Page 157 - Finite Element Analysis with ANSYS Workbench

148 Chapter 8 Failure Analysis

bottle has to support hydrostatic pressure of the liquid detergent
3
with the density of 10  6 Kg mm . We will employ ANSYS
through its Workbench to analyze the possibility of buckling when
the bottle thickness is 0.5 mm.

Using the imported CAD file of the bottle, we begin by
discretizing the model into a number of small plate elements with
their element sizes of approximately 5 mm. The generated finite
element mesh consists mostly of the quadrilateral elements with
few triangular elements. The mesh contains a total of 4,385
elements and 4,193 nodes. Users may change the element sizes, if
preferred, by downloading the ANSYS files from the book website.