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WS07 Load Steps in Workbench 90
WS07 Load Steps in Workbench 90
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Workshop 7
Load Steps in Workbench
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.
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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
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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.
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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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