Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Exercise5 PDF
Exercise5 PDF
The nozzle design in this exercise (figure below) is similar in concept to one used
in a current jet fighter engine in service today. It consists of a series of flaps
hinged to a ring (A) at the forward section, and connected to a secondary outer
ring (B) through a set of struts (C). Moving the outer ring forward or backwards
controls the throat area of the nozzle. Vectoring is accomplished by tilting the
outer ring, or moving it up/down/left/right relative to the engine axis. These
movements are controlled by a series of actuator arms connected to the outer ring
(not shown).
C: Struts
A: Flap hinge
ring
B: Outer ring
The ANSYS/Professional MTB will be used to import the shell model. The
AutoContact feature will be used to automatically detect and model the assembly
interfaces with contact elements.
1.1.A
1.1.B
1.1.C
1.1.D
2.1.D
2.1.E
3.1.A
3.1.B
3.1.D
3.1.E
3.1.C
F. Ansys will ask if you want to import this model as an assembly. Pick
Yes.
3.1.F
3.2.C
3.2.D
Problem 5: Fighter Jet Vectoring Nozzle -8-
E. Next, we will define a thickness for the flaps. In the default shapes list,
pick Shell.
3.2.E
F. A dialog will appear for you to define a new shell property. Enter Flaps
for the name, and 0.05 for the thickness.
G. Pick OK.
3.2.F
3.2.G
H. Pick the Assign Shape button again to assign this property to the flaps.
3.2.H
3.2.I
3.2.J
3.2.K
3.2.L
3.2.M
3.2.N
3.2.O
3.2.P
3.2.Q
3.2.R
3.2.S
3.2.T
3.3.A
B. A dialog box will appear for you to select a material. Pick Titanium.
C. Continue.
D. In the Select Areas for Material dialog, click the Pick All button
3.3.B
3.3.C
3.3.D
3.3.E
3.4.A
3.4.B
View/Modify
Contact: View
existing contact
pairs and modify
their properties.
3.4.D
E. A dialog will appear with all the contact surfaces listed. The first pair will
be highlighted and shown in graphics window.
3.4.E
3.4.F
3.4.G
3.4.I
J. You can modify the name for this contact pair to be something more
descriptive if you like. Also, you can choose between bonded or
Frictionless non-separating behavior. Bonded is useful for “welding”
two parts together that have dissimilar meshes. For our model, we want
to change all contact surfaces to be frictionless non-separating. We
could change them here, but we would have to do each one individually.
There is an easier way. Pick Cancel to close this dialog.
3.4.J
3.4.K
L. Pick the Default Contact Properties arrow in the MTB and change the
Bonded behavior to Frictionless No Separation
3.4.L
3.4.M
3.4.N
3.5. Meshing:
A. We are now ready to mesh our model. We will use the default smart size
settings. Pick the Mesh Model button.
3.5.A
3.5.B
3.5.C
4.1.A
B. For this operation, it will be easier to apply loads if our graphics plot is in
the line mode. Use the plot flyout to plot lines.
4.1.B
4.1.C
4.1.D
4.1.E
4.1.F
4.2.B
4.2.C
D. A dialog will appear for you to enter the displacements. Note the
coordinate system triad in the upper right corner of your graphics
window. Enter the three displacements as shown below.
E. OK.
4.2.D
4.2.E
4.2.G
4.2.F
4.2.H
4.2.I
4.2.J
4.2.K
4.2.L
4.2.M
4.2.N
4.2.O
4.2.P
4.2.Q
Hint: If you click and hold the left mouse button while dragging across the screen,
each area to be selected will be highlighted. The area is not actually selected until
you release the button. If you accidentally select a wrong area, click the right
mouse button. The cursor will change from an upward pointing arrow to a
downward pointing arrow indicating that you can now unpick items from the
selection with the left mouse button. Click the right button again to toggle back to
picking.
4.3.B
4.3.D
4.3.E
4.3.F
Hint: When working with shell elements, positive pressure loads act on the
“top” face of the element. This orientation is determined by the element normal
direction, which in turn is determined by the orientation of the area that the
elements belong to. Since we have no way to control this in our model, it is
easiest to just guess at a positive or negative sign, apply the loads and see
what happens. ANSYS will draw arrows indicating the direction the loads act.
If we guess incorrectly, just reapply the loads again changing the sign of the
pressure. The new loads will overwrite the old ones.
4.3.G
4.3.H
4.3.I
4.3.J
4.3.K
4.3.L
M. Pick the Boundary Conditions button to turn off the pressure arrows.
4.3.M
4.3.N
Count should be 5.
4.3.O
4.3.P
4.3.Q
S. Use the dynamic viewing controls to verify that all pressure load areas
are pointing in the correct direction now. Note that the arrow color may
have changed from red to blue, but the arrow direction is the important
indicator.
4.3.S
5.1.A
B. A dialog will appear for you to enter a database name to save to. Enter
nozzle1.db.
C. Save.
5.1.B
5.1.C
5.2.A
5.2.B
5.2.D
6.1.A
6.1.B
6.1.C
6.1.D
6.2.A
6.2.B
C. A warning will pop up that there are two items at this location. Since this
node is connected to elements in both the flap and the strut, there are
stress values associated with it from both parts. Pick the Next button to
display the other stress result at this node.
6.2.C
6.2.D
E. In the Query Subgrid Results dialog, pick the generate 3D Anno button.
F. OK.
6.2.E
6.2.F
6.2.G
6.3.A
6.3.B
6.3.C
E. Let’s repeat this procedure and animate the von Mises stress results as
well. In the Results Item list, select Equivalent Stress.
6.3.E
6.3.F
6.3.G
6.3.I
6.3.H
6.3.J
6.4.B
C. It may take a few minutes. When completed, ANSYS will launch the
report in your default Internet browser. Pick the image below for a
sample report.
7.1.B
7.1.C
7.1.A