Fixed Support in ANSYS Mechanical – Illustrated Explanation

Jun 26, 2020

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In this text of Mechanicalland, we will show you how to insert or attach Fixed Supports to bodies in ANSYS Mechanical. Supports are very important variables in mechanical engineering structural problems that we generally use as the define actual physical conditions of parts. Also, we use fixed supports as boundary conditions in finite element analyses. So it is very important to define fixed supports in a good way.

You will learn how to fix a part by using Fixed Support in ANSYS Mechanical from this article.

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How to Insert a Fixed Support in ANSYS Mechanical?

The part is generally come as free(6Dof) to ANSYS Mechanical which means we need to restrict these parts by defining correct boundary conditions as in the physical model of the part. One of the restricting boundary conditions for these parts is Fixed Support. Fixed Support fixes the part from the selected geometrical features such as faces or surfaces. It gives restraint to the part to lower the degrees of freedom of part in ANSYS Mechanical.

Firstly, right-click on the analysis system in Mechanical interface(Static Structural in this example). Hover your cursor on Insert as shown by the red arrow above then click on the Fixed Support from the list as shown by the red box to add a Fixed Support to a part in ANSYS Mechanical.

To add fixed support in ANSYS Mechanical, click on the faces, vertexes, or edges that you want to assign fixed support, then click on Apply to the geometry section as shown by the red arrow above.