I used the information here (link) to create a named selection using the ACTConsole. However, I need the named selection I'm creating to reference another named selection. Therefore, I have tried to use the code below:
worksheet.AddRow()...
I normally group all the solid bodies representing bolts in a model together into a single geometry group. I would like to use a ACTConsole Snippet to get a list of all the bolts in that group. Is that possible? I am currently using this to get the groups in the model...
I am modeling bolts with pretension loads, and I want to make sure that loads from other sources don't cause the total load isn't going to cause failure. My initial attempts were to just see if the peak stress in the bolt was higher the the failure criteria for the material. However, I quickly...
I'm trying to find the formula for calculating the tensile stress area of a bolt. According to page 1528 of The Machinery's Handbook (29th Ed.), that formula is given as A_S=(π/4)*((d_m+d_p)/2)^2 where the pitch diameter is d_p=d−0.649519×P, and the minor diameter is d_m=d−1.299038×P.
I was...
I'm attempting to account for flow through the AC coil for a commercial chiller in a simulation where the unit is sitting in a wind tunnel (the goal being to make sure the system survives a hurricane). I want to accomplish this by approximating the coils as porous volumes. Assuming that I know...
I'm trying to set up a fairly simple coupled fluid-structural system to learn how it works. My system simply has a flat plate with wind blowing on its face. The plate has a fixed displacement constraint on a small area in its center. Currently, as far as I can tell, everything is set up properly...
I'm trying to set up a fairly simple coupled fluid-structural system to learn how it works. My system simply has a flat plate with wind blowing on its face. The plate has a fixed displacement constraint on a small area in its center. Currently, as far as I can tell, everything is set up properly...
So most of what I've done in the past is analysis on static systems. However, there is currently an urgent need for some non-static analysis to be done where I work, and I'm the only one available right now that knows how to use ANSYS. What happened was that we had one of our systems that was...
The attached file contains a project with two simulations. The first models a bolt uses frictional contact exclusively to restrain its motion. The second uses the same geometry and replaces the contact that would be between the shaft of the bolt and the clearance hole with a revolute joint. The...
I am modeling a hinge in ANSYS and have not been able to get it to run without crashing. So far, I've been modeling the relationship between the two sides of the hinge and the hinge pin using just contact connections, but when I did a modal analysis, I found that the contact connections were not...
I previously worked for a government contractor that had its own proprietary FEA code, and we generated the mesh for these models in Cubit (on which Trelis is based) and visualized the simulation results in VisIt. I remember complaining about Cubit and other pieces of software not working the...
I have a model of a door that has been meshed and the simulation is ready to run. After that simulation is run, I would like to rerun the simulation a few more times with the only difference being that the door would be open at a few select angles. My preference would be to not have to remesh...
