ANSYS Structural FEA

March 2011
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 The Days Agenda

AGENDA
10:00 – 10:30 Registration & Coffee

10:30 – 10:45 Intro to Seminar & ANSYS

Structural Mechanics Analysis using ANSYS Workbench

o Overview of Workbench for Structural Analysis
o CAD Connectivity
o Geometry Pre-Processing
o Meshing
10:45 – 11:45
o Materials Support
o Boundary Condition Setup
o Analysis Types
o Post Processing
o Optimisation

11:45 – 12:15 Coffee Break

ANSYS FEA & Composites
12:15 – 13:15
Guest Speaker from Even
13:15 – 13:30 Q&A Sessions.
13:30 – 14.30 Lunch & Finish

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 Agenda

• Overview of Workbench for Structural Analysis

• CAD Connectivity
• Geometry Pre-Processing
• Meshing
• Materials Support
• Boundary Condition Setup
• Analysis Types
• Post Processing
• Optimisation

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 ANSYS Workbench

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 ANSYS Workbench

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 ANSYS Workbench

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 ANSYS Workbench

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 ANSYS Workbench

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 ANSYS Mechanical
Analysis steps

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 ANSYS Structural Mechanics

• Geometry
– Direct CAD Links
• Connect to real CAD models
and create true parametric
analysis
– Create analysis geometry
• Geometry clean-up
• Simplification
• Create Shell & Beam
geometry
– Work with imported files
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 ANSYS Structural Mechanics

• Preprocessing
• Materials
• Linear-Elastic
• Plastic
• Hyper-elastic
• Creep
• Soils, Concrete
• Damage models
• Meshing
• From fully automatic to highly controlled
• Loads
• Imported data fields
• Time dependant
• Complex systems
• Contact
• Model real assemblies
• Bonded, Frictionless & Frictional contact

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 ANSYS Structural Mechanics

• Solving
• ANSYS solver technology
evolving to keep pace
with PC developments
• Multi-core
• 32 & 64 bit
• Clusters
• GPU

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 ANSYS Structural Mechanics

• Postprocessing
• Stress, Strain, Creep,
Contact, Reactions
• Linearisation
• Images
• Tabular data
Excel
• Movie files
• Automated report
generation

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 ANSYS Structural Mechanics

• ANSYS Structural analysis

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 Example workflow

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 Linked analysis

CFD

Stress

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 ANSYS Geometry and
CAD options

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 Direct geometry
Bi-Directional interfaces
geometry interfaces

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 Direct geometry
Bi-Directional interfaces
geometry interfaces

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 Geometry editing tools

• Turning CAD geometry into analysis geometry.

• Remove small features
• Add parameters

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 Mid-surfacing

• ANSYS ACP works on

shell (surface) geometry.
• DesignModeler & Space
Claim both have tools for
turning “thick/solid”
geometry into surface
geometry.

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 ANSYS Contact

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 Connections

• Automatic contact detection

• Contact/Spot welds to define interaction
• Number of contact definitions/formulations
available
• Contacts can be grouped

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 Contact types

• Realistic behaviour only possible with

advanced contact.
• Optimised settings for each contact option
• Range of formulations
• Contact types
– Bonded
– No Separation
– Frictionless
– Rough
– Frictional
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 Connections

• Mesh connections
– Connect shell geometry up
at a mesh level

• Pre and post contact tool

– Plot pressures
– Contact status

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 ANSYS Pre-
Pre-processing

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 Boundary conditions

• Extensive list of constraints and loads within

the toolbar
• Ability to apply loadings from CFD
• Ability to import loadings
from text file
• Persistent application

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 Analysis types

• Static Structural
• Modal
• Harmonic
• Buckling
• Random Vibration
• Response Spectrum
• Transient Structural
• Thermal
• Transient Thermal

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 ANSYS – Structural Mechanics

• The tools in Workbench

are geared to allow
engineers to carry out
ENGINEERING
• Complex tasks made
intuitive

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 ANSYS Meshing

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 Meshing options

• ANSYS Meshing has options from fully

automatic to highly controlled.

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 ANSYS Core
technology

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 ANSYS Technology

• Elements
– Range of elements for solids
• Tets, pyramids & hex
• Coupled physics
• Low and high order
– Shell elements
• Low and high order
• Layered options

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 ANSYS Technology

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 ANSYS Technology

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 ANSYS Technology

Solver technology
• Solvers work with your hardware
– Workstations now ship with multiple cores
– Solvers evolved to make best use of this
– Remote solving options
• Enhanced scalability
– Many enhancements to improve
performance of DPCG and
DSPARSE solvers
• 64bit native code
– Faster solve times
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 GPU Accelerator Feature

• SMP SPARSE and PCG solvers only

• Activated with –acc @ command line
• Supported on Windows/Linux 64-bit
systems
• Currently only available for nVidia Tesla
20-series (1U) cards

• Intel Xeon 5560

(2.8 GHz, 8 cores total)
• 32 GB of RAM
• Windows XP SP2 (64-bit)
• Tesla C2050

Overall Simulation Speedups for R12 Benchmark Set

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 ANSYS Materials

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 Materials

• Accurate materials are an essential

requirement for any analysis
• ANSYS has a wide range available to
engineers.
• User definable material libraries.

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 ANSYS materials continued

• Metallic
– Linear Low deflection, room temperature
– Plasticity Large deflection, permanent deformation
– Temperature effect Thermal loads
– Creep Long timescale effects
– Test data Can be used directly
• Specialist materials
– Hyper-elasticity Rubbers, polymers etc
– Concretes & soils Crushing and brittle failure modes
– Directionally dependant properties

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 Directional dependency

• Products built form certain

materials, have directional
properties.
• By using coordinate systems and
orthotropic properties we can
capture these effects

• Straightforward for cylinders,

plates etc.

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 ANSYS Post Processing

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 Results plots

• Whole assembly
• With mesh
• Scoped results
• Cut planes
• Parametric feedback

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 Results - linearisation

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 Reports

• Automatic reporting
– Captures all CAE data

– HTML
– Word
– PowerPoint

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 ANSYS Optimisation

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 DesignXplorer

• Start with a workbench defined process

– Use parameters in:
• CAD
• DesignModeler
• SpaceClaim
• Engineering data
• Preprocessor
• Postprocessor
• Derived parameters
– Define design envelope
• Parameter limits
• Descrete/continuous
– Define goal
• Near target
• Min/Max
• Trade offs

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 DesignXplorer

• Six Sigma analysis

– Manufacturing tolerances
– Perfect design becomes real
world design

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 Demonstration

• Geometry
• Meshing
• Preprocessing
• Solve
• Post

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 Thank you

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 The Days Agenda

10:00 – 10:30 Registration

10:30 – 10:45 Intro to Seminar & ANSYS
10.45 – 11.45 Structural Mechanics Analysis using ANSYS Workbench
• Overview of Workbench for Structural Analysis
• CAD Connectivity
• Geometry Pre-Processing
• Meshing
• Materials Support
• Boundary Condition Setup
• Analysis Types
• Post Processing
• Optimisation
11.45 – 12.15 Coffee Break
12.15 – 13.15 ANSYS Composite modelling
Presented by Even Evolutionary Engineering AG
13.15 – 13.30 Q & A Sessions
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch & Finish

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