info@ingeciber.com CivilFEM® APPs for ANSYS® Workbench™ • CivilFEM® APPs for ANSYS® Workbench™. • Target application: Mechanical. • Description: These Application will allow the user to check and design their ANSYS® Workbench™ models using different international construction standards for beams and shells, both Steel and Reinforced Concrete. The version of the App and the supported versions of ANSYS are the ones indicated on the App Store. Overview Binary App Installation (1) Installing from the ACT Start Page: 1. From the project page, select the “ACT Start Page” option 2. Click on “Extension Manager” 3. Press “+” symbol in the top right corner 4. It will open a file dialog to select the appropriate “*.wbex” binary file 5. The extension is installed Loading the extension: 1. From the Extension Manager, click on your extension and choose ‘Load Extension’ 2. The extension is loaded Notes: • The extension to be installed will be stored in the following location: %AppData%\Ansys\[version]\ACT\extensions • The installation will create a folder in this location, in addition to the .wbex file • Example for [version]: v180 Binary App Installation (2) Installing from the Extensions menu: 1. From the Extensions menu, select the “Install Extension…” option 2. It will open a file dialog to select the appropriate “*.wbex” binary file 3. Click “Open” to install the extension Loading the extension: 1. From the Extension Manager, click on your extension and choose ‘Load Extension’ 2. The extension is loaded Notes: • The extension to be installed will be stored in the following location: %AppData%\Ansys\[version]\ACT\extensions • The installation will create a folder in this location, in addition to the .wbex file Binary App Installation (3) Define additional folders in which ACT will search for extensions in order to expose them in the Extension Manager 1 2 3 Notes: • During the scan of the available extensions, the folders will be analyzed according to the following order: 1. The application data folder(e.g. %AppData%\Ansys\[version]\ACT\extensions) 2. The additional folders defined in the “Additional Extension Folders” property 3. The installation folder 4. The “extensions” folder part of the current Workbench project (if the project was previously saved with the extension) • If an extension is available in more than one of these locations, the 1st one according to the scan order is used • Once the binary extension is installed at default location, one can move the *.wbex and the folder to any other location – Default path: %AppData%\Ansys\[version]\ACT\extensions – New path: Any location on your machine, shared drive etc. • All users interested in using the extension need to include that path in their Workbench Options 1. In the “Tools” menu, select the “Options…” 2. Select “Extensions” in the pop up panel 3. Add the path under “Additional Extensions Folder …” Workbench™ Project Schematic Introduction to CivilFEM® Apps for ANSYS® Workbench™ - Material definition. - Structural element creation and assignment. - Check/Design definition. CivilFEM® Checking process Introduction to CivilFEM® Apps for ANSYS® Workbench™ - CivilFEM® provides a complete material library sorted by standard. Structural steel, reinforcement steel and reinforced concrete are included. - The material created with CivilFEM® is used in the checking process only. - Materials can be reviewed and changed under their property window. Material definition Introduction to CivilFEM® Apps for ANSYS® Workbench™ - CivilFEM® uses the section or thickness defined under Geometry. CivilFEM® interprets this data to create the structural element to be checked. The user can review the cross section and its properties. For concrete check by code of beams and shells, the reinforcement is defined using the structural element property window. Structural element creation and assignment Introduction to CivilFEM® Apps for ANSYS® Workbench™ - CivilFEM® needs other mechanical results as data sets. Those can be set with the context menu command “Fill with load cases”: Data sets definition Introduction to CivilFEM® Apps for ANSYS® Workbench™ - The “Modify…” context menu from “Combination” allows to configure the combination of data sets before checking. For further information on how to set combinations see the theory manual. Combinations definition Introduction to CivilFEM® Apps for ANSYS® Workbench™ - CivilFEM® provides check/design options for steel and concrete beams and also for concrete shells. - A check/design object is easily created. Then the user just needs to choose the particular check and result to get and reevaluate the result. Check/Design definition Introduction to CivilFEM® Apps for ANSYS® Workbench™ References • For tutorials, recorded webinars and howto & tips videos, please visit our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/CivilFEM • For more information, please visit www.civilfem.com or email us: info@ingeciber.com Thank you • info@ingeciber.com • support@civilfem.com