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Transient Thermal-stress analysis

Transient Thermal-stress analysis

Transient Thermal-stress analysis

(OP)
Hello,

Can anybody help with issue of transient thermal stress? I managed to make thermal transient analysis, change et and get some structural results using thermal results. But i've obtained only static solution (as i read in help - ansys takes only first or last result from thermal transient file) so i have displacement at...the end of analysis i think...
So - how to force ansys to make nice animation about how my object changes it's shape during cooling?  

RE: Transient Thermal-stress analysis

I can think of 2 methods:
1. use direct coupled field elements and you can post-process the animation as required
2. for each time step that you have done a (sequential) thermal-stress analysis run, export out a plot in the same orientation and scale. Then, use a graphics program to create an animation from the plot files. Of course, you may also do this using the .grph files from ANSYS with some APDL scripting

RE: Transient Thermal-stress analysis

(OP)
thank, direct coupled element helped a lot.
but according to the se2nd option - is there possibility to import thermal temperature result file entirely (lets say my 100 substeps) or i have to solve problem 100 times, reading .rth file with different substep?

thank
sebastian

RE: Transient Thermal-stress analysis

Yes, if you use the 2nd method, you will have to solve the thermal-stress portion sequentially and for all the substeps that you want to extract a plot of the displacement. This is best done with an APDL script and a *DO loop.

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