Recent content by Yoman228

opp.... forget about the *tranform. Think it is the *system that u need to use. "This option is used to define nodes by accepting coordinates relative to a specified local rectangular coordinate system and generating the nodal coordinates in the global coordinate system."

*TRANSFORM may work I belive

Or read the CAE manual, seach for coupling.

Do you mean curvture along pipe? they do not give you by defuard. you need to ask them in the field output.

You can distributed couple the surface to a reference node. then apply the force onto the reference node.

check the token used in the analysis If it is using 9 tokens, then I belive you are using 4 processor.

You can do it with field valabile. *Field It work simlar to *temperture.

Can you just remove the the cell from the view and choose the surface from there?

How good are they in Ansys in doing the Nonlinear buckling analysis compared to ABAQUS?

Opp spelling mistake.. *Shell not shield

I know you can convert the solid mesh into shield mesh. Wonder if you can then change the shield elements into R3D4 elements in keywords. Hoever, I haven't tried it myself, it is just an idea.

Don't they just allow them to roll and then use special flange to connect them together?

How far have you got in the modeling? And what difficulty have you encountered? Can you give a little more details what you trying to do please.

What do you need the reference node for?

Almost fogot, if you only intrested in studying the global respone, then PIPE31 or PIPE31H will be fine.