Recent content by Angel Ochoa

Dear afreiden, thanks a lot for your response. The simulations are actually quasi-static. The indentation is applied over 1 second, but the elements are so small that their inertial effects can be neglected ( I have already checked this and it is widely proven also in literature). In addition...

Hello everybody, I´m simulating a problem of indentation of a tungsten needle tip on an aluminum layer. Before I was using just the module "Static Structural" from ANSYS, which is based on an implicit solver. Now I wanted to do the same simulation with the module "Explicit Dynamics" of ANSYS...