/COM,ANSYS MEDIA REL. 11.0 (10/27/2006) REF. VERIF. MANUAL: REL. 11.

0
/VERIFY,vme5
/TITLE,VME5, Pinned Bar Under Gravity Loading
/com, Ref: Maclean and Nelson, page 336

/PREP7 ! ENTER PREPROCESSOR

*AFUN,DEG ! SET MODE TO DEGREE
N,1,0.25*COS(120),0.25*SIN(120) ! DEFINE NODES
N,8,0,0,0
FILL,1,8
N,29,0.75*COS(-60),0.75*SIN(-60)
FILL,8,29
N,30,1
ET,1,161 ! SET ELEMENT TYPE TO EXPLICIT BEAM
R,1,5/6,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1 ! REAL CONSTANT SET
E,1,2,30 ! DEFINE ELEMENTS
*REPEAT,28,1,1,0
MP,EX,1,10E6 ! DEFINE YOUNG'S MODULUS
MP,DENS,1,1.0 ! DEFINE DENSITY
MP,NUXY,1,0.3 ! DEFINE POISSON'S RATIO
D,8,UX ! CONSTRAIN PIVOT ALONG
D,8,UY ! UX AND UY
D,ALL,UZ ! CONTSRAIN ALL NODES ALONG UZ
NSEL,S,NODE,,8
NSEL,A,NODE,,30
NSEL,INVE
CM,GNODES,NODE ! CREATE NODAL COMPONENT
ALLSEL
FINISH
/CONFIG,nres,1005 ! To avoid error message of number of
result
/SOLUTION ! ENTER SOLUTION
EDRST,100 ! SPECIFY OUTPUT INTERVAL
EDHTIME,100 ! SPECIFY TIME-HISTORY OUTPUT INTERVAL
NSEL,S,NODE,,29 ! SELECT THE NODE AT THE END OF THE
BEAM
CM,NODE29,NODE ! CREATE NODAL COMPONENT
ALLSEL
EDHIST,NODE29 ! SPECIFY TIME-HISTORY OUTPUT FOR NODE
29
EDCTS,,0.4 ! DEFINE SCALE FATOR FOR COMPUTED TIME
STEP
*DIM,T,ARRAY,2 ! DEFINE TIME ARRAY
*DIM,G,ARRAY,2 ! DEFINE GRAVITY ARRAY
T(1)=0,0.5 ! INITIALIZE THE TIME ARRAY
G(1)=9.8,9.8 ! INITIALIZE THE GRAVITY ARRAY
EDLOAD,ADD,ACLY,,GNODES,T,G ! SPECIFY THE LOAD
TIME,0.5 ! SPECIFY THE SOLUTION TIME
/COM &COMPARE,NOCOMPARE
SOLVE ! SOLVE THE PROBLEM
/COM &COMPARE,NORMAL
FINISH
/POST26 ! ENTER TIME-HISTORY POSTPROCESSOR
FILE,vme5,his ! READ THE HISTORY FILE
NSOL,2,29,U,X ! DEFINE VARIABLE 2 AS UX AT NODE 29
DERIV,3,2,1,,VX ! DEFINE VARIABLE 3 AS VELOCITY AT NODE
29
NSOL,4,29,U,Y ! DEFINE VARIABLE 4 AS UY AT NODE 29
EXTREM,3,4
*GET,TEMP1,VARI,3,EXTREM,VMIN, ,
RES1 = ABS(TEMP1/0.75)
*DIM,RES,,1,3
*VFILL,RES(1,1),DATA,2.121
*VFILL,RES(1,2),DATA,ABS(RES1)
*VFILL,RES(1,3),DATA,ABS(RES(1,2)/RES(1,1))
/COM,
/OUT,vme5,vrt
/COM,-------------------- VME5 DYNA RESULTS COMPARISION --------------------
/COM,
/COM, TARGET | ANSYS | RATIO
/COM,
/COM, |w| THTA = 0 deg
/COM,
*VWRITE,RES(1,1),RES(1,2),RES(1,3)
(' ',' ',F5.3,' ',F5.3,' ',F5.3)
/COM,
/COM,-----------------------------------------------------------------------
/OUT
*LIST,vme5,vrt
FINISH