Pre-Analysis and Startup

Pre-Calculations

Click here to view the Pre-Calculations pertaining to this geometry. Remember, it is very important to do some sort of pre-calculation before doing any sort of computational simulation; otherwise, you may get incorrect results from the simulation and you will have nothing to compare the results to.

Open ANSYS Workbench

Now that we have the pre-calculations, we are ready to do a simulation in ANSYS Workbench! Open ANSYS Workbench by going to Start > ANSYS > Workbench. This will open the start up screen seen as seen below

To begin, we need to tell ANSYS what kind of simulation we are doing. If you look to the left of the start up window, you will see the Toolbox Window. Take a look through the different selections. The plate with a hole is a static structural simulation. Load the static structural tool box by dragging and dropping it into the Project Schematic.

Name the Project "Plate with a Hole".

Material Selection

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.

If you look under the Outline of Schematic A2: Engineering Data Window, you will see that the default material is Structural Steel. The Problem Specification specifies the material's Modulus of Elasticity and Poisson's ratio. To add a new material, click in an empty box labeled Click here to add a new material and give it a name. We will call our material Cornellium. On the left hand side of the screen in the Toolbox window, expand Linear Elastic and double click Isotropic Elasticity to specify the Elastic Modulus and Poisson's Ratio. In the Properties of Outline Row 4: Cornellium window, Set the Elastic Modulus units to psi, set the magnitude as 29e6, and set the Poisson's Ratio to .3.

Now that the Material has been specified, we are ready to make the geometry in ANSYS.

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