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[Nguyen Van Toan]

Hi everyone

I am now working on thermal expansion simulation of a solid wire. This wire is subject to the temperature variation. The thermal expansion coefficient with respect to temperature in axial and radial direction is given in table (b). When I tried to input this data to Engineering Data Module, there is 3 components of thermal expansion coefficient as shown in Table (c). Are they different from experiment data? How can I implement the data into ANSYS?

I really appreciate your help.

[hesamkeshavarzz]

Hello, set your element orientation so that, for example x is perpendicular to shaft surface. there is no way do define mat properties in cylindrical coordinate, change your element orientation, something like the the attached image

[Nguyen Van Toan]

@HesamK
Thank you for your suggestion. However I didn't see any your attached images. Could you share me command snippet?

[hesamkeshavarzz]

Hi I'll upload it again, command isn't needed, search more about element orientation in ansys.