Week 2 Exercise

23 fevereiro 2026, 10:37 • Baiqiao Chen

Exercise on ANSYS M-APDL modelling, meshing and macros
You are requested to create an FE model of a stiffened panel with four stiffeners, as shown in the attached 3000.jpg, with the following information:
E=205.8 GPa,  λ=0.3, σy=315 MPa, 
frame spacing along longitudinal direction 4300 mm, spacing between two stiffeners 815 mm, 
plate thickness 17.8 mm, web
height 463 mm, web thickness 8 mm, breadth of flange 172 mm, flange thickness 17 mm.  
The student can choose one Shell element type, and an element size based on his/her preference.

Suggested steps:
1 Geometric model
2 definition of element type and material properties
3 Glue all entities, property attributes, element size definition, meshing

Deliverables:
1 filename.db, as an ANSYS model
2 filename.mac, as the APDL macro/script