Pre-analysis & Start-Up

Open ANSYS Workbench

Open ANSYS Workbench by going to Start > ANSYS > Workbench. This will open the start up screen seen as seen below.

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Name the project:  Modal Analysis of a Satellite.

Engineering Properties

Now we need to specify what type of material we are working with. Double click Engineering Data and it will take you to the Engineering Data Menus.

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We need to define the density as well.  Expand Physical Properties and double click density. In the Properties of: Al 6061-T6 window, a density bar will have appeared. Define it as being 2700 kg/m^3.

Go to Step 2 - : Geometry

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