{"id":30728,"date":"2018-10-04T18:38:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T18:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/help-creating-a-thru-thickness-edge-crack-model\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T18:38:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T18:38:42","slug":"help-creating-a-thru-thickness-edge-crack-model","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/help-creating-a-thru-thickness-edge-crack-model\/","title":{"rendered":"help creating a thru-thickness edge crack model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am trying to use ANSYS workbench to insert a thru-thickness edge crack.&nbsp; A video of what I want to accomplish is shown here.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QiXQM3J4d2A<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">I&#8217;ve attached an image of what I have started.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve created a 3D model of my plate.&nbsp; I also created a &#8216;thin surface.&#8217;&nbsp; I think I need to move this surface to the desired location of the flaw.&nbsp; Does the thin surface need to be slightly oversized?&nbsp; I want the flaw length, or depth, to be 1 inch.&nbsp; Does the thin surface need to protrude from the model by some extent (maybe 10% longer and wider?).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">How do I move the thin surface to the desired location?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">I made to change the elements in my model to the tet shape too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">many thanks in advance!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-30728","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["2900"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0","0","0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["1130"],"_bbp_subscription":["237197"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["30728"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["897","159121","169280"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["11"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["138973"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["138973"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2021-01-16 07:25:24"]},"test":"eknudse3"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/30728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/30728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}