ANSYS workbench: Analysing soil-structure interaction in Workbench
ANSYS workbench: Analysing soil-structure interaction in Workbench
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For my master thesis in constructional engineering, I'm trying to construct a model of a out of plane historical tower along with it's foundation and the underlying soil. This includes:
- 3D solid model of the tower (made out of different 3D solids imported as .sat's) analysed with "static structural" analysis system
- underlying foundation (3D solid imported as .sat )
- Surrounding soil made out of different layers
The tower itself isn't that big of a problem.
However, I have no idea how to make soil-structure analysis's or how to even correctly define the soil in in Ansys or Ansys workbench.
Any help?
- 3D solid model of the tower (made out of different 3D solids imported as .sat's) analysed with "static structural" analysis system
- underlying foundation (3D solid imported as .sat )
- Surrounding soil made out of different layers
The tower itself isn't that big of a problem.
However, I have no idea how to make soil-structure analysis's or how to even correctly define the soil in in Ansys or Ansys workbench.
Any help?





RE: ANSYS workbench: Analysing soil-structure interaction in Workbench
RE: ANSYS workbench: Analysing soil-structure interaction in Workbench
Also does the drucker prager model take into account the consolidation of the soil over time?
Thank you for your help
RE: ANSYS workbench: Analysing soil-structure interaction in Workbench
I suppose that you can do it in workbench, but you will still need to use command snippets to include more complex behavior into your model. Search for ansys best of the best worlds for more information.
This is a complex task. I have only observed succesfull results made in MAPDL.
If you can read in Russian I can recommend you Ansys section on forum.dwg.ru, there some pieces of advice there that can help you.
As far as I know material library of ansys that can be applied for soils is extremely limited, and a lot of users prefer Abaqus for this purposes.
I am not sure about this but for consolidation you can try to implement creep model, or maybe develop a table for material parameters that will depend on the time value.