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You mean you want the gap to be closed even though the parts still don´t touch each other? Then use the "Adjust to touch" option in Interface treatment. If you want them always to stay in touch, use the type Bonded. (Both of them for Ansys WB) Regards Fernando

Hello if I have correctly understand, you want to kill nodes DURING THE SOLUTION - that means, during the solve command. If that is the case, that´s not possible. You have to decide which ELEMENTS (not nodes) you want to kill before you solve. Regards Fernando

Hello again, you have to create 2 coincident meshes, with coincident nodes and i.e. have mesh 2 with an initial state of EKILL, something like cmsel,s,mesh2 ekill,all already in the solution processor. Then you would have to transfer the temperature distribution TO BOTH MESHES, that is...

Hello have you thought about using EKILL/EALIVE? You could define 2 meshes with coincident nodes, one with mat1 and another with mat2 properties, and decide which element is alive through your temperature conditions. From the pair of coincident elements, one should always be alive and the other...

Hello, if I remember it right, the representation of the loads applied are a little bit tricky: the vector (for a force) will be plot on the point you clicked in order to select the surface, line...Unfortunately I can not check it right now. Hope it helps

Hello I have not worked with Inventor, but if it generates a .dsdb file you should be able to open it directly with Ansys Workbench, but not Classic. In order to see which one you have installed, you can check it for instance from Programs in the Start button: if Ansys Workbench is there, then...

Hello you could get the node number closest to the position you want with *get, then read the temperature at that node and apply it at the surface.

Hello all, I have conducted an structural axial symmetric analysis and have a doubt while reviewing the results: For this type of analysis, the tangential strain should be proportional to u/r, being u the radial displacement and r the radial distance to the point, right? Then, how is it...

Thanks all for your answers! Regards, Fernando

Hello I am a mechanical engineer and would like to learn some more about the materials I work with, high-temperature steels and some aluminium and titan alloys with different heat treatments. Everything from phase diagrams to the modification of properties through the heat treat. would be...

Hello Ed.R. comparison of the von Mises stress with the UTS as rupture criterion should be a good approximation for steels. It is something I learnt from my old boss but can not confirm nor demonstrate it. Maybe someone with more experience than I could bring some light here. Regards Fernando

Hello You could do it using the "Solutions combination" option, check the WB help. I think both solutions have to be inside the same simulation, though.

Hello again crisb, what do you mean with true stresses/engineering stresses and not mixing them up? If I can correctly remember, engineering stresses are determined over the undeformed cross-section and true stresses over the deformed one. I suppose that when I plot the stresses, they are...

Thanks for the fast answers! However, I have figured out that the convergence problem was not in the plastic material but on the contact area between the spring retainer and the tool used to apply the press-through force. Sorry about that [blush] Another question: what do you think of the...

Hello I am simulating the push-through test on a spring retainer and I would like to determine the maximal load that I can apply. The idea is, basically, to simulate the rupture of the part under an increasing load. I have defined the spring retainer material to be bilinear isotropic...

Hello optimization within Workbench can be done with the DesignXplorer and DesignXplorerVT modules, but I don´t know if you can implement rules other than "minimize the maximum stress for this weight" or similar. Hope it helps Cheers

Hello, I am trying to analyse a part which, ideally, we could consider made of 4 concentrical cylinders (actually, a central cylinder and 3 concentrical rings). On the 3 external rings there is a constant level of initial stresses on each one, differing from that on the other rings. Do you know...

Hi Juliet27, I hope you have already solved your problem. As Drej said, it has probably to do with the elements at the boundary not sharing the nodes. You can visually check that by using the command: /pnum,node,1 which plots the node numbers, followed by eplot. If the elements on the boundary...