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Defining Thickness of 2D Geometries

    • January 4, 2019 at 9:57 pm
      shisyphus
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      A beginner in ANSYS here. I was wondering why it is required to input thickness for 2D geometries? Why can't we simulate while having zero thickness? Does this have something to do with meshing..?

    • January 4, 2019 at 11:18 pm
      peteroznewman
      Subscriber

      Many 2D analyses will use the thickness of a surface body in the computation. For example, Plane Stress will use the thickness value in the solver. Contrast that with Plane Strain which does not use the thickness value at all.

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