April 22, 2021 at 6:47 pm
Ram Gopisetti
Ansys Employee

Hi @Puhan , As you specified Rock as material which is brittle in nature, you first need to model the material using any of the following law , Look into literature first and gather the requried models and their values. (compression strenghts are very important )

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And answering to your question, yes we can apply pressures which can be controlled via step loading and this step can be last for 1 sec to your specified time. I hope you should take advantage of Structures Engineering Courses available for free of cost in the following link

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While you research, check this white paper on the modelling the rock via FEA

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comment down your response, cheers Ram