Reply To: Modelling a construction sequence ‘just-in-time’

[donToto]

 

Hi dlooman,

thanks for your reply and suggestion 🙂 

All parts vary randomly and slightly around some target dimensions and are created before each construction stage. Furthermore, all parts that are already placed deform due to dead load, creep and shrinkage. I want to feedback the resulting coordinates of the current assembly to python where the placement of a new part is optimzed and then, again, input to Ansys. So it is kind of a sequential placement strategy considering transient deformations and fuzzy geometries.

Your suggestion using Birth and Death with an enveloping domain sounds interesting. But would I be able to update material constants like youngs modulus at each stage?