Do I need a temperature-displacement step?
Do I need a temperature-displacement step?
(OP)
Hello,
I'm trying to do an analysis with different temperatures within my model parts. The thing is that my punch consists of two parts with different temperatures. I tried a temperature-displacement step but got error-messages concerning the degrees of freedom and possible wrong element. Now I'm asking myself if a thermal analysis is really necessary or if it suffices to just aply thermal loads for each set?
I hope someone can help me...
Regards
mageldai
I'm trying to do an analysis with different temperatures within my model parts. The thing is that my punch consists of two parts with different temperatures. I tried a temperature-displacement step but got error-messages concerning the degrees of freedom and possible wrong element. Now I'm asking myself if a thermal analysis is really necessary or if it suffices to just aply thermal loads for each set?
I hope someone can help me...
Regards
mageldai





RE: Do I need a temperature-displacement step?
When you just want to apply a homogeneous temperature or temperature change for parts, then you don't need temperature DOFs. You can define it like a BC. So a static analysis and regular elements would be enough.