beam modeling and weight calculation

[Michele1980]

a greeting to all,

I am using classic ansys; I tried to search in the help, but I couldn't find the command to plot the weight of a structure shaped with beam elements.
I can have the properties of the sections, but not the total mass.

Can you help me? If you can't pull out the mass, I would be useful at least the volume.

thanks in advance

 

[padapupps]

a greeting to all,

I am using classic ansys; I tried to search in the help, but I couldn't find the command to plot the weight of a structure shaped with beam elements.
I can have the properties of the sections, but not the total mass.

Can you help me? If you can't pull out the mass, I would be useful at least the volume.

thanks in advance

Hello Michael 1980,
Have you tried with lsum?

 

[Michele1980]

for the moment I solve doing a static structural and giving the acceleration of gravity. I don't know him, can you please tell me how to do it?

 

[padapupps]

the vsum, asum and lsum commands allow you to calculate the mechanical parameters of the volume, area and selected line. if these entities are also associated with a density then they give you the mass parameters of such entity (mass, moments of inertia, the center of gravity).

to do this does not need to put gravity.

when you put gravity and calculate static deformation and mass parameters do not depend on this.

the procedure is then to select the geometric entity, in your case the line that is meshata with beam and give the lsum command.