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October 27, 2021 at 6:01 pm
dlooman
Ansys Employee
If the weld body is modeled you can apply a heat generation rate in which you divide heat load in J/mm by the cross-sectional area of the weld. Heat generation is applied with the BFE command: BFE,,HGEN,,Value.