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Subject: Re: marine structur
Author: Peter Attar
Date: 2001-01-30 15:06:00On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Ramon Rodicio Rodriguez wrote:
> I'm a student from the Vigo University,Spain, getting started with Ansys
> I'm using Ansys to simulate the behaviour of a floating marine structure
> but I don't know how to simulate the action of the ocean waves upon the
> structure.
> The structure, more or less, is like a rectangule floating. The efects of
> ocean vawes are like vertical forces upon the nodes, but these forces vary
> like sines, can I define a force following a trigonometric function with
> Ansys?
> Sorry about my poor English, I will appreciate any help.
> Ramon Rodicio
> Vigo University
> Spain
This is somewhat complicated problem.Have you been told to
simplify it to a purely structural problem?
Peter Attar
Graduate Student
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Duke University