If you do not specify a job name, all files receive the name FILE or file, depending on the operating system.GUI: Utility Menu>File>Change Job name Ansys CFDThe ANSYS element library contains more than 100 different element types. DB.) By using a job name for each analysis, you insure that no files are overwritten. (The extension or suffix for these filesвЂ™ names is a file identifier such as. When you define a job name for an analysis, the job name becomes the first part of the name of all files the analysis creates. Category Command Description Syntax The job name is a name that identifies the ANSYS job.

Depending on the application, material properties may be: While defining the elements, you point to the appropriate real constant reference number using the REAL command(Main Menu> Preprocessor>Create>Elements>Elem Attributes).Most element types require material properties. Not all element types require real constants, and different elements of the same type may have different real constant values.As with element types, each set of real constants has a reference number, and the table of reference number versus real constant set is called the real constant table. For example, real constants for BEAM3, the 2-D beam element, are area (AREA), moment of inertia (IZZ), height (HEIGHT), shear deflection constant (SHEARZ), initial strain (ISTRN), and added mass per unit length (ADDMAS). PLANE77 has a thermal degree of freedom (TEMP), is an eight-node quadrilateral element, and can be modeled only in 2-D space.Element real constants are properties that depend on the element type, such as cross-sectional properties of a beam element. The following element categories are available.The element type determines, among other things:The degree-of-freedom set (which in turn implies the discipline-structural, thermal, magnetic, electric, quadrilateral, brick, etc.)Whether the element lies in two-dimensional or three-dimensional space.For example, BEAM4, has six structural degrees of freedom (UX, UY, UZ, ROTX, ROTY,ROTZ), is a line element, and can be modeled in 3-D space.

Several convenience operations, such as copying patterns of existing nodes and elements, symmetry reflection, etc. With direct generation, you вЂњmanuallyвЂќ define the location of each node and the connectivity of each element. You can control the size and shape of the elements that the program creates. ANSYS identifies each set with a unique reference number.Main Menu > Preprocessor> Material Props > Material Models.Once you have defined material properties, the next step in an analysis is generating a finite element model-nodes and elements-that adequately describes the model geometry.There are two methods to create the finite element model: solid modeling and direct generation.With solid modeling, you describe the geometric shape of your model, and then instruct the ANSYS program to automatically mesh the geometry with nodes and elements. Within one analysis, you may have multiple material property sets (to correspond with multiple materials used in the model). The table of material reference numbers versus material property sets is called the material table.

Load steps are also useful in dividing a transient load history curve into several segments. In a structural analysis, for example, you may apply wind loads in one load step and gravity in a second load step. A load step is simply a configuration of loads for which you obtain a solution. Loads in the ANSYS program are divided into six categories:You can apply most of these loads either on the solid model (keypoints, lines, and areas) or the finite element model (nodes and elements).Two important load-related terms you need to know are load step and substep. You also can apply loads using the PREP7 preprocessor.The word loads as used in this manual includes boundary conditions (constraints, supports, or boundary field specifications) as well as other externally and internally applied loads.

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