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"Joint" and "Symmetry" in APDL

"Joint" and "Symmetry" in APDL

"Joint" and "Symmetry" in APDL

(OP)
hi,

I have modelled a half ship in a 3D CAD software and exported to Ansys (APDL), the element "shell" was used for the hull and the web frames.

I got two questions:

1. How to joint the web frame to the hull?  

it is important to do that because of nodes they both must share at the coincident edge (one surface) and surface (the other one) respectively.


2. I've been searching the way to complete the mesh through a symmetry for the other side of the hull but I didn´t get it.

May someone give some a hint  please?

Kindly regards

Bilmer Gamarra

RE: "Joint" and "Symmetry" in APDL

1.  One option is use NUMMRG.  If you have coincident keypoints, you can merge the keypoints and lines.  Or you can mesh each part individually, then merge the resultant coincident nodes.
2.  One approach is to use NSYM and ESYM.

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