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ANSYS Structural Mechanics PDF
ANSYS Structural Mechanics PDF
Mechanics
Steven Varnam
ANSYS UK
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ANSYS Mechanical FEA Suite
Solver Technology
Special Elements
Rebars/Reinforcements Beam Elements
Links/Pipes/Springs Multi material beam analysis
Cohesive Zone Beam Cross Section Definition
User Elements
Gaskets
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Analysis Methods & Solvers
Materials Modeling
Material Models
Isotropic/Orthotropic Elasticity
Hyperelasticity
Plasticity
Viscoelasticity
Viscoplasticity
Creep
Hyperelastic Material
Other Models
Cast Iron Plasticity
Drucker-Prager
Shape Memory Alloy
USERMAT
Gasket Material
Concrete
Gurson Damage
Gasket Material
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Analysis Methods & Solvers
Contact Analysis
Fuel Assemblies
Coolant Pumps
Pressurizers
Steam Generators
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Containment
Challenges
– Determining accurate seismic Hoop stresses in
loads and responses a containment
building with
– Providing accurate safety retrofit hole
analyses to regulators
Benefits of CAE
– Avoid over-designing by performing
accurate seismic analyses
– Accident simulation when 1-D tools
are insufficient
• Impact of accidents on structural
integrity
• Fracture mechanics
• Showing jet-strike survivability
Deflections x 25
Deformation of a
fuel rod spring
Benefits of CAE
– Reduce design time and physical prototypes through simulation
• Spring design
• Assembly seismic vibration analysis
• Fluid-structure interaction simulation
Geometry image courtesy of the Korean Atomic
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Reactor Pressure Vessels
• Geometry
– Direct CAD Links
• Connect to real CAD models
and create true parametric
analysis
– Create analysis geometry
• Geometry clean-up
• Simplification
• Create Shell & Beam
geometry
– Work with imported files
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ANSYS Structural Mechanics
• Preprocessing
• Materials
• Linear-Elastic
• Plastic
• Hyper-elastic
• Creep
• Soils, Concrete
• Damage models
• Meshing
• From fully automatic to highly controlled
• Loads
• Imported data fields
• Time dependant
• Complex systems
• Contact
• Model real assemblies
• Bonded, Frictionless & Frictional contact
• Solving
• ANSYS solver technology
evolving to keep pace
with PC developments
• Multi-core
• 32 & 64 bit
• Clusters
• GPU
• Postprocessing
• Stress, Strain, Creep,
Contact, Reactions
• Linearisation
• Images
• Tabular data Excel
• Movie files
• Automated report
generation
• DOE
– Select DOE type
– Custom + Sampling (OSF)
• Candidate designs
• Response surface
• Six Sigma analysis
– Manufacturing best/worst case
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Spectrum analysis
Deterministic:
• Response Spectrum
Probabilistic:
• Random vibration
Benefits 80000
Supernode
CPU Time
Non-iterative – i.e. will not fail to converge 40000
Applications 0
Courtesy of Korea
Atomic Energy
Research Institute
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Fuel pin on spring Courtesy of Korea
Atomic Energy Research Institute
• Simulation
– Fuel rod depresses spring 0.3mm
– Calculate overall force, local contact pressures and stresses
– Parametric study highlighting the effect of spring width on fuel rod force
Response parameters
Reaction
force
Contact
pressures
• Response surfaces
• 20 years ago
• Today
– Import CAD geometry > auto mesh > ±3σ variation in material
properties > ±3σ variation in load values > durability assessment