Using ANSYS, perform a stress analysis on the flanged pipe, which is made of ductile cast iron.
Budget: €8 – €30 EUR
Carry out a FE mesh convergence study. Justify and explain your model setup, the adopted FE discretisation for this problem, and discuss your numerical predictions.For simplicity you could ignore in your model setup either the holes (used to fix the pipe with the bolts) in the flanges, or the flanges entirely.