Enggbot
Mechanical
- Sep 16, 2021
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The purpose of my analysis is to obtain the expansion of a metal cylinder when it is heated to a higher temperature and use the deformed model as input model in another analysis.
The cylinder is modeled using brick elements. I have constrained the nodes on one flat surface of the cylinder to prevent any translation along the axial direction.
A higher temperature is provided to all the nodes as load and run a static analysis. Now the result does not show symmetric deformation. Why isn't it a symmetric expansion? I have attached a drawing just to give an idea about the model.
The cylinder is modeled using brick elements. I have constrained the nodes on one flat surface of the cylinder to prevent any translation along the axial direction.
A higher temperature is provided to all the nodes as load and run a static analysis. Now the result does not show symmetric deformation. Why isn't it a symmetric expansion? I have attached a drawing just to give an idea about the model.