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Tangential Varying Pressure

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Overview
• Name of the app: Tangential Varying Pressure TangentialVaryingPressure
• Target Application: Mechanical
• Description: Creates an object to be able to apply a
spatially varying tangential pressure

• The version of the App and the supported versions of ANSYS

are the ones indicated on the App store (R181, R182 & R190)

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• https://appstore.ansys.com/shop/ACTApps_act%20apps
• Great place to get started
– A library of helpful applications available to any ANSYS customer
– New apps added regularly
– Applications made available in either binary format (.wbex file) or binary plus scripted format
(Python and XML files)
– Scripted extensions are great examples
– Documentation and training materials available on the ANSYS Customer Portal:
https://support.ansys.com/AnsysCustomerPortal/en_us/Downloads/ACT+Resources

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• Please pay attention to paragraph 9 of the CLICKWRAP SOFTWARE

LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR ACS EXTENSIONS regarding TECHNICAL
ENHANCEMENTS AND CUSTOMER SUPPORT (TECS): “TECS is not
included with the Program(s)”

• Report any issue or provide feedback related to this app please

contact:
Loic.Degueldre@o-o-Soft.com
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• Installing from the ACT Start Page:

1. From the project page, select the “ACT Start
Page” option
2. Click on “Extension Manager”
3. Press “+” symbol in the top right corner
4. It will open a file dialog to select the
appropriate “*.wbex” binary file
5. Click “Open” to install the extension
• Loading the extension:
1. From the Extension Manager,
click on your extension and choose
“Load Extension” Notes:
• The extension to be installed will be stored in the following
2. The extension is loaded location: %AppData%\Ansys\[version]\ACT\extensions
• The installation will create a folder in this location, in addition to
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• Example for [version]: v190
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• Installing from the Extensions

menu:
1. From the Extensions menu, select the
“Install Extension…” option
2. It will open a file dialog to select the
appropriate “*.wbex” binary file
3. Click “Open” to install the extension
• Loading the extension:
1. From the Extension Manager,
click on your extension and choose
“Load Extension” Notes:
• The extension to be installed will be stored in the
2. The extension is loaded following location:
%AppData%\Ansys\[version]\ACT\extensions
• The installation will create a folder in this location, 6
in addition to the .wbex file
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• Once the binary extension is installed at default location, one can move the *.wbex and the folder to
any other location
• Default path: %AppData%\Ansys\v19x\ACT\extensions
• New path: Any location on your machine, shared drive etc.

• All users interested in using the extension need to include that path in their Workbench Options
1. In the “Tools” menu, select the “Options…”
2. Select “Extensions” in the pop up panel
3. Add the path under “Additional Extensions Folder …”

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Define additional folders in
which ACT will search for
extensions in order to expose
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Manager

Notes:
• During the scan of the available extensions, the folders will be analyzed according to the following order:
1. The application data folder(e.g. %AppData%\Ansys\v19x\ACT\extensions)
2. The additional folders defined in the “Additional Extension Folders” property
3. The installation folder
4. The “extensions” folder part of the current Workbench project (if the project was previously saved with the extension) 7
• If an extension is available in more than one of these locations, the 1st one according to the scan order is used
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Extension
➢ Why such an extension?
In Mechanical, the standard Pressure load enables the user to add
a pressure that varies along one direction, but not when it is a
tangential pressure!

That’s the reason of creating such a feature with ACT.

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➢ Pre-requisites:
The load will be added only if the analysis is a Structural Static or Transient
Analysis : the button is greyed out if it is a different kind of analysis

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When a Varying Pressure load is created, this
feature requires the following inputs:
➢ Geometry: It needs to be scoped on faces
(or faces Named Selection)
➢ Definition
 Load Step: If the analysis has multiple load steps,
the user can choose the load step at which the
pressure will be applied
 Coordinate System: A cartesian coordinate system
needs to be chosen (by default it is the global one)
 Direction: The direction along which the pressure
will be ramped (selection between X, Y or Z)
 Range: The way it varies. Click on
to add rows and fill them with desired values, then
click on
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➢ When a the geometry is meshed, a
RMB click on the object enables you
to visualize the pressure variation
with the option, even
before solve.
➢ It is recommended to do that for
sanity check
➢ If not done before solve, this will be
the first thing to be done by
Mechanical when clicking on solve.
➢ Values will be updated if Unit
System is changed

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➢ Here is an example of the snippet commands that are generated in the
ds.dat file:

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➢ Important notes:
 Pressure variation: the pressure value is not extrapolated at
positions beyond the ends of the table but held constant:
✓ The pressure remains constant with the pressure value of the
minimum location at positions below the minimum location in the
table
✓ The pressure remains constant with the pressure value of the
maximum location at positions above the maximum location in the
table
 The accuracy of the distributed pressure will depend on the
mesh density used, with a higher mesh density on the faces
affected producing a more accurate representation of
pressure
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with coarser mesh
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➢ Important notes:
 Originally created for applying tangent pressures, it will
work for normal pressures as well. (There is nothing to
prevent the user from not defining a tangential pressure)
As shown in the ds.dat file, the pressure direction is
driven by the given local coordinate system and the
selected axis in the details view.
 For the same reason, pressure will NOT follow the large
deflection/rotation of the model: it will keep its initial
orientation.

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➢ Important notes – Known issues:
 If some changes affect the Reference Coordinate System
after the vizualisation is asked, varying pressure values
for visualization will not be updated accordingly: data
will have to be cleared first under the RMB Clear
Generated Data option. However changes will be taken
into account in the ds.dat file if the analysis has not
been run yet.

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Loïc Degueldre
Loic.Degueldre@o-o-Soft.com

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