You don't need to be a pirate or sale the high seas to enjoy the analysis of a rope wound around a Capstan drum, although it probably doesn't hurt either. Capstan When a flexible tensile member such as rope, belt or chain is wrapped around a drum the tension in this flexible tensile member creates a normal force that is perpendicular to the surface of the drum. This normal force coupled with the friction that exists between the flexible tensile member and the surface of the drum will reduce...

Remote Points are the primary technique that ANSYS uses for attaching a node, nodes or a collection of nodes that are scoped by vertices, edges, faces, elements and named selections to a single node called a pilot node. A remote point utilizes a multipoint constraint (MPC) equations for creating the attachment between the selected nodes and the pilot node. In this article we will be primarily focusing on the Rigid and Deformable behavior of the scoped nodes in the FE-model. Remote Points are...

Today we are going to explore the power of an axisymmetric analysis using ANSYS and a Belleville washer otherwise know as a conical...