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Subject: Re: Units and Material Lib.
Author: Brent Brower
Date: 1999-01-05 10:46:00

Hello,

I am working on putting together a material library. Millimeters are
our standard units, therefore, all imported models are in mm. For most
cases I can use units for pressure as N/mm^2 (structural analysis only).
This is fine as long as the model doesn't include gravity effects. If
gravity is involved I have to convert everything to base units I.E.:
pressure as [(Kg-mm/s^2) * (1/mm^2)]. This isn't that difficult,
however, I would eventually like to have everyone who uses Ansys at our
facility to use one material database, and it would be nice if the units
in the database could be "pretty". I would like to have pressures
entered as MPa, forces as N, and still have the model geometry be in mm.
Has anyone dealt with this problem before? Any suggestions would be
helpful.

Brent Brower
Diesel Technology Co.
phone: 616.554.6997
Fax: 616.554.5100
Email: brent.brower@p...

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