Simple Beam Support

[rjsfocus]

I have created a beam using Pro Engineer. My question is probably simple and basic, but I am just starting on the software and haven't figured it out. I imported the beam into ANSYS as a step file. I applied the load correctly, however I am not sure how to apply a fixed support. The support is only supposed to extend about a third of the way across the beam. How do I support a small area of the beam without selecting the entire surface?

Thanks
Rich

 

[lopessilva]

Hello Rich,

The way I would do it is to delete the area, then create keypoint and then several areas by keypoints, in a manner that the areas are created as you want the supports to be on. Let´s say you now have a rectangular area, which is the beam bottom area. You delete the area, create new keypoints well located in order to be able to create areas and apply area constrains as you want to. To apply constaints, go to solution->displacement> apply displacement on areas. You should now have a group of areas joined toghether which have the same dimensions as the old one. You should apply a area glue in order to ensure that ANSYS threats the group of areas as one. To do this go to preprocessing and search for boolean operations->glue

Please let me know if this solution was helpful,


Regards,
Hugo Silva
Mechanical Eng. PhD student
Materials Eng. MSc.

 

[CornishPasty]

Slice the geometry before you import it, or nsel in a range, then issue d command