Buckling analysis with MECHANICAL APDL

- February 25, 2018 at 12:28 pm
  
  DEEPTHISTEPHEN
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  hello,
  how can i get critical buckling load from nonlinear buckling analysis??(STEPS IN NONLINEAR BUCKLING ANALYSIS,post buckling effects)
  Is it possible to CARRY OUT wind buckling and thermal buckling of steel tanks with ANSYS MECHANICAL APDL??(static nonlinear)
- February 25, 2018 at 4:32 pm
  
  peteroznewman
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  Please read this slide deck. On slides 14-18, it explains how to find the critical buckling load by tracking the load-deflection curve. This is the generic approach, you have two specific loads: wind and thermal.
  
  How is wind load applied to the tank? I can imagine it being applied as a bearing force that has a cosine fall off with angle.
  
  How is thermal load applied? I can imagine it being applied as a pressure on tank.
- February 26, 2018 at 4:18 am
  
  DEEPTHISTEPHEN
  Subscriber
  
  Thank you sir for your response.How can apply force in cosine fall of angle,ANSYS APDL??
  
  The steps to follow??
- February 26, 2018 at 4:40 am
  
  peteroznewman
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  I don't know APDL, but I can create a Bearing load in Mechanical and write out the APDL file which I have zipped and attached below.
  
  There is a do loop at the bottom where the bearing load seems to be computed.
- February 27, 2018 at 4:17 am
  
  DEEPTHISTEPHEN
  Subscriber
  
  Thank you sir.
  
  But i can't open this file.Could you please copy this do loop,on the desk??
- February 27, 2018 at 4:33 am
  
  peteroznewman
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  In the previous post, I attached a zip file. Do you not have an unzip program?
  
  In this post, I attached a text file. I expect you can open this.