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The mesh refinement was carried our for the Candidate A case from the second optimization. That is the radius of the hole was set to 1.4725 inches.
Element Size (In) | Number of Elements | Equivalent Von Mises Stress (PSI) |
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1 | 239 | 32,480 |
0.5 | 536 | 32,718 |
0.25 | 1,840 | 32,695 |
Optimization Methods
The optimization was carried using each of the four optimization methods offered in ANSYS workbench. Note that the default optimization method in ANSYS is Screening.
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