More on Base Excitation Using the Enforced Motion

Method, TRANSIENT Analysis

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Mohamed Senousy

In an earlier bog, I have developed an ACT extension for harmonic base excitation using the enforced motion method EMM. That blog
demonstrated three different techniques of applying base excitation in harmonic analysis, and the EMM using the developed ACT
extension proved to be the most efficient, easy to use, yet the most accurate technique.

Today, I am updating the extension to also account for transient analysis. The extension now supports the application of displacement
and acceleration base excitation in time-history (i.e., transient) analysis. The EMM is supported only in mode-superposition analysis
which would then allow for a faster and less expensive analysis than either the reduced or the full method for many problems.

The time dependent excitation (displacement or acceleration) can either be directly input in a tabular form, or read from a file.

The steps required to perform a harmonic analysis were already posted in the previous blog. Therefore, below are only the steps of
applying time-dependent base excitation in a transient analysis:

Model setup:

EMM is only allowed in Mode-Superposition analysis. A linked Modal-Transient system is to be setup.

 Transient Analy sis Using Linked Modal
Analy sis Sy stem

In the Modal Analysis:

Define a named selection for all support bases in the model. Note that if multiple excitation locations exist for the same model, a unique
named selection has to be assigned for each of the supports.

Create Base:

1. Select a base named selection.

2. Define excitation direction.
3. Give the base a unique integer ID number.
 Base definition in m odal analy sis

In the Transient Analysis branch:

1. Acceleration or displacement base excitation can be added.

2. The loading can be either input in a tabular format or read from a table.
 Excitation application in Mode-Sup Transient analy sis

Remarks on reading data from a file:

1. The file must be in tab-delimited, blank-delimited, or comma-delimited format

2. File/Path name should NOT contain any special characters
3. Only *.txt are allowed
4. Number of sample point has to be entered

The extension is currently available on the ANSYS customer portal, FREE of charge!

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 About Mohamed Senousy
Dr. Senousy is a Technical Services Engineer at ANSYS since 2012. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng) in the
province of Ontario, Canada. His specialty is in the general area of structural linear dynamics. He has an extensive
experience in the area of piezoelectricity where he obtained his doctorate degree in Mechanical engineering from the
University of British Columbia, Canada. Mohamed has several publications in modeling the thermo-electro mechanical
behavior of piezoelectric-fuel injectors.
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11 THOUGHTS ON MORE ON BASE EXCITATION USING THE ENFORCED MOTION METHOD, TRANSIENT ANALYSIS

breymond
on February 6, 2014 at 12:11 pm said:

Great
Mohamed demonstates again the power of ACT for customer specific needs.

Kechroud Riyad
on February 6, 2014 at 12:28 pm said:

Thank your for that ACT. The base excitation by displacement or by acceleration was a little bit missing in Ansys by the best of
my acknoweldge in comparaison with Abaqus

Is there a difference in results when applying transient acceleration or transient displacement in the case where acceleration is
obtained as second derivative of displacement ?
 Mohamed Senousy
on February 14, 2014 at 11:07 am said:

Kechroud,
If your Initial Conditions are the same, you should be able to get the same results.

Wan Noor Azhar Wan Sulaiman

on February 6, 2014 at 8:57 pm said:

Dear Dr. Senousy,

If I would like to do full method of transient analysis, how can I insert the time-history loading at the base?

Thank you,

Wan Noor Azhar Wan Sulaiman

Mohamed Senousy
on February 14, 2014 at 11:21 am said:
 Wan,
You should be able to do that using command snippets.

Edward Carman
on February 7, 2014 at 2:16 am said:

Thanks Mohamed, this is very useful.

Can this method be adapted for use with a pre-stressed modal analyses?

Thanks

Mohamed Senousy
on February 14, 2014 at 11:18 am said:

Edward,
Yes, this should work too.

William
 on February 21, 2014 at 10:53 am said:

Hi Dr. Senousy,

Can we somehow use EMM within NLGEOM? I mean, I know that the NLGEOM cannot be applied while using Mode-
superposition method, however, the utility of EMM is promising if it could carry out structural analyses including large geometric
non-linearity (for example, long suspension bridge under multiple support excitation).

Cheers,
William

Mohamed Senousy
on February 21, 2014 at 4:20 pm said:

Hi William,
Yes, as per my comment above, you can use it pre-stressed modal analysis. In this case you will be using Linear
Perturbation Method which would allow you to have nlgeom, on.

Cheers,

GG
on February 22, 2014 at 5:05 pm said:
Hello Dr. Senousy,

As piezoelectric material analysis on Ansys is relatively new, its been very difficult to find solutions to my problems anywhere
online. I would appreciate if you could take a look.

I have modelled an array of 10 piezo materials at one end of a cantilever. For some reason when following a structural or modal
analysis, the voltages generated amongst the piezos are vastly different. Any idea what might be causing this? The inputs have
been the same for each of the 10 piezo bodies, and they are all aligned at the same distance along the cantilever.

Also, for some reason the harmonic analysis doesnt runwhen it contains a piezo material. Any idea why?

Thank you for your time,

Regards,
Gulu

Mohamed Senousy
on February 24, 2014 at 9:25 am said:

Hello Gulu,
I would suspect this might be due to your material properties and/or polarization direction. However, I would probably
need to see the model to a better debugging. Please feel free to log-in a support request at
https://support.ansys.com/portal/site/AnsysCustomerPortal/en_us
where you will be able to attach additional materials that better explain the issue.

Regards,