Dear Esteemed Eng-tippers
I'm trying to model a device made of stiff, nonlinear elastic filaments wound around a mandrel, then potted in epoxy. I blithely assumed that this would be a doddle, using one of the dozens of Ansys material models, but I'm actually struggling to find an appropriate...
This question has been bugging me since I did a 'driver training day'. It was stated with great authority by the trainer that, contrary to standard practice (and what I had always done) it was more effective to brake harder (ie, more pedal pressure) at the start, when the car was travelling...
I've made a model with conta174 and targe170 elements to tie together layers with dissimilar meshes. I thought it had worked fine, until, as a check, I compared it with a simplified model which had the layers glued together and meshed as one. The results were totally different. Has anyone any...
