Hello to all the research scholars. Sir, I am a Phd student in computational fracture mechanics. Right now i am stuck with a problem where i am not able analyze SIF (K1, K2, K3) for a 3D crack in ansys. Ansys asks the path for K value and i am choosing 5 nodes along the 2 crack edges for a full crack model and I also went for both global coordinate system and local coordinate system for finding K. Finally when i went to nodal calc and SIF then it is giving only plane stress and plane strain conditions with full or half crack models. But I am not able to get SIF on the crack front as i am not choosing the path along the crack front. It is only giving SIF at the crack tip considering only the area. Am i not correct or does ansys has limitations on this. Please guide me in this.
Best regards
Kirthan.L.J
SIF for 3D crack
Dear all
I am also facing same problem, to simulate crack growth in 3D model in ANSYS.
If any one has any suggestions or tutorial please send me at following id:-
himanshu [at] iitp.ac.in
hpiitp [at] gmail.com
thanx for your reply.
I think that ansys does not
I think that ansys does not calculate SIF in 3D automatically
sif for 3d crack
i am doing my me project in fracture mechanics can any body help me how to model 3d crack
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