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[Chethan]

I have designed a soft electromagnetic actuator using Ansys Maxwell 3D module on Ansys Electronics Desktop. I want to perform a mechanical simulation of the same setup on Ansys Mechanical. How can I transfer this entire setup (including magnetic field, current excitations, and resultant volume-force fields) to Ansys mechanical for stress analysis?

[Erik Kostson]

 

 

 

Hi

 

For Maxwell 3D to Mechanical you can only transfer the electromagnetic forces to a Static Structural system (stress analysis only has displacement degress of freedom, not magnetic and electric, so we can not transfer the last 2, only forces we transfer) to look at stresses, or transfer electromagnetic losses to thermal analysis to calculate the resulting temperatures due to these losses.

See here for some appliccations.

https://www.ansys.com/products/electronics/ansys-maxwell

 

One drags and drop the solution cell from Maxwell to the Static Analysis Setup or Thermal Analysis Setup cell in order to do the above mentioned transfers.

 

All the best

 

Erik

 

[Chethan]

Yes, I think the Force distribution would be good enough for me to find the stress,strain and deformations of the actuator. Could you please be more elaborate about the process of how it can be done in workbench?

[Erik Kostson]

Hi

As we said One drags and drop the solution cell from Maxwell to the Static Analysis Setup or Thermal Analysis Setup cell in order to do the above mentioned transfers - see below.

 

You might find more info if you search on the internet:

Web-search

All the best

Erik