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Urgent ANSYS help

Urgent ANSYS help

Urgent ANSYS help

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My final research paper is due over the weekend, and I need help quickly. I am trying to make a functionally graded material (FGM) and apply loads to radial rings attached to the FGM using ANSYS. I am using the axisymmetric feature on ANSYS, and I am encountering problems with how to mate or glue each ring to the FGM. I am attaching a photo of the system in 2-D. I am fairly new with ANSYS, so I am unsure how I should glue each part together. If referencing the photo, you can see that the four rectangular pieces in the middle make up the FGM, and the 6 outer rectangles will make the radial rings when axisymmetry is applied. I need the surface of each of the 6 outer rectangles to be attached to the surface of the FGM. If I use the glue>areas>pick all command then ANSYS seems to think that the whole system is one instead of separate radial layers along with a FGM that is layered. Can anyone help me with this?

RE: Urgent ANSYS help

I'm not sure what exactly do you want, maybe you need two parts connected perfectly, you may connect nodes or merge them after meshing.

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