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Pre-analysis & Start-Up

Pre-analysis

The equivalent stiffness of the model can be determined using Hooke's Law.

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where
R The stress, Sigma, is the reaction force divided by the area at the support. The strain, epsilon, is the ratio of displacement over the original length.
delta is the deflection
L is the length of the model

We will find the reaction force and the support and use Hooke's Law the above relation to verify the simulation.

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The following flow chart illustrates the steps to carry out ANSYS simulation starting from Micro CT Scan.

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Open ANSYS Workbench:

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