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[issacdktn]

Hi everyone,

I work on a floating structure separated in three parts. These three parts are linked with ball joint. I run hydrodynamic analysis on Ansys Aqwa and I want to link the hydrodynamic pressure from Ansys Aqwa to a static structural analysis on Ansys Mechanical.

But Ansys Mechanical forces me to choose only one part for the mapping of hydrodynamic pressure and therefore I can’t map hydrodynamic pressure on the other two parts. Because of the ball-and-socket joints I need, I can't merge the three parts in only one structure.

Could you please help me to map the hydrodynamic pressure on all the parts of my floating structure?

Thank you.

[Mike Pettit]

Hello,

You will need to set up 3 separate Static Structural analyses sharing the same structural model, then create a Hydrodynamic Pressure object in each analysis to map the loads separately on to each structure. Then you can use Solution Combination (right-click on Model and Insert > Solution Combination) to create a single result (e.g. stress plot) over all three structures.

I hope this helps!

Mike