THERMAL STRESS ANALYSIS OF CYLINDER

Ex No: 06 Date:

AIM:

To find the thermal stress and heat transfer analysis of cylinder using ANSYS Software.

PROBLEM DESCRIPTTON:

A Pipe carrying hot fluid with 200 mm internal diameter and 100 mm thickness is covered with
a layer of insulation of 80 mm thick. Thermal Conductivities of pipe and insulation are 40 W/mK
and 0.75 W/mK respectively. The outside heat transfer co- efficient is 50W/m2K. If the
temperature of inner surface of pipe is 573 K and the ambient temperature is 298 K. Find the
thermal and heat transfer analysis of the pipe.

PROCEDURE

1. Preference – Thermal - h-Method - Ok.

2. Preprocessor - Element type - Add/Edit/Delete - Add – Thermal Mass – Solid –
Brick 8 node 278 (Solid278) - Ok
3. Material props - Material Models – Material – Thermal- Conductivity - Isotropic
– KXX= 40 – Ok
4. Material props - Material Models – Material –New Material Model –Define
Material ID - 2- Ok, Material Model No.2 -Thermal- Conductivity - Isotropic –
KXX=0.75 – Ok
5. Modeling – Create- Areas – Circle –Annulus – Rad-1 – 0.1, Rad-2 – 0.2 –
Ok
6. Modeling – Create- Areas – Circle –Annulus – Rad-1 – 0.2, Rad-2 – 0.28 –
Ok
7. Modeling –Operate- Extrude-Areas-Along Normal-Area to be extruded –Enter
1 and length of extrusion as 1 m.
8. Modeling –Operate- Extrude-Areas-Along Normal-Area to be extruded –Enter
2 and length of extrusion as 1 m.
9. Modeling – Operate- Booleans – Glue - Volumes - Pick All – Ok.
10. Meshing-Mesh Attributes- Picked Volumes- Pick Volume 1- Assign Material
1-Ok
11. Meshing-Mesh Attributes- Picked Volumes- Pick Volume 2- Assign Material 2-
Ok.
12. Meshing-Mesh Tool- Smart Size 4- Mesh- Pick All – Ok.
13. Plot – Lines- Plot – Areas – Ok.
14. Plotctrls – Numbering- Click Line and Area Numbering – Ok.
15. Solution – Apply Loads- Apply- Thermal-Temperature- On Areas- Pick Inner
 Circle by selecting four quadrants of circle –DOF to be constrained – TEMP -
573 – Ok.
16. Solution – Apply Loads- Apply- Thermal-Convection- On Areas- Pick Outer
Circle by selecting four quadrants of circle – Enter film co-efficient and Value
as 50 and 298 K – Ok.
17. Have a Isometric View and deselect numbering.
18. Solution- Solve –Current LS- Ok.
19. General Postproc – Plot Results - Contour Plot – Nodal Solution- Thermal
Gradient- X Component of thermal gradient – Ok.
20. Plotctrls – Write Metafile – Invert White/Black- Save it in desired location.
21. Exit.
RESULT
Thus the thermal stress analysis of the given cylinder is found out by using the
ANSYS Software.