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  1. robo1billion

    FEA Interview

    Hi everyone, My background is in academic research with a number of FEA structural projects under my belt. I am considering a move into industry as a FEA analyst possibly in the oil/gas industry. I'm sure there are some on here that have been on interview panels and have a good idea what to...
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    General mesh question

    This is something I want to clear up in my head in relation to the terminology used for meshing. Terms that are typically used are structured/unstructured, regular/irregular and in the case of Ansys mapped/free. My question is do all these terms refer to the same thing? i.e. does structured =...
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    Best way to do sensitivity analysis

    Does anyone here have a recommended way to do manual sensitivity analyses. I had been using the *create *end *use in conjunction with the built in optimisation functionality (/opt). However, I found even when using the zero order optimisation option that my results are very dependent on my...
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    Solid model constraints not transferring to nodes

    Hi, This may be related to a recent question I posted regarding selecting geometric entities using their coordinates. Using the APDL I first of all select a line using the LSEL command to apply a constraint. Then I try to apply another constraint to a different line using LSEL again. However...
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    How to select volumes using VSEL

    Does anyone know a way of selecting a volume whereby an exact location within the volume can be specified. When I use VSEL within a cylindrical coordinate system I can either specify the value of the x coordinate or the value of the angle coordinate (i.e. theta or the equivalent of y in a...

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