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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

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.

RE: How to include wall thickness and mass per unit length for Plane Strain elements

I don't know what a D fender is, or what you mean by Real constants, but beam elements with section properties based on unit width can be used in a plane strain analysis.

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RE: How to include wall thickness and mass per unit length for Plane Strain elements

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Its a term in Ship building. Anyway that not important. Real constants is an option wherein Thickness, Cross section area etc etc can be defined. What I meant is how can I add wall thickness and mass/length in Ansys where in I have to use just 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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