How to include wall thickness and mass per unit length for Plane Strain elements
How to include wall thickness and mass per unit length for Plane Strain elements
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Hi,
I am working on Ansys 14.5 and I have to include wall thickness and Mass/Length of a D fender but only Plain Strain elements have to be used. I dont know which element type has to be used to include both of these. I cannot use Beam Elements as Real constants are not required in Beam elements. Can you guys please suggest me what needs to be done as I am new to Ansys.
I am working on Ansys 14.5 and I have to include wall thickness and Mass/Length of a D fender but only Plain Strain elements have to be used. I dont know which element type has to be used to include both of these. I cannot use Beam Elements as Real constants are not required in Beam elements. Can you guys please suggest me what needs to be done as I am new to Ansys.





RE: How to include wall thickness and mass per unit length for Plane Strain elements
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RE: How to include wall thickness and mass per unit length for Plane Strain elements
RE: How to include wall thickness and mass per unit length for Plane Strain elements
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Plane Strain means there is no no strain in the third direction, so the concept of "thickness" is meaningless. A typical Plane Strain model represents an infinitesimal slice through an infinitely long "extrusion", with uniform loading and constraint along the length of the object which is being modelled.
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