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Hello everyone, I am trying to design an element that its purpose is providing stiffness and damping. The material that I wish to use is rubber. My question is, how can we calculate the damping coefficient (c) for the calculation of the term c*dx/dt, when we know the loss factor of the...

Hello everyone, I am trying to use ANSYS to calculate the reaction force in the edge of a buckled thin plate. (One edge is constrained and the other edge is displaced). According to what I read in the Help Documentation, the study should be done in Static Structural, and a stabilization...

Gobi, Thank you for your time! I did follw your advice and substituted half of the frictionless contacts of the thin plates with body - body joints with the outer rim. Although I don't understand the difference between these two types of constraints. I also removed the frictionless support...

I am not familiar with the "element distortion". But no, as I remember no message like this came up. Rotation is applied by Remote Displacement on cylindrical face. As you wrote, boundary conditions should be a matter to investigate. I did add some frictionless supports, I had a different...

Hello! I started recently to use ANSYS Workbench 15 to solve a stiffness problem of a three parts assembly. I have a general knowledge about FEM. I create the geometry in the Design Modeler by inserting the assembly from Solidworks 2010. It is a three parts assembly like a bicycle's wheel. Two...