New To Ansys 11.0

[eroe]

Hello, This may seem like a simple question, but i am new to using ansys workbench. I am trying to perform modal analysis on a simply supported beam, but i have no idea where to define the element type (as in beam3 etc...). I know how to perform the modal analysis, but i just cannot for the life of me find out how to select which element type ansys uses to solve the problem... Any advice would help a lot

Thanks

 

[eroe]

does anyone know how workbench decides which element type to use? or how to manually tell it the type of element? anything at all would be extremely helpful....

 

[Baldy217]

ANSYS decides which element to use by which type of analysis you choose.

I don't know how to manually specify the element in Workbench, but if you can it will be described in the help files.

 

[elogesh]

Hi,

Using command snippets, you can assign the element types as well as identify the element type used for the analysis.

It may be like,

/prep7
*get,parameter,etype,,num,max...
finish
/solu

Also check it in the ansys help

Regards,
Logesh.E