ANSYS

Implicit impact analysis of a vehicle which by acccident collides with a column that supports the roof of a building.

ANSYS is an industry-leading FEM-based software tool developed by ANSYS Inc. for performing engineering simulations in a wide range of application areas. Pre-processing, solving and post processing can be done within a single integrated environment. Simulation capabilities include solid, shell and beam models, linear and nonlinear structural analysis, heat conduction, electromagnetism, acoustics, and different types of coupled analysis.

Benefits

ANSYS provides solutions for engineering simulations which allow us to predict how alternative product designs will behave in manufacturing and real-world environments. The ANSYS product family contains an industry-leading, comprehensive set of tools for all steps in the design process, including geometry import, different algorithms for meshing, and several different solvers. All ANSYS products come with ANSYS Workbench platform which has a state-of-the-art, easy-to-use interface and bidirectional associatively with major CAD systems. It features automatic contact detection and robust meshing of complex parts and large assemblies. It allows the direct import of CAD models and makes simulation an integrated part of product development.

• increase performance or life time
• increase quality
• predict total lifetime and service periods
• decrease manufacturing costs
• optimize material utilization
• understand failure mechanisms
• decrease the total number of physical prototypes

Depending on the simulation needs, the user can choose between a number of different levels of analysis functionality. The top-of-the-line product ANSYS Multiphysics contains the full range of simulation features. Other products, like ANSYS Mechanical and ANSYS Structural are subsets of ANSYS Multiphysics.

Functionality

• General
  -Robust CAD import
  -Wide range of meshing tools for solid and shell models
  -Automatic contact detection
  -Direct and interative solvers
  -Parametric simulation
  -ANSYS parametric design language (APDL) for setting up analysis by scripts
• Structural
  -Nonlinear materials (isotropic, anisotropic, plasticity, hyperelasticity, creep)
  -Solid, shell, beam, and spring elements
  -Contact between solids/shells/beams
  -Different linear and nonlinear contact types and algorithms
  -Static analysis
  -Dynamic analysis (modal, harmonic, transient, spectrum)
  -Fatigue
• Fluid Dynamics
  -Advanced coupled multigrid linear solver technology
  -Unmatched meshing flexibility
  -Superb parallel efficiency
  -Excellent pre and post-processing capabilities
• Thermal
  -Static and transient
  -Linear and nonlinear materials
  -Convection, radiation
• Electromagnetics
  -Circuit coupling
  -Low frequency: Electrostatics, current conduction, magnetostatics, eddy current
  -High frequency: Frequency domain, modal, closed and open domain
• Coupled physics
  -Load transfer between physics (e.g. thermal expansion, resistive heating, electric/magnetic forces)
  -Iterative coupling between separate physical models using the Multifield Solver technique [TM]
  -Piezoelectricity, piezoresistivity, thermoelectricity, thermoelasticity

Family of products

• Simulation functionality
  -ANSYS DesignSpace (linear structural and thermal analysis)
  -ANSYS Professional (structural and thermal analysis, limited nonlinear functionality)
  -ANSYS Structural (structural analysis, full nonlinear functionality)
  -ANSYS CFX, ANSYS Fluent (computational fluid dynamics)
  -ANSYS Mechanical (structural and thermal analysis, full nonlinear functionality)
  -ANSYS Emag (low frequency electric and magnetic analysis)
  -ANSYS Multiphysics (structural, thermal, low and high frequency electromagnetism)
   
• Add-on modules
  -DesignModeler (CAD-like parametric geometry modeling module
   for the analyst)
  -DesignXplorer (parametric studies)
  -Fatigue Module (fatigue analysis)

Miscellaneous

Workbench Platform 2.0

ANSYS Capability chart


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