Hi,
I am new to Ansys and I am trying to simulate pulling two curved beam, joined at one end point, straight and during the process, the beams will touch one another. I am having trouble trying to assign some kind of contact or interaction (hard contact, rough surface) so that the beams don't go...
Hi,
I am new to Ansys with some experience with ABAQUS. I am trying to simulate pulling a curved beam straight and during the process, the beam will touch itself. I was able to do this in ABAQUS but in Ansys, I am having trouble trying to assign some kind of contact or interaction (hard...
Hi Barten,
Thanks a lot for your help. I was able to play around with the simulation during the weekend. As you suggested, after I added inertia to the nodes, I can run it in Dynamic, Explicit mode. However, I find that the mass introduces oscillation to the node movement. I guess I...
Hi,
Thanks for the script. Now I can start the actual simulation process. I did some copy and paste of your code to make another .py file for the case where I do everything in CAE up to the point where assembly-level wire needs to be formed, then run the script to:
1) Partition edge in...
Hi,
yeah, a lot of questions and thanks for your patience. I originally made the hexagonal layout in AutoCAD and export it to .sat to be imported into ABAQUS/CAE's sketch. If it's too much trouble to change to code, I am thinking your two-part script will work fine, as I will make minor...
Barten,
One follow-up question please:
I can create a sketch of the structure I want easily; so, is it possible to skip the "sketch" part of the "hexagon" definition code and replace the following line
myPart.BaseWire(sketch=mySketch)
in "part" with
myPart.BaseWire(sketch="?? reading...
Barten,
Could you verify something for me? I was able to create the hexagonal wires with your script. But it seems that I cannot edit the part without creating errors. That is, if I go to the sketch to delete a line, the wire feature will fail to regenerate and as a result, all of the...
Hi Barten,
Thanks a lot; this is a very helpful starting point for me. A few questions:
1) it seems that the variable user_length is only used to form connectivity between nodes that are close enough together, correct? I am asking because I might have 6 segments that are a little bit...
Hi Barten,
I've attached an input file I created using CAE. The coordinates of a smallest hexagon is in the beginning of the file.
I'd like to use axial connector with elastic behavior with a tabulated list of force vs. displacement. This is also included in the .inp file. And...
Hi,
I am planning to simulate a hexagonal network of 1500 nodes with a connector element connecting between each adjacent node pairs. The connectors are used to simulate a variable-stiffness spring as it's being stretched. I am currently using ABAQUS/CAE as the preprocessor and the only...
Thanks Martin,
The error message is "10 elements have missing property definitions. The elements have been identified in element set ErrElemMissingSection." I am attaching the .inp for parts and assembly portion below. So, can I simply delete the part's instance in the assembly portion? can I...
Martin,
Your suggestion works! Thanks. Two more follow up questions please:
1) I could only proceed with running job files if I have an actual material element between the connector element (i.e. create a line and mesh it, assign section to it as usual and then create another wire on top...
Hi,
Could someone please offer some suggestions to what I thought was a simple
modeling problem that turned out otherwise? I am trying to model, using
ABAQUS/CAE, a spring element with variable spring constant depending on its
displacement according to a list of tabulated values. The spring...
