Recent content by mischelle

Yes it is working. Thank you very much. How do you make a free free boundary conditions in Ansys?

nvn: my goal is to obtain natural frequencies, not to define forces, moments and others. So in that case I will put for displacement 0 DOF, so I need modal analysis and I know how to do that for single beam where I made a line like a beam through the keypoints, but here I used nodes and mesh is...

nvn: I am near to solve, first to use nodes, not key points, and instead real constants I defined two cross sections, now I have a problem to mesh, after I finish procedure I can see line between nodes 1 and 2 and the line between 2 and 3, but after that when I want to mesh I choose mesh all...

nvn: But I am trying to do this, but when I open Auto Numbered it is not working because it is necessary to no nodes be selected (how). In Element Attributes, I can just choose sections 1 or 2 but I can not select the nodes?

nvn: no it is not possible to define real constants if you choose element 188 for the beam. After choosing the element and try to define real constants I got the message "The beam188 element type does not require real constants "

I followed this procedure. Use beam element 188, then define 1. cross section, then in modeling make nodes 1 and 2, straight line and mesh it. Then come back select second cross section, apply 2. Then make node 3, straight line, then mesh then PlotCtrls-style-size and shape-display of element-on...

Which functions to use for defining?

How to choose from 1 to 2 one cross section? Because in "Sections" I can define 2, 3 cross sections, but how to now on which part is associate it?

Yes, I already did that but the problem is how to do that, how to define for this nodes from 1 to 2 is section b,h and from 2 to 3 is another b1, h1? How to do that?

I have one problem with Ansys. How to make beam with two different cross section areas when "Sections" in Menu accept just one? Regards