Welcome to the Ansys Tutorial

Dept of Mechanical Engg, IITG, Assam

A Presentation on Static Analysis Using Ansys

Types of analysis Static Dynamic Harmonic Fatigue Electromagnetic Seismic

Static analysis can be done in two methods like (i) GUI (Graphic User Interface) method and (ii) APDL (Ansys parametric design language) method.

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In GUI, the icons are used to create and analyse the model in ANSYS. By clicking the icons in the screen using the input devices ,the model is generated. In APDL, the code is generated to create and analyse the model. Different materials are in the material library

Finite Elements in Ansys

Ansys is a tool which can also be used for Finite element analysis. The model or domain can be discretised using known elements. The elements are made up of nodes. The material properties also can be assigned to the materials manually.

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The volume or area is meshed then. The density of the mesh also can be defined. The boundary conditions are fixed and the loads are also applied. Structural Loads are of different types. (i) Force load (ii) Pressure load (iii) Temperature and (iv) inertia

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Finishing the solution task and solve the problem. Post processing The nodal solutions and element solutions in terms of stress, strain and displacements can be seen in pictorial view as well as numbers. Using Pr and Pl commands the outputs can be seen.

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Completing the analysis and quit the Ansys with or without saving your database file using quit command. From this stress values and strain values , the fatigue value also can be calculated in the next steps. Optimization also can be done over the model using optimization task.

Try the problems given to you in the handout

All the Best

Thank you
M.Sivasankar, M.E (CAD) Research Scholar, Dept of Mechanical Engg, IIT Guwahati, Assam