This training course is intended for ANSYS Workbench users who want access to functionality not directly available
from the graphic interface. Examples of such features include:

- Advanced material models such as composites, creep, Chaboche or Drucker-Prager
- Importing data files from 3rd party programs and applying as loads or boundary conditions
- Performing analysis types such as rotor dynamics, acoustics and piezoelectrics
- Using surface-to-surface radiation in thermal analysis
- J integrals for fracture mechanics
- Superelements
- Restarting an analysis
- Performing various algebraic operations on a chosen subset of results
- Postprocessing result types not accessible from the menus

During the course, you will learn the basics of the ANSYS Mechanical APDL
interface and the ANSYS APDL scripting language. Topics include:

* Exporting a model from ANSYS Workbench to ANSYS APDL
* The ANSYS APDL interface
* Components and selection methods
* Preprocessing: Materials, elements and other properties
* Postprocessing
* Parameters, macros and the scripting language
* Using APDL scripts inside ANSYS Mechanical