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ANSYS Workbench - Airplane Chair Drop Test - Which Solver?

ANSYS Workbench - Airplane Chair Drop Test - Which Solver?

ANSYS Workbench - Airplane Chair Drop Test - Which Solver?

(OP)
Hello there Eng-Tips

My master thesis consists in making a drop test of an airplane chair, and I want to do this in workbench, however, I don't know which solver to use. From what I've been reading and exploring in workbench, there are 3 solvers: Explicit Dynamics, AutoDyn, Explicit Dynamics (LS-Dyna Export), and I really don't know which is best to Import a CAD geometry with multiple parts, mesh it, import a Crash Test Dummy (*.k file), apply conditions and solve.

Any thoughts?

RE: ANSYS Workbench - Airplane Chair Drop Test - Which Solver?

Use MSC Nastran, one solver and no confusion? I recently saw one of their guys set up and review the results of a bottle drop in 10 minutes! Here is their link of the demo,

http://youtu.be/eOIAfzJjJyo?hd=1&t=32m35s

RE: ANSYS Workbench - Airplane Chair Drop Test - Which Solver?

(OP)
Thanks, but I really don't have the time to learn a new program right now. If you have any knowledge about the explicit module on ANSYS Workbench, please advise.

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