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Hi Corus. Thanks for your reply. Yes, that makes sense and gives me a bit more confidence in the results. Thanks again, M.

Hi there, I've a question regarding the field strain outputs in Abaqus viewer. I'm performing a bending operation of a steel pipe around a reel. My question is with regards to the fact that when using the Max Principal Strains option in the field outputs, the strains are all positive, even in...

hello gk2009, thats great thanks, thats the way i ended up approaching the problem and have managed to resolve the issue. thanks again for the post, m.

thats good thanks for the suggestion, will try it out

Hi there, I'm trying to do some analysis to calculate electrical stress distributions in cable insulation (novice). The element type i'm using is the PLANE230, in order to apply a current to the nodes of the internal diameter of the insulation. My question is, do i need to have some sort of...

hi there, I am just wondering if any users have carried out a two-way heat transfer analysis? I want to apply a heat source to a piece of wire in ansys simulation and take into account the convection currents surrounding it from CFX. I can see that it is possible to apply a 'cfx temperature'...

Hi there, Working in the cable industry and looking for a tutorial / guide to creating macros in hypermesh? if any person has good suggestion, would be very appreciated. thanks, m.

Hi there, Does anyone have experience of carrying out a helical sweep / extrude within Hypermesh? Thanks! m

Thanks for the advice - I'll give these a try and get back with a response on how it went. have recently been trying to utilise the RIKS method but not sure if that could be applied here.... m.

Hi there, I wonder if anyone can help? I'm trying to find a way of getting an analysis to terminate anutomatically when a spring element is crushed to a predetermined strain / displacement. I guess its along the lines of specifying some sort of constraint between the reference nodes of the...

no its not a homework question. ok, thats great thanks, i'll give it a try and get back..

Hello edison123, Thanks for your reply. OK, i've been doing some investigative work into power factors but i'm a bit confused. From what i can gather, i have a voltage and a current which enables me to calculate the 'apparent power'. However, i'm not sure how to go about calculating the voltage...

Hi there, Just a fundamental question which i hope someone may have the time to answer. I'm trying to do some complex number calculations. I'm not really familiar with this but have found some good tutorials and so have do ok so far! My question is: Is it possible to find the phase angle by...

Hi there, I'm hoping someone may be able to help with an emag question... I'm using emag to calculate the induced voltage from one 'loaded' power cable onto an adjacent unloaded cable. I've used the AZ VOLT option on the conductor to which i'm applying the current. However, I'm not sure as to...

thats great, thanks i'll give that a try.