Hi, I'm fairly new at WB, actually FEA in general. I'm doing a shrink fit analysis of two rings. The outer ring is shrink fitted onto the inner. In my 3D model, I already model the shrink fit. When I import it into WB, is there any special thing I need to do to let WB know that it is a shrink fit?
Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations TugboatEng on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Shrink Fit in WB
- Thread starter Cheetos
- Start date
Stringmaker
Mechanical
Just make sure to flag "Include initial penetration"...other than that things should be fine at their defaults. Make sure that the radial displacements make sense after the analysis as a reality check.
- Thread starter
- #3
I used the contact tool to let ANSYS know that there is an interference. Under the "Initial Information", it shows a spread sheet. What is the difference between Penetration, Geometric Penetration, Resulting Pinball and Contact Depth? So far, the Geometric Penetration matches what I had in my 3D model, but everything else doesn't really make sense to me.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Question
- Locked