{"id":45838,"date":"2020-07-06T09:15:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T09:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/transversely-isotropic-material-orthotopic-material-behavior-in-ansys-workbench\/"},"modified":"2020-07-06T09:15:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T09:15:14","slug":"transversely-isotropic-material-orthotopic-material-behavior-in-ansys-workbench","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/transversely-isotropic-material-orthotopic-material-behavior-in-ansys-workbench\/","title":{"rendered":"Transversely isotropic material\/ Orthotopic material behavior in ANSYS Workbench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Hello everyone,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I use ANSYS Workbench for my master thesis and I am a beginner in using ANSYS.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I want to optimize a part for additive manufacturing. For the part an aluminium alloy (AlSi10Mg) should be used. The part will have an approximately transversal isotropic material behaviour due to the additive manufacturing process.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Is it possible to create such a material behavior in ANSYS Workbench for the analysis with a static structural analysis system?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">If so, is it possible to define any direction for the preferred direction of the transversely isotropic material of the part? Due to the later part orientation in the build space of the 3D printer it is possible that the construction direction of the part does not correspond to one of the axes of the global coordinate system of the part and therefore the material coordinate system would differ from the global coordinate system of the part.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">If it is not possible to generate transversely isotropic material behavior in ANSYS Workbench for the analysis with a static structural analysis system, an orthotropic material behavior would&nbsp;also be acceptable.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">If the orientation of the part has to be changed for the printing process and the axes of the global coordinate system of the part do not match the orthotropy axes of the material, is it possible to define a material coordinate system for orthotropic material that is parallel to the orthotropy axes?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I would be very grateful for your help in this matter.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Many thanks in advance!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Best regards<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; overflow-x: hidden; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Martin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-45838","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["18020"],"_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"],"_btv_view_count":["2172"],"_bbp_subscription":["252089","45198","58821"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["45838"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["79","200","45198","58821","177954"],"_bbp_voice_count":["5"],"_bbp_reply_count":["7"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["319066"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["319066"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-11-22 16:14:24"]},"test":"profproton"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/45838","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\/45838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}