Part 1: Creating a Beam in ANSYS

The video presents some very basic steps that need to be followed to create a healthy beam in ANSYS.

Part 2: How to Take Measurements of Healthy Beam

Once you have created a healthy beam, follow the step in order to collect important measurements. Here, we are going to find out bending in Y direction.

Part 3: How to Introduce DELAMINATION in a beam

The video is highlighting steps for introduce delamination in any beam. In this video I could not write comments due to time constraint, however will try to update the video soon.

Please see Part 4 for helpful comments.

Part 4: How to Introduce a CRACK in a beam

The video shows the basic steps of modeling of a cracked beam in ANSYS. Two cracks are created here at x= 0.095 and 0.27. Both the created cracks are 5% of height of the beam (05% of 0.02 = 0.001). Dimensions of beam are: X=0 to 0.5 Y=0 to 0.02 Z=0 to 0.05 The dimensions of the cracks are: X=0.095 and 0.27 Y=0 to 0.001 Z=0.01 to 0.04.

Part 4.2: How to visualize the created crack in a beam

This is part of the video (part 4) "How to model cracked beam in ANSYS". The video highlights, how could we visualize the created crack. The crack appears in bottom of the bean only which can be seen easily.

How to arrange and plot the measured data using Excel and Matlab

The video is extension of previous video "Healthy Beam in ANSYS - Part 2 (How to Take Measurements of Healthy Beam in ANSYS) ". The video presents how could we arrange and plot results (bending modes) that had been measured/calculated previously using ANSYS. In first using excel, the data have been arranged and after that plotted using Matlab.