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ANSYS: Bending originated by Pipe Internal Pressure
Thank you very much for all your answers. Our conclusion is: ANSYS Elastic Curved Pipe elements (Pipe18) cannot capture bending originated by the pipe internal pressure. Best regards.- Enr1que
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ANSYS: Bending originated by Pipe Internal Pressure
Dear Drej, Thank you very much for your answer. I am pretty sure this effect occurs (simple party blowers work on this principle) Find attached two small "test bench" models: one with shell elements, the other one with pipe elements: *****************************************************...- Enr1que
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ANSYS: Bending originated by Pipe Internal Pressure
Dear all, I am trying to model the bending due to the internal pressure on a curved pipe. When using Elastic Curved Pipe elements (Pipe18) with Elastic Straight Pipe (Pipe16) this effect does not appear... Is there any Real Constant or Keyoption which I should be using? My model is quite...- Enr1que
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