To view the initial solution, select from the main project window. The default units in Mechanical are Metric, so go to the top menu bar, select Units and change from Metric to U.S.Customary (in). If you do not do this now then you will likely have to start over so please change your units at this point. We will begin by viewing the total deformation of the plate. Select Total Deformation from the Solution tree in the Project Outline window on the left.
The following images display the results for the initial case in which the radius of the hole is 2 inches.
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Next, let's view the Equivalent Stress values calculated by ANSYS. Select Equivalent (von-Mises) Stress from the tree in the left panel. We would now like to view the stresses as colored contours. Select the Contours from the top toolbar and choose Contour Bands.
The following image should now appear, representing the contour bands representation of the von Mises Stress.
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Next, click Solve in the top toolbar. It turns out that ANSYS only needs one iteration to reach the Allowable Change. After one iteration, we see that there is a change of around 0.10% in the maximum von Mises Stress in the plate. From this, we can conclude that our solution is mesh converged.
To see the final mesh that ANSYS has created during the "convergence" process, select any result and then select "Show Elements" as shown in the figure below.
Next, right click on Convergence in the tree on the left and choose Delete. This is done to speed up the optimization process, which we will now move onto.
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