Has anyone successfully simulated axisymmetric shells in workbench?
I know it's possible in Ansys Mechanical using SHELL209 elements, however drawing a line (to create a disc) in the Workbench Geometry editor then trying to bring that into the downstream systems returns an error about no valid...
I would like to learn about setting up contact problems in ANSYS Mechanical, using scripts. I have found an Alberta University tutorial (http://www.mece.ualberta.ca/tutorials/ansys/CL/CAT/Contact/Print.html), unfortunately several of the commands or elements are no longer available in ANSYS 13...
I'm trying to save a bitmap of the ANSYS screen using /IMAGE each time a loop in my program runs. I would like to use a couple of variable values in the filename so the correct image can be found later. The following code does exactly that, but causes an error dialog box to appear, meaning the...
Is there a way to calculate the unmeshed volume inside a pressure vessel? I have an axisymmetric thinwalled vessel that I'm modelling in APDL with Shell209 elements. As the vessel is pressurised it inflates slightly and I would like to know what the final enclosed volume is.
Calculating the...
