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Urban Blast 2
Introduction to ANSYS AUTODYN
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Urban Blast 2
Goal
• Model a blast in an urban environment
Procedure
• Run 2D analysis to create remap file
• Import urban environment geometry and
start AUTODYN
• Fully couple multi‐material Euler solver
with blast to the geometry
• Extend the Euler grid
• Create some animations of results
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Quick Instructions
• Start Workbench and create and open a Double Precision AUTODYN system
• Set up the 2D axi‐symmetric geometry below, with origin (0,0) and 50 mm
elements
AIR
I.E. = 206640.0
20,000 mm (400 elements)
You can skip setting
up this 2D axi‐
symmetric problem if
you wish. The datafile
• Place a Detonation Point at (1800,0) autodyn.fil created
• Set a large Energy Reference Cycle here, and used in the
3D problem, is
• Run to 12 ms included in the
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Quick Instructions
‐ Write out a Datafile for remapping into 3D
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Quick Instructions
• In the same Workbench Project,
create an Explicit Dynamics system
• Import the 3D geometry file
UrbanEnvironment.agdb and open
Mechanical
• Set the Stiffness Behavior of all
bodies to Rigid
• Mesh the buildings with the default
settings
• Insert Standard Earth Gravity (this
will have no significant effect over
the time frame of this analysis, but a
load must be applied in order to link
to AUTODYN)
• Set an End Time of 0.05 s
• From the Project Page, Link to
AUTODYN (Double Precision)
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Quick Instructions
• In AUTODYN, Load Air and TNT from the
AUTODYN Material Library
• Create an Initial Condition
– Name: StillAir
– Include Material: Air
– Initial Density: 0.001225
– Internal Energy: 206640.0
• Create an Euler Multi‐material Part
– Origin x0, y0, z0: (‐25000, ‐49000, 0)
– Size DX, DY, DZ: ( 80000, 80000, 40000)
– Cells in IJK directions: (80, 80, 40)
– Fill with Initial Condition: StillAir
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Quick Instructions
• Remap the 2D solution at 12 ms into the Euler Part
Internal Energy contour plot, 35% opacity
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Quick Instructions
• Turn on Euler‐Lagrange Coupling
– Coupling Type: Fully Coupled
– Fully Auto
• Set the End Time to 50 ms
• Change the Timestep Safety Factor
to 0.66
• Change the Start Time (under
Timestep Options) to 12 ms (the
time at the end of the 2D
simulation)
• Run the analysis
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Quick Instructions
• The calculation stops at 50 ms
• Save the model (if you make a
mistake going forward, you can
then reload the model)
Pressure contour plot, 35% opacity
• Dezone the Euler mesh by a
factor of 2 in each direction
• Notice that the IJK range has
been reduced to (41x41x21)
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Quick Instructions
• Extend the size of the Euler
mesh an extra 20 cells in
both the negative and
positive I and J directions
and in the positive k
direction
– To do this, enter these ranges
• The additional IJK space needs to
be meshed. The easiest way to
do this is to carefully use
Zoning>Box to re‐zone the entire Origin x0, y0, z0: (-65000, -89000, 0)
mesh so that the original Size DX, DY, DZ: ( 160000,
elements stay at the same 160000, 80000)
physical location
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Quick Instructions
• Fill the new expanded IJK range
with StillAir
– This can be done with 5 fills:
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Quick Instructions
• Change the End Time to 150ms
• Change the Energy Reference Cycle
to the current cycle
• Continue the Simulation (press Run)
• Create some animations of the
results
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