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...
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...
I've looked through the sections in the User Manual and Example Problems Guide on piezoelectric analysis but there isn't a walkthrough for either of the example problems. Only an input file is provided. I haven't learnt the keyboard commands for Abaqus so unfortunately it doesn't make any sense.
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...