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Level of Difficulty:
moderate
60 to 90 minutes
Discipline:
structural
Analysis Type:
SHELL163
7.1.2.1. Given
The dimensions of the container and table top are shown above. The container is made of aluminum alloy with Young's
modulus of 10.3E6 psi, density of 2.5E-4 lbf-sec2/in4, Poisson's ratio of 0.334, Yield Stress of 5,000 psi, and a tangent
modulus of 20,000 psi. The table top is made of carbon steel with Young's modulus of 30.0E6 psi, density of 7.3E-4 lbfsec2/in4, and Poisson's ratio of 0.292.
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Assume a rigid behavior for the table top and bilinear kinematic hardening von Mises plasticity for the container.
Solid modeling is used to generate the 3-D model of the container, which then will be meshed. Direct generation of nodes
and elements will be used to model the table top. The table top will be modeled as a rigid element and only one element will
be used to represent it.
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Input Geometry
2. Read in geometry of the container.
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Generate Mesh
6. Mesh the container.
7. Generate table top elements.
8. Create container component.
9. Create table top component.
10. Specify contact parameters.
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Apply Loads
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Obtain Solution
13. Specify Output Controls.
14. Solve.
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Review Results
15. Animate stress contours.
16. Animate deformed shape.
17. Exit the ANSYS program.
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In an explicit solver, such as ANSYS LS-DYNA, the analysis time is highly dependent on the smallest element in the model.
Therefore, for efficient results, a uniform element size should be used.
For this example, use the default element size. This should give a 3x3 mesh on each face of the container.
1. Main Menu> Preprocessor> Meshing> MeshTool
2. (drop down) Element Attributes = Global; then [Set]
3. (drop down) Material number = 2
4. [OK]
5. (drop down) Mesh = Areas
6. (check) Mapped
7. [Mesh]
8. [Pick All]
9. Toolbar: SAVE_DB
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23. [OK]
24. Utility Menu> Plot> Elements
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3. [OK]
4. (drop down) Contact Component or Part no. = BOX
5. (drop down) Target Component or Part no. = TABLE
6. [OK]
7. Toolbar: SAVE_DB
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19. 2 = 386.4
20. File> Apply/Quit
21. [Close]
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13. Make choices in the Animation Controller (not shown), if necessary, then [Close].
5. Make choices in the Animation Controller (not shown), if necessary, then [Close].
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Even though you have exited the ANSYS program, you can still view animations using the ANSYS ANIMATE program.
The ANIMATE program runs only on the PC and is extremely useful for:
Viewing ANSYS animations on a PC regardless of whether the files were created on a PC (AVI files) or on a UNIX
workstation (ANIM files).
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