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Material property limits

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UMMET

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Aug 15, 2005
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Hello,

I'm looking to define a sort of "miracle material" for aiding in the frequency analysis of assemblies im developing. The idea is that one could apply a thin film, say .5 mil, over a selected area of a part within the assembly. The film would be as close to infinetely strong and rigid as it could within the bounds of ANSYS computational limits. By being bonded to a part, the film would keep the area its bonded to rigid relative to other portions of the part. I hope to use this as a quick and dirty tool to find the areas that would affect the assemblies the most. The problem is that i have had little success in converging on the limits that ANSYS will accept. Does anyone have any knowledge of these limits, or could someone point me to a source that does?

I'm using ANSYS workbench 8.1
Thanks for your consideration.
 
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Hi,

making a material too stiff, could lead to wrong results. You should avoid these.

See the command "cerig", it could be helpful to you.

regards
Alex
 
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