Graphical User Interface (GUI) Application to Perform Stability Analysis in ANSYS

Resumo

There is few commercial software, based on finite element method, that are able to perform buckling
analysis. One of the most popular commercial software based on FEM that can perform this kind of analysis is the
ANSYS, and is considerably complex. Due to a big range of possibilities and resources that the program offer,
sometimes the interest in some specific analysis, like stability, can be hard to perform because of the difficulty in
the input data. Also, sometimes it is necessary to run a set of analysis with several profile dimension, so this task
can be extremely difficult with a not friendly GUI of drawing. Then, the aim of this work is to give a GUI
application that offer to the users an easy and friendly way to run buckling analysis in profiles using ANSYS. The

application was developed using Python Language and the framework Electron and can perform linear and non-
linear analysis. Moreover, was carefully developed to be easy to use to facilitate access and speed up numerical

analysis of buckling for researchers and interested people. At the end, are presented the application use in a set of
analysis of flexural stability of pultruded glass fiber reinforced polymer I-sections.