WS07 Load Steps in Workbench 90

9.
0 New Features
Workshop 7
Load Steps in Workbench
Metal Shaft with Rubber Boot

ANSYS v9.0
Workbench Load Steps
Workshop
Problem Description
• A rubber boot surrounding a metal shaft is
used to demonstrate the load step new feature
available in the Workbench GUI at ANSYS
version 9.0.
• Load Steps will be used to push the shaft
down, then to the side.
– In previous versions of Workbench, the user would
have to insert commands to perform load step
application. Now, the Workbench GUI supports load step
definition and the viewing of results at each load step.
• The entire analysis will be shown:

– Starting an empty project
– Linking to the DesignModeler geometry file
– Meshing
– Contact
– Hyperelastic and isotropic material properties
– Solution options
– Load Step Definition *** 9.0 NEW FEATURE ***
– Inserting and viewing results
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• START > Programs > ANSYS 9.0 > ANSYS

Workbench.
• Click on Empty Project
• Link to Geometry File > Browse to find
DesignModeler file: BootwithShaft.agdb
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• Click on the link for New simulation

• Close the Simulation Wizard
• Set the units to be metric (mm, kg, N)
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• Mesh
– Click on Mesh and look in the Details
• Change the Global Control from Basic to Advanced
• Slide the Curve/Proximity from 0 to 100
– Right Click on Mesh > Insert > Sizing
• Pick the Shaft body
• Enter an Element Size of 6mm
– Right Click on Mesh > Preview Mesh.
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• Contact Creation
– Rename contact
• Contact > Rename Based on Geometry
• You will now see the Contact Region renamed as “Boot to
Shaft”
– Automatic contact detection
• Automatic contact detection has found the contact
between the shaft and the rubber boot.
• Some settings in the Details of “Boot to Shaft” need to be
changed:
– The automatic contact detection found two contact
surfaces, deselect the conical surface
– Definition > Behavior > Asymmetric
– Advanced > Formulation > MPC
– Manual contact creation
• When the boot is subjected to loading, two ribs of the
boot come into contact with each other. Fortunately, we
already know which ones will come into contact.
• Contact > Insert > Manual Contact Region
– Definition > Type > Rough
– Scope > Contact Bodies > Select the two contact faces
shown in red (on middle rib)
– Scope > Target Bodies > two target faces shown in blue
(on bottom rib)
– Definition > Behavior > Auto Asymmetric
– Advanced > Update Stiffness > Each Equilibrium
Iteration
– Rename based on geometry > Contact region is named
“Boot to Boot”
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• Material Properties
– The Boot is to be modeled with hyperelastic material properties.
Hyperelasticity can be used to analyze rubber-like materials
(elastomers) that undergo large strains and displacements with small
volume changes (nearly incompressible materials). This is done in
Workbench by inserting the appropriate ANSYS commands. Here
we will specify Mooney-Rivlin hyperelastic material properties:
• Right click on Boot > Insert Commands
• Enter the following commands:
TB,HYPE,matid,1,2,mooney !Mooney-Rivlin Properties
TBTEMP,0 !Temperature
TBDATA,,1,0.1,1e-4 !Mooney-Rivlin Constants
keyo,matid,6,1 !U-P Formulation for SOLID186
– Click on Boot and look in the details

• The material shown is Structural Steel, however this material
definition will be deleted by the inserted commands.
• To help prevent volumetric mesh locking, change the Definition
of the Brick Integration Scheme to Reduced.
– The Shaft is aluminum

• In the details of Shaft, click on Structural Steel, then Import
Aluminum Alloy.
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• The Boot is to be fixed at the bottom and

constraints need to be applied on the plane of
symmetry.
• Assign boundary conditions
– Environment > Insert > Fixed Support
• Select the bottom surface of the Boot, shown in green in
the plot
– Environment > Insert > Frictionless Support
• Select the two surfaces of the Boot shown in purple in the
plot.
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• Load Steps
– The shaft is displaced downward, then to the side.
This will be accomplished by using a Remote
Displacement with two load steps.
– Click on Environment
• In the toolbar, change the loading from Static to
Sequence.
• In the Details of Environment, change the sequence steps
from 1 to 2.
– Insert remote displacement

• Select the bottom surface of the Shaft
• The graph at the bottom left of the screen shows what
load step you are defining loads for, select load step 1.
• Load Step 1
– Push the Shaft down by setting the Y component to a
value of –5mm.
– Set the X and Z components to a value of zero mm.
– Set the Rotation X, Y, and Z components to a value of 0
degrees.
– Change the Behavior to Rigid
• Load Step 2 application on the next slide
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– Remote displacement, cont’d

• Load Step 2
– Click on the “2” on the graph at the lower left of the
screen.
– Enter a value of –5 for Y displacement and a value of 25
degrees for rotation about Z. All other values continue to
be set to zero.
– Load steps can also be defined by clicking on the
Worksheet tab and entering the data for each load step.
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• Set the solution options

– Look in the details of Solution
• Change the Solver Type from Program Controlled to
Direct
• Change Weak Springs from Program Controlled to Off
• Change Large Deflection from Off to On
• For Load Step 1, leave Auto Time Stepping as Program
Controlled
• For Load Step 2, change Auto Time Stepping from
Program Controlled to On
– Set the Initial Substeps to 100
– Set the Minimum Substeps to 5
– Set the Maximum Substeps to 1000
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• Insert Results
– Insert Solution Information
• Right Click on Solution > Insert > Solution Information
– Show results for both load steps
• Right Click on Solution and insert Equivalent Stress
– On the graph in the lower left portion of the screen, click
on the “1” (for the first load step)
– Scope the Results to the Boot body only
– Rename this result as “Equivalent Stress Load Step 1”
• Right Click on Solution and insert Equivalent Stress
– On the graph in the lower left portion of the screen, click
on the “2” (for the second load step)
– Scope the Results to the Boot body only
– Rename this result as “Equivalent Stress Load Step 2”
• Repeat for Total Deformation
– Name these results “Total Deformation Load Step 1” and
“Total Deformation Load Step 2”
– These results can be shown for both the Boot and the
Shaft together
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• Insert Results, cont’d

– Right Click on Solution > Insert > Contact Tool >
Contact Tool
– In the details of Contact Tool, pick the 4 rib faces that
were selected for “Boot to Boot” contact
• Below Contact Tool, select Status, define and name it for
Load Step 1
• Repeat for Load Step 2
• Also, insert Contact Pressure for Load Steps 1 and 2
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• The analysis is ready to be solved. However,

this takes some time, so if you want to skip to
the results then open the
BootwithShaft_Solved.dsdb file.
• If you choose to solve the analysis, while it is
solving view the Solution Information > Solver
Output in the Worksheet tab.
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• View the Equivalent Stress Results for each load step
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• View the Total Deformation Results for each load step
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• View the contact status and pressure for load step 2
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9.

Metal Shaft with Rubber Boot

• The entire analysis will be shown:

• START > Programs > ANSYS 9.0 > ANSYS

• Click on the link for New simulation

– Click on Boot and look in the details

– The Shaft is aluminum

• The Boot is to be fixed at the bottom and

– Insert remote displacement

– Remote displacement, cont’d

• Set the solution options

• Insert Results, cont’d

• The analysis is ready to be solved. However,

• View the Equivalent Stress Results for each load step

• View the Total Deformation Results for each load step

• View the contact status and pressure for load step 2

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