Interface to Ansys - support issues

This page gives information on the interface to Ansys that may help in running jobs and improving the performance you obtain with this interface. Some key items that you may have missed in the user manual are also included.

Which versions of Ansys is Zencrack interfaced to?

Zencrack is interfaced to Ansys/Classic. Testing has been conducted up to and including Ansys 12.1.

Calculating j-integrals with Ansys

The Ansys j-integral capability was added via the CINT option in Ansys 11.0. Interfacing to this capability is available from Zencrack version 7.5 and requires the service pack release Ansys 11.0SP1 (or later).

The Ansys uncracked mesh required for input to Zencrack

The Ansys uncracked mesh file required by Zencrack is a series of Ansys commands to build the model. A command log file is created during an interactive Ansys session which can be used for this purpose. In an interactive session the command file is created by default with a .log extension. The command file is referred to as the batch file in the Zencrack manual.

Please refer to the Ansys documentation for more information. In particular, the following sections of the Ansys 10 documentation may be helpful:

• Operations Guide - Chapter 2. The ANSYS Environment
  2.5. Communicating With the ANSYS Program
• Operations Guide - Chapter 8. Using the ANSYS Session and Command Logs

Crack-block restrictions

Some crack-blocks contain collapsed elements that cannot be handled by Ansys. Therefore these crack-blocks cannot be used in the Ansys interface. The following table identifies these crack-blocks: