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Optimizing Monitor Real Estate

This tutorial is specially configured, so the user can have both the tutorial and ANSYS open at the same time as shown below. It will be beneficial to have both ANSYS and your internet browser displayed on your monitor. Your internet browser should consume approximately one third of the screen width while ANSYS should take the other two thirds.
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Open ANSYS Workbench

Click on the Start button, then click on All Programs. Once you locate ANSYS click on the the workbench button, Image Removed. It may take some time for ANSYS to open. Once ANSYS opens your computer monitor should look comparable to the image below.
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Static Structural Analysis System

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Analysis 

In the cantilever beam tutorial, we considered the case when a bar is subjected to a transverse load. We solved this case using the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory which assumes that transverse loads can only cause any point on the midline to move in the transverse direction. We denoted this transverse displacement as uy. 

Now consider the case when a bar is subjected to a transverse load as well as an axial load. The transverse load causes a transverse displacement uy of the midline as before. In addition, the axial load causes an elongation or contraction of the midline (as in a truss model). We can denote this axial displacement as ux. The total displacement of any point on the midline is calculated as a superposition of these transverse and axial displacements.

In this problem, each member experiences both transverse and axial loads. So ux and uy are non-zero. The axial displacement has a simple linear variation along the midline as in a truss model.

Engineering Data

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At this point the project can be returned to. Click on the Return to Project button, Image Removed.

Saving

It would be of best interest, to save the project at this point. Click on the "Save As.." button, Image Removed, which is located on the top of the Workbench window. Save the project as "PlaneFrame". When you save in ANSYS a file and a folder will be created. For instance if you save as "PlaneFrame", a "PlaneFrame.wbpj" file and a folder called "PlaneFrame_files" will appear. In order to reopen the ANSYS files in the future you will need both the ".wbpj" file and the folder. If you do not have BOTH, you will NOT be able to access your project.

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