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Part Definitions
14.5 Release
ANSYS LS-DYNA
in Mechanical APDL
© 2012 ANSYS, Inc. February 5, 2013 1 Release 14.5
Objectives
• This lecture covers understanding, defining, and using Parts in ANSYS LS-DYNA.
• Topics:
A. What is a Part ?
B. Part Use in ANSYS LS-DYNA
C. Creating, Updating, and Listing Parts
D. Recommended Part Procedures
E. Selecting and Plotting Parts
F. Part Assemblies
G. Part Definitions Workshop
PART 1: BALL
Mat 1: Si3N4 Ceramic
Real 1
Type 1: SOLID164
PART 2: PLATE
Mat 2: Steel
Real 2
Type 2: SOLID164
• The following are some tasks that can incorporate Part IDs:
– Defining or deleting contact (EDCGEN and EDDC commands)
– Defining rigid body loads, constraints, inertia properties, or assemblies (EDLOAD,
EDCRB, EDIPART, and EDASMP commands)
– Reading Time History material data (EDREAD command)
– Applying damping to a portion of the model (EDDAMP command)
Example:
• After the Parts have been created, they are listed to the screen (or output file).
They can also be listed using the EDPART command:
– Preprocessor > LS-DYNA Options > Parts Options > List Parts
• In order to eliminate such a problem, the part list can be Updated (rather than
recreated) to obtain the current Part list.
• Part ID 11 contains 16
elements with the same
MAT – TYPE - REAL
combination that Part 1
has ...
© 2012 ANSYS, Inc. February 5, 2013 10 Release 14.5
… Creating, Updating, & Listing Parts
• User-defined (manually generated) Part IDs will not be overwritten by subsequent
EDPART,CREATE or EDPART,UPDATE commands, even if all of the corresponding
elements are deleted. However, the Part ID can be changed with a subsequent
EDPART,ADD command.
• Part ID 11 elements
re-specified as Part
ID 12 elements.
• Elements from
Part ID 12 now
in Part ID 1
• After any subsequent meshing, update (EDPART, UPDATE) the current Part list
before another Part-related command is issued.
Note: The Part list is updated (or created if it does not yet exist) and
remains permanent upon issuing the SOLVE command. If a command
references a Part ID that is not defined, the solution will be
terminated.