Thanks Drej for getting back to me so quick!
The shear walls are concrete panels about 5.4m wide and 4m high but I'm not too interested in cracking/ crushing(just yet). Its a modal analysis that will be carried out.
The plane 42 element only allows me to model the walls in the x y plane only...
Hi all,
I need some advise on modelling shear walls in Ansys. What element types are best to use and what are the advantages/ disadvantages of plane and shell elements? I am currently using shell type 63.The actual building will have 400mm thick walls.Any comments would be greatly appreciated...
Hi all,
I need some advise on modelling shear walls in Ansys. What element types are best to use and what are the advantages/ disadvantages of plane and shell elements? I am currently using shell type 63.The actual building will have 400mm thick walls.Any comments would be greatly appreciated...
Drej,
Thanks very much for your help, it was greatly appreciated.I managed to get both my Combin14 and Combin40 models to work. With my Combin40 model, I had entered the wrong keyopt settings as you said, which solved my coincident nodes problem, but had also fully fixed the end node on each...
Hi guys, hoping I could get a bit of advise on something I'm stuck on at work.I've recently started using Ansys and have been thrown in the deep end!
The structure I’m modelling in Ansys is on a piled foundation, with each pile descending about 20m into the ground. I want to model these piles...
