{"id":33075,"date":"2019-02-05T12:40:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T12:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-apdl-commands\/"},"modified":"2019-02-05T12:40:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T12:40:43","slug":"ansys-apdl-commands","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-apdl-commands\/","title":{"rendered":"ANSYS APDL COMMANDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am doing a numerical analysis using ANSYS workbench 15.0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The model contain 130 concrete body, 160 steel bars, and about 300 contact elements between the bodies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>To&nbsp;select SOLID65, or LINK180 in ANSYS workbench it must use command objects.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>1- Because of the high number of elements, It takes a while to input the material properties for&nbsp;all elements.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I want to ask, How can I use an APDL code to assign the material properties for all concrete elements&nbsp;only at&nbsp;once and also for the&nbsp;Steel elements. (For example, how to select all the concrete bodies through command then&nbsp;assign the material properties of concrete,&nbsp;after,&nbsp; select all steel bars and assign to them the material&nbsp; properties of steel, and the same things for contacts)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>2- Sometimes, when I solved the model ANSYS recommended to switch the solver to unsymmetrical, Knowing that I am using a Static Analyses and this solver type does not exist in Workbench, only Direct and Iteration solvers exist in Solver Type.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>How can I select the Unsymmetrical solver?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>3- The above message (unsymmetrical solver) appears when I use the frictional contact type with a friction coefficient greater then 0.2<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I would like to know, why ANSYS recommended a friction coefficient less or equal to 0.2 and didn&#8217;t allow a higher value?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-33075","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-apdl","topic-tag-apdl-commands","topic-tag-mechanical-apdl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["5247"],"_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":["3240"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["33075"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["157553","159332"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["77363"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["77363"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-02-09 19:46:16"]},"test":"amin"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/33075","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\/33075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}