ANSYS fibre volume fraction

[abigailkylim]

Hi, all.

Would appreciate some advice on a 2D plain weave model I've generated from Texgen. I managed to export the .stl file into ANSYS R2 2020 as a static structural model, but of course it's missing the fibre volume fraction information. How do I make sure the ANSYS model is the fibre volume fraction I'd need? Read somewhere it's possible to generate a separate voxel mesh and mesh it into ANSYS but it doesn't seem to work for me as well...

Best regards,
Abigail Lim

[louisepb]

Hi Abigail,

I'm not an ANSYS user I'm afraid but I believe that you should be able to import an ABAQUS input file into ANSYS. There is information about how to do this for ANSYS/CFX here http://texgen.sourceforge.net/workshop/ ... alysis.pdf
I don't know if this would import the associated .eld file with the volume fractions. If not, if you have successfully imported the mesh from the .inp file then there may be some way of using the data in the .eld file to populate the volume fraction data in ANSYS - the data in the file would correlate to the elements created.

If a mesh is created externally then, given the centre points of the elements created the TexGen model can then be interrogated to obtain the volume fraction data for those points.

Sorry not to be able to give more concrete help but I hope that gives you some pointers.
Kind regards,
Louise

[abigailkylim]

Dear Dr Louise,

Thank you for your response. Am trying things out with Abaqus currently, but will keep your advice in mind!
Thank you for your time.

Regards,
Abigail