Improving Your Structural

Mechanics Simulations with

Release 14.0

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What will Release 14.0 bring you?

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Lets now take a closer look at some topics

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MAPDL/WB Integration
Finite Element Information Access within
ANSYS Mechanical

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Motivation

ANSYS Workbench is
originally a geometry
based tool. Many users
however also need to
control and access the
finite element
information.

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Selections of Nodes

Nodes can be grouped

into named selections
based on selection logic,
using locations or other
characteristics or
manual selections
Box Selection

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Node Picking

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Lasso Selection

Applying Loads and Orientations to Nodes

Nodal orientation
allows users to orient
nodes in an arbitrary
coordinate system.
Direct FE loads and
boundary conditions can
be applied to selections
of nodes.
Nodes oriented in
cylindrical system
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Nodal coordinate system

used for solution

Results on Node Selections

Results with first layer of

quads removed

Results are displayed on

elements for which all
nodes are selected.
Nodes named selections
allow to scope on specific
regions of the mesh or
remove undesired areas.

Results on quads layers only

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Restart and Direct FE Loads

Added after
initial solve
Analysis Settings tabular data:
No restart point is lost

Second Load step

modified for restart

Nodal Forces and Pressures objects can

be added to a restart analysis without
causing the restart points to become
invalid.
Other loads can now be modified
without losing the restart points.

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MAPDL/WB Integration
Linear Dynamics in ANSYS Mechanical

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Workbench and Mechanical enhancements

MSUP Transient
Analysis supported

Modal Superposition Transient

Joint feature can now

be used in Harmonics,
Random vibration
analysis
Reaction Force &
Moment results is now
supported

Reaction Forces in a
Harmonic Analyses

Joints in Harmonic
Analyses
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Physics Coupling
Data Mapping

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Motivation
Exchange files are
frequently used to
transfer quantities from
one simulation to
another.
Efficient mapping of
point cloud data is
required to account for
misalignment, non
matching units or scaling
issues.
New at R14.0
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Increased Accuracy
The smoothness of the
mapped data depends on
the density of the point
cloud.

Triangulation versus Kriging

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Several weighting
options are available to
accommodate various
data quality.

Validating the Mapped Data

Visual tools have

been implemented to
control how well the
data has been
mapped onto the
target structure
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Rotating Machines
Studying Rotordynamics in ANSYS Mechanical

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Motivation

ANSYS Mechanical users

need to be able to quickly
create shaft geometries
as well as analyze
dynamic characteristics
of rotating systems
Industrial fan (Venti Oelde)

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Geometry Creation

Geometries can be
imported from a CAD
system or imported
from a simple text
file definition as used
in preliminary design

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Import/Export of Bearing Characteristics

ANSYS provides an
interface that allows
to import bearing
characteristics from
an external file

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Specific Solver Settings

Rotordynamics
analyses require a
number of advanced
controls:
Damping
Solver choice
Coriolis effect

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Campbell Diagrams

Campbell diagrams
are used to identify
critical speeds of a
rotating shaft for a
given range of shaft
velocities

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Composites
Enhanced Analysis Workflow and Advanced
Failure Models for Composites

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Motivation

Efficient workflows
and in-depth analysis
tools are required to
model and
understand complex
composites structures

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Defining Material Properties

Composites material
require specific
definitions including
orthotropic
properties, as well as
some constants for
failure criteria (TsaiWu, Puck, LaRc03/04)

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Manually Defining Layers on Simple Geometries

Users can define

simple layered
sections for a shell
body as well as define
thicknesses and
angles as parameters

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Defining Layers on Complex Geometries

For complex
geometries, the ANSYS
Composite PrepPost
tool is used and layer
definitions are imported
in the assembly model
in ANSYS Mechanical.

Courtesy of
TU Chemnitz
and GHOST
Bikes GmbH

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Investigating Composites Results

ANSYS Mechanical
supports layerwise
display of results.

ANSYS Composite
PrepPost offers
comprehensive
capabilities for global and
plywise failure analysis.
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Advanced Failure Analysis

2D laminar
composite
Initial crack

Start of damage (layer 1)

Progressed damage (layer 1)

Progressed damage (layer 3)

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Crack growth simulation

based on VCCT is
available to simulate
interfacial delamination.
Progressive damage is
suitable for determining
the ultimate strength of
the composite (last-ply
failure analysis)

Customization
ANSYS Design Assessment

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Motivation
Many of you have
expressed the need for:
Computing and
displaying specific
results
Be able to achieve
more complex User
defined results

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Expanded Result Access

DA + Allow all
Available Results
allows beam results
Modal=No Beam Results

Filtering of potentially invalid combinations can be suppressed to

enable greater user control. This allows the user to access results
not typically available in the base analysis.
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Design Assessment for Advanced User Defined

Results
Design Assessment enable
users to extend user defined
results capabilities with:

Expressions, including

mathematical operators

Coordinate systems, Units

Systems

Integration options
Nodal, Element-Nodal &

Elemental result types

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Thin Structures
Mesh Connections

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Motivation
In order to connect
meshes of different
surface parts so as to
merge nodes at
intersections, users do not
always want or cannot
merge the topologies at
the geometry level.
Mesh based connections
are required.

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Mesh Connections

Mesh connections work

at part level:
As a post mesh
operation
Base part mesh is
stored to allow for quick
changes in connections

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Modal Analyses Shows Proper

Connections of the Various Bodies

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Further Meshing Enhancements

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Virtual Topologies Interactive Editing

Direct access to
operations from
RMB menu

User selects entities then

applies VT operations

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Virtual topologies are

handled more
interactively through
direct graphics
interaction rather than
tree objects.

VT Hard Vertex, Edge and Face Splits

Hard vertices can be

added at any location
on an edge or a face.

Hard vertices can then

be used to create face
splits from virtual
edges.

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Virtual Topologies Applications

Get swept mesh on

non-sweepable
bodies

Improve shell mesh quality

and orthogonality with VT
combinations
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Contact Analysis
Rigid Body Dynamics

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Motivation
Many mechanisms and
assemblies have
components that
operate through
contact.
In order to maintain the
rapid turnaround for
RBD simulations, there
has been a subsequent
focus on improving
speed, accuracy and
reliability of the contact
capability.
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Performance Improvements

Valve: 158 sec elapsed time

(2x speed up)

Piston: 9 sec elapsed

time (7.5x speed up)

Transition and jump

prediction have been greatly
improved

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The applicability,
robustness and
efficiency of the
contact has been
improved for speed
and accuracy
expect a typical 2-5x
speed-up

Contact Analysis
Flexible bodies

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Motivation

While already providing

leading edge
technology, ANSYS
continues to enhance
its ability to robustly
and efficiently solve
complex contact
problems

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Projected Contact
Regular contact

Projection based

Smoother temperature results on a

multilayered structure

Improved pressure results with

surface projection
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The Surface Projection

Based Contact provides
more accurate results
(stresses, pressures,
temperatures) and is
now also available for
bonded MPC contacts

Contact accuracy and robustness

Adjust to touch causes

rigid body motion and
leaves a gap

New contact
stabilization prevents
rigid motion

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Contact stabilization
technique dampens
relative motions
between the contact
and target surfaces
for open contact

Performance
Further benefits from GPU boards

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Motivation
Taking advantage of
the latest hardware
is mandatory to
solve your large
models.

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A combination of
relatively new
technologies
provides a
breakthrough means
to reduce the time
to solution

Distributed ANSYS Supports GPUs

2.1 MDOF,
Nonlinear
Structural
Analysis using
the Distributed
Sparse Solver

GPU Acceleration can now be used with Distributed ANSYS to

combine the speed of GPU technology and the power of
distributed ANSYS
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Speed-up from a single GPU board

Linux cluster : Each node

contains 12 Intel Xeon 5600series cores, 96 GB RAM,
NVIDIA Tesla M2070,
InfiniBand

Solder
balls

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Mold
PCB
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Solder Joint Benchmark 4M DOF, Creep Strain

Analysis

Speed-up from multiple GPU boards

Linux cluster : Each node

contains 12 Intel Xeon 5600series cores, 96 GB RAM,
NVIDIA Tesla M2070,
InfiniBand

Solder
balls

Results Courtesy of MicroConsult Engineering, GmbH

Mold
PCB
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Advanced Modeling
Material Models

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Motivation
ANSYS provides a
comprehensive library
of advanced materials.
Some users however
need even more
advanced models to
include complex
nonlinear phenomena
in their simulations.

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Advanced Materials for Biomechanical

Applications

Anisotropic Hyperelasticity plus

Viscoelasticity for strain rate effects

Hyperelasticity coupled with Pore

Pressure element
Hydrocephalus analysis
Hyperelastic material with porous media

Shape Memory Alloy enhanced with

superelasticity, Memory effect, New
Yield Function, Differentiated Moduli
(Austenite, Martensite)

Holzapfel Model - Capture the

behavior of fiber-reinforced tissue

Stent modeling using shape memory alloys

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Plastic heat generation for coupled problems

Coupled field-elements
for strongly coupled
thermo-mechanical
analysis now accounts
for plasticity induced
heat generation along
with friction effects
Friction Stir Welding including heat generation due to
friction and plastic deformation
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Advanced Modeling
Advanced Methods

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Motivation
The solver techniques
available from our
solutions allow to
model complex
phenomena.
In some cases, better or
different techniques are
required to improve the
accuracy or the
convergence of the
models.
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Advanced Nonlinear Methods

Buckling of a pre-stressed
stiffened container

Hot-Rolling Structural Steel

Analysis with 3-D Rezoning

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User can now perform:

Buckling from a
nonlinear prestressed
state, including dead
loads
3D rezoning for very
large deformations for a
wider range of materials
and boundary
conditions.

Analyzing Fasteners under Large Deformations

Bolt pretension does not
include large rotation
effects.

Pre-tension element - Significant

bending stress with large rotation

Joint Element - Stress appears

without significant bending
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With release 14.0, you

can now use Joint Loads:
Lock joint at specific
load step
Apply Pre-Tension or
Pre-Torque load
use iterative PCG
solver for faster runtime

Coupled structures/acoustics simulations

Coupled problems are
modeled more
efficiently:
Quadratic tetrahedral
acoustics elements
New acoustics
sources
Absorbing areas
Enhanced PML
formulation
Near and far-field
parameters
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Moisture Diffusion
Moisture induces
hydroscopic stresses and
alters thermal stresses.
Coupled-field elements
allow to incorporate
moisture effects in
thermal, structural and
coupled simulations.

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Advanced Modeling
Explicit Analysis

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Motivation
Explicit formulations
extend the range of
problems a structural
engineer can solve.
Providing handling
capabilities similar to
implicit solutions
provides an easy
transition from implicit
to explicit.

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A Common User Interface

Crimping

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Implicit and explicit

solutions share the
same user interface for
a shortened learning
curve and allow
straightforward data
exchange between
disciplines

New tetrahedral element

Self Piercing Rivet

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The new tetrahedral

element helps quickly
model complex
geometries for low
velocity applications
such as drop tests for
mobile phones or
nuclear equipments

Fast Solutions Using 2-D Formulations

2D forming

Similarly to implicit
analyses, 2D plain
strain and
axisymmetric
formulations provide
faster computation of
explicit solutions

Axisymmetric
bullet model

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Geometry
Advances for Structural Engineers

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Motivation
With every release,
ANSYS improves the
quality of the geometry
tools available in
Workbench in order to
increase the quality of
the geometric data.
Ease of use is also
constantly improved to
provide more efficient
tools.
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Mid Surfacing Improvements

Selection tolerance is
available to handle face
pairs in case of
imperfect offsets.
Body thicknesses can be
displayed on the model.

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Usability Enhancements

Toolbars can be
customized for easy and
direct access to preferred
features and tools.
Hot keys are also
available for frequently
used operations.
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SpaceClaim Direct Modeler

Preview sharing allow
to control topology
sharing before
transferring the model
into Workbench.

Regular patch

Multi-face patch

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Multi-face patch
option increases the
quality of repairs for
missing faces.

Physics Coupling
System Optimization with Rigid Body Dynamics
and Simplorer co-simulation

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Motivation
Most mechanisms and
assemblies are managed
via control systems.
System simulation,
including the details of
the mechanism or
assembly, are needed in
order to improve
modeling accuracy,
fidelity and ultimately
system optimization.

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Linking Mechanical and Simplorer

Inputs and outputs are

defined as pins in the
Mechanical model and
connected to the
schematics of Simplorer

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Simulation Results

Force Applied on Pistons

Rotational Displacement
Rotational Velocity

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Some Examples
Aircraft Landing
Gear

Robotic Arm Control

RBD model

Simplorer schematic of
hydraulic circuit and control
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Trace of arm
trajectory

And there is much more

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check the Release Notes!

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Think also of the Technology Demonstration

Guide

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Thank you for attending this

session

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