How to include wall thickness and mass per unit length for Plane Strain elements

[Bruce321]

Hi,

I am working on Ansys 14.5 and I have to include wall thickness and Mass/Length of a D fender but only Plain Strain elements have to be used. I dont know which element type has to be used to include both of these. I cannot use Beam Elements as Real constants are not required in Beam elements. Can you guys please suggest me what needs to be done as I am new to Ansys.

 

[IDS]

I don't know what a D fender is, or what you mean by Real constants, but beam elements with section properties based on unit width can be used in a plane strain analysis.

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[Bruce321]

Its a term in Ship building. Anyway that not important. Real constants is an option wherein Thickness, Cross section area etc etc can be defined. What I meant is how can I add wall thickness and mass/length in Ansys where in I have to use just Plane Strain elements.

 

[jhardy1]

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Plane Strain means there is no no strain in the third direction, so the concept of "thickness" is meaningless. A typical Plane Strain model represents an infinitesimal slice through an infinitely long "extrusion", with uniform loading and constraint along the length of the object which is being modelled.

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