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10.3 Academic Example 191

employ ANSYS to provide roof-like temperature distribution. The
computed nodal temperatures will be transferred to the stress
analysis to determine the plate deformation and thermal stresses. It
is noted that this problem is a classical thermal stress problem for
which the analytical solution and experiment data are available.

Y

95 F

1 '


245 F
X
1.5 '

(a) Starting ANSYS Workbench

 Open the ANSYS Workbench, set the Units menu on the

upper tab to U.S.Customary (lbm,in,s, F,A,lbf,V).
 On the Analysis Systems window, click twice on the
Steady-State Thermal item. A new small box will appear
on the Project Schematic window.
 Retype the name in the lower blue tab as the desired project
name, e.g., Heat Transfer Part, and hit Enter.
 Right click on the Engineering Data tab and select the
Edit… option, the A2: Engineering Data window will
pop-up. Double click on Click here to add a new mate-
rial and type in a new material name, e.g., “Aluminum
Material”, and hit Enter.
 Click at the Isotropic Thermal Conductivity and drag it to
the Property list at the bottom of the window. Enter the
Isotropic Thermal Conductivity value as 137 BTU/(ft^2
hr (F/ft)) and hit Enter, and close this window.