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Subject: Re: How to mesh --- Please help!
Author: Clement Tham
Date: 1998-12-21 20:52:00

To All Ansys Gurus,

Thanks for the advice. The tips are very useful indeed. Now, I can mesh the
hollow cylinder (a column actually) without any problem. I just increase
the global element size. That will do the tricks.

Also, sorry for not including my affliation.

Rgds,
Clement Tham
Researcher
Mechanical Engineering Dept.
University of Malaya,
Malaysia

At 02:49 PM 12/18/98 -0500, Dan Bohlen wrote:
>From: Dan Bohlen

>You might want to consider meshing and area and extruding out bricks
>(stif 45's)

>List request: I think it would be nice if folks would list their
>affliation (company, university, etc. ) when posting.

>Tham wrote:

>> From: Tham

>> Hi,

>> Im trying to mesh a hollow cylinder , with the outer radius is 203 mm and
>> thickness 7.1 mm, the length of the column is 4010 mm. I managed to model
>> the column using Ansys build-in modelling tools (hollow cylinder), but when
>> I tried to mesh it (after selecting the solid92 element and entering the
>> material properties), it hangs most of the time. Then, I try to set the
>> mesh to coarser (Im using smart meshing tool), and finally Ansys managed to
>> mesh the cylinder but with huge number of elements and nodes! (more than
>> 100,000).

>> So, the question is what should i do to reduce the elemnet size? I tried to
>> set the element size coarser by using the global size but still can't mesh
>> it properly.

>> Thanks in advance.

>> Rgds,
>> Clement Tham

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