How to apply a load on the crack surface?
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I want to obatain the stress intensity factor from a semi-elliptical crack in the inner wall of a pipe. The boundary conditions are the one in the first image. Everything works okey but the problem is that the crack is in reality opened. This will result in opening the crack even more, so the stress intensity factor values will be higher. The problem is, that in ANSYS workbench, I do not know how to apply the pressure on the crack faces as the crack is created only in mesh, not in the geometry (you can not pick the crack faces areas and apply the pressure because the areas are simply not there).
What I try to explain if I can apply a load on this crack surface. The light blue is where the pressure is applied and the strong blue is where I would like to know if it is possible also to apply the load.n
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You can apply pressure to a crack face using Named Selections containing the nodes on the crack face. Those Named Selections are automatically created using the Semi-Elliptical crack object.nn
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