FEA so that I can perform it on a software
20 October 2020 6,305 8 View
Is there a Python project where a commercial FEA (finite element analysis) package is used to generate input data for a freely available optimizer, such as scipy.optimize, pymoo, pyopt, pyoptsparse?
19 October 2020 3,427 3 View
I am meshing a small area (shell element) attached below and I keep getting errors (attached below). I have tried smartsize meshing on ANSYS APDL and manual meshing. Yet it is not working out....
18 October 2020 4,346 4 View
Hello! I have recently been trying to model friction between two blocks of different materials in Abaqus FEA. I have started with a very simple model with two cubes of different materials next to...
18 October 2020 1,439 18 View
Hi, I have imported model from solidworks and glued all the volumes. while meshing i got warning that i have attached. I am trying to move the circular heat source along z-axis from one end to...
13 October 2020 2,327 4 View
Hello every one, I am doing finite element analysis of a notched steel component with nonlinear material properties. I have tried different element types for meshing and the analysis results are...
12 October 2020 5,556 3 View
When inspecting the stiffness matrix of a simple cantilever beam, modelled in ABAQUS, it becomes apparent that the fixed-end boundary conditions are applied by assigning very large (O(1036))...
09 October 2020 2,004 9 View
(i) I have modeled a simple 2D frame structure (2 columns and 1 beam). I would like to see the variation in the result by varying the different parameters such as, sizes of confinement bars,...
07 October 2020 9,620 5 View