I had couple of questions on modeling crack in ansys...
1. When i have to put a very thin crack, can i just keep the two areas that form the upper and lower surface of the crack unmerged which means when i load up the model, i will have the two surfaces separate like a crack surface....i have...
I have a long column like 2D model with contact element at the bottom and force loading at the top surface....now i am observing a confusing result.......when i apply a point load at the middle of the top surface with constrained nodal displacement for all nodes on that surface, i get a...
I was running a model in Ansys to get some stress plots. The contour plots are working fine. Then i wanted to know the load direction at certain points. So, i got a vector plot for principal stress. But, then i wanted to get a vector plot of maximum shear stress as well which i am not getting...
