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    Connecting a resistor to piezoelectric elements (ANSYS Mechanical APDL)

    Hi, I'm modelling a vibrating piezoelectric energy harvester in ANSYS, consisting of an upper face (with coupled voltage degrees of freedom) and a lower grounded face (with an assigned voltage boundary condition of 0 volts). I need to connect a resistor across the upper and lower faces but...
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    Disappearing menu items / degree of freedom coupling issues - ANSYS Mechanical APDL 18.2

    Hi, I'm using ANSYS Mechanical APDL (either 18.1 or 18.2) to model a piezoelectric energy harvester. For some reason, under the preprocessor menu the 'Coupling/Ceqn' tab has disappeared and I have no idea how to get it back. When I was previously able to access the 'Coupling/Ceqn' tab to...
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    How to couple piezoelectric elements in ABAQUS?

    Hi, I'm using ABAQUS to model some vibrating piezoelectric energy harvesters. I'm aware that I need to couple the voltage degree of freedom of each piezoelectric element and assign them all the same value but I have no idea how to do this. I also need to connect a simple resistive load to the...

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