Ansys Learning Forum Forums Discuss Simulation Preprocessing How to mesh a Perforated Cyclinder for Structural Analysis Reply To: How to mesh a Perforated Cyclinder for Structural Analysis

Govindan Nagappan
Ansys Employee

If it is uniform thickness, you can import the inner surface(as surface body) into Mechanical. Create a surface mesh. Then use Pull extrude to create the solid mesh from the surface mesh

 

Surface body is suppressed after creating the extruded solid mesh

Example:

 

Consider setting quality check to No in details of meshing if the aspect ratio is high. SInce the geometry has high aspect ratio, the resulting mesh might have that as well.

 

Or consider using a shell mesh and define thickness as a property