{"id":313790,"date":"2023-10-28T21:46:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T21:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-model-a-rope-in-ansys-for-a-mechanical-analysis\/"},"modified":"2023-10-28T21:46:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T21:46:11","slug":"how-to-model-a-rope-in-ansys-for-a-mechanical-analysis","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-model-a-rope-in-ansys-for-a-mechanical-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Model a Rope in Ansys for a Mechanical Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Ansys community,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/28-10-2023-1698529433-mceclip0.png\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/28-10-2023-1698529511-mceclip1.png\"><\/p>\n<p>I am currently working on an analysis of a mechanical device (Solid 1 and Solid 3) where the primary goal is to accurately represent the physics of the device, and not to analyze the rope itself. For this purpose, I&#8217;ve created the rope (referred to as Body 2) as a single solid. I apply either displacement or force to one end of the rope, and due to the friction between the rope and the curved part of solid 1, it causes solid 1 to rotate and squeeze the rope between solid 1 and solid 3.<\/p>\n<p>The rope is composed of multiple individual fibers and has low transverse stiffness; it is not a homogeneous block of isotropic material, and the individual fibers are not bonded together. My question is: what is the simplest and most effective way to represent the properties of this rope in Ansys?<\/p>\n<p>Is the main challenge here to define the rope as an orthotropic material? I&#8217;m quite new to using Ansys, and I&#8217;m struggling to find the right approach to model such a rope accurately.<\/p>\n<p>Any help or guidance on how to model this rope in Ansys would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your assistance. I&#8217;m an amateur in using the Ansys software, and I&#8217;m having difficulty finding the solution to this particular modeling problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-313790","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-cfd-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["40503","20905","170445"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.206.193.146"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["6923"],"_edit_lock":["1698529874:222592"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["313790"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["20905","40503","170445"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["5"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["320144"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["320144"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-11-29 23:30:32"]},"test":"ksoltykstudent-agh-edu-pl"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/313790","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\/313790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}