/prep7 !

Enter Preprocessor

!Parameters Definitions

E=200e3 !Young's Modulus

nu=0.3 !Poisson's Ratio
p = 5 !N/mm
t = 5 !in mm
FOS = 2 !Factor of Safety

!Material Properties

mp,ex,1,E !Yonug's Modulus

mp,prxy,1,nu !Poisson's Ratio

!Element type

et,1,plane183
keyopt,1,3,0 !Plane Stress

!Geometric Model
!Keypoints
k,1,0,0
k,2,100,0
k,3,400,150
k,4,400,200
k,5,0,200
k,6,120,110 !Circle Centre

!Line Perimeter
l,1,2
l,2,3
l,3,4
l,4,5
l,5,1

!Circle
circle,6,100/2

!Area
al,all

!Loads
sfl,3,pres,-p

!Boundary Conditions
dl,5,,all,0

!Mesh

!Smrtsize,1
!amesh,1
!First the same mesh size was given to all the lines using smrtsize command.
!The resulting mesh was solved and analysed using plesol for equivalent stresses.
!!The highest stress concentration was found to be at the top centre part of the
circular hole on lines 6 and 7 therefore highest mesh size is required at this
location.
!The top part of the structural component also has a rather high stress
cocentration and thus a some detail should be incorporated here aswell.
!On the whole to preserve processing power no need for fine nodes is required since
the above mentioned locations experience the most stress.

/pnum,line,1
lplot

lesize,1,,,5
lesize,2,,,15
lesize,3,,,5
lesize,4,,,40
lesize,5,,,10,2
lesize,6,,,20,0.5
lesize,7,,,20,2
lesize,8,,,20
lesize,9,,,20

amesh,1

/solu
solve

/post1 !Post Processing

pldisp,2 !Show displaced structure

plesol,s,eqv

!Max stress from APDL = 10.2847 MPa

!Max allowable stress = 1/2 * 300 = 150 MPa
!since linearly elastic material, implies linear stress distribution
!y=mx; x = allowable stress = 150, y=max stress from apdl = 10.2847 MPa
!therefore, m = 0.06856
!therefore, load P = 5/0.06856 = 72.924 N/m Ans

!Select Section at support

path,support,2
ppath,1,,0,0
ppath,2,,0,200
pdef,,s,3,noavg
PLPATH,S3

!A path was created to study the section at the support where the structural
component is rigidly connected.
!A Stress of0.783MPa is experienced at the extre bottom part of the section and
decreases to 0.114MPa at 40mm from the bottom.
!The stress remains at 0.114MPa for a few mm till it starts to increase again
gradually.
!After a distance of 100mm, at the centre height of the support, the principle
stresses start to increase drastically, up till reaching the max stresses at the
highest part of the section with stresses amounting to 6.803MPa.