{"id":346805,"date":"2024-01-26T16:17:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T16:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-define-self-weight-of-a-structural-body-in-static-study\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T16:17:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T16:17:45","slug":"how-to-define-self-weight-of-a-structural-body-in-static-study","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-define-self-weight-of-a-structural-body-in-static-study\/","title":{"rendered":"How to define self-weight of a structural body in static study?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I know that bodies are assigned a material in Mechanical workbench with the default as Structural Steel, but I created my own material and assigned it to the structural Body.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My question here is does Ansys consider the density of the material with regards to the design and size of the body and assigns a certain weight to it by default? If so can I manually assign a weight to the body, for example I want my structural body to be made of Aluminum alloy material and It should have a weight of around 250lbs how can I add that weight to the body (considering this as a static structural analysis) and Is it mandotary to always add a weight to the structure no matter what analysis you are doing?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-346805","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-material"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["81815","240","337930"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.206.193.41"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["3595"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["346805"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","81815"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["349134"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["349134"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-02-05 14:13:58"]},"test":"582cf6974f54a4d0ddce879f32215001461011d3"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/346805","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\/346805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}