ANSYS 18.2 Mechanical Products Update

ANSYS Mechanical products 18.
2 updates
August 2017
1 2017 ANSYS, Inc. August 25, 2017

Index
Whats new in Mechanical Material

Acoustics Coupled field
Topology Optimization Solver
Contact Explicit Dynamics
Preprocessing LS-Dyna
Surface Coating
External model

Mechanical 18.2
Release highlights taken from Whats new page

18.2 Enhancements
Ease of Use Enhancements

Major Efforts
Hotkeys
Acoustics
Animation updates
Imported Contacts
New/duplicate analysis system
Topology Optimization Advances
Options to create results
Simplified mesh sizing controls
Physics Enhancements Advanced
Surface coatings Element face selections
Drop test module Result file browsing
AIM to Mechanical transfer

Major Efforts : Acoustics
New analysis types available on the project

schematic for Modal and Harmonic analysis.
New acoustic analysis systems
Acoustic pressure plot

Major Efforts : Imported Contacts
Transfer contact surface to

surface (solid or shell bodies)
data/objects through the
External Model system. For
thermal analyses, this includes
thermal conductivity.

Major Efforts : Topology Optimization Advances
New capability to add multiple Exclusion Region objects under
Optimization Region to better control solution generated.
Optimization objective can now be specified as a range.

Major Efforts : Topology Optimization Advances
Manufacturing constraint pull out direction

can now be specified using local coordinate
system.
Solution can now be stopped mid progress without waiting

for the iteration to complete.

Physics Enhancements : Surface Coatings
This feature places shell elements of

a specified material and thickness on
the selected face or faces of your
model.

Physics Enhancements : Drop test module
A new Mechanical ACT Extension,

MechanicalDropTest, has been included in the
install. The extension includes a wizard which
automates the setup of a drop test analysis in an Drop test wizard inside Mechanical
Explicit Dynamics system.

To use the wizard, it is only
necessary to provide the
geometry of the object to
be dropped.
Wizard creates drop target and

analysis settings automatically

Ease of Use : Hotkeys
General Animation
Zooms to current selection Play/pause animation
Isometric view Stop animation
Activate element face selection Back 1 frame
Forward 1 frame
Full screen graphics
Full screen graphics window
Activate/deactivate tree display
Activate/deactivate details pane display

Ease of Use : Animation update
New option to have legend dynamically change from frame to frame and
the result contours display the full range of colors from the minimum
value to the maximum value.
Legend scale remains constant Legend scale updates frame by frame

Ease of Use : New/duplicate analysis system
Duplicate or create a new analysis system directly from within Mechanical

Ease of Use : Options to Create Results
Easily create multiple result items from tabular data

area. New results are automatically grouped in new
folder.

Ease of Use : Simplified mesh sizing controls
New option to simplify meshing controls and

make a simpler user experience with clearer
controls.
Simplified controls on right

Advanced : Element face selections
New ability to select single faces or, double click, to

flood select.

Advanced : Result file browsing
Worksheet results now have

Solver component names and
ability to plot items directly from
the worksheet.

Advanced : AIM to Mechanical transfer
ANSYS AIM (included as part of

Mechanical Enterprise) can now
easily transfer model and mesh
to Mechanical.

WorkBench Mechanical Acoustics
18.2 release

Outline
Acoustics Simulation: Applications and Background

WorkBench Mechanical Acoustics: Modal Acoustics and
Harmonic Acoustics analysis
One way coupled or fully coupled vibro-acoustic analysis
Acoustics material properties and models
Acoustic Problems: Sloshing, Sound Scattering, Random
Excitation with Diffuse Sound field, Wave absorption
conditions and Electromagnetic noise source
Application examples

Acoustic Simulation Application
Acoustic Simulation
Simulate the generation, propagation, radiation, absorption and reflection
of sound pressure waves in acoustic medium
Applications
Noise elimination in automobiles
Noise minimization in machines
Architecture acoustics
Hearing devices
Sonar and underwater acoustics
Design of speakers, acoustic filters, mufflers, and other similar devices
Geophysical exploration

Acoustic Simulation Background
The Helmholtz equation (linear wave equation) is used as the basis for the acoustic
domain: 2
1 p
2
p0
c t
2 2
Additional modifications are made to include non-uniform material properties and

mass source terms (sloshing and FSI effects omitted in equation below):
1 2 Q
pa p j
x x c 2
x a
x
This is then solved with the finite element method:
M p C p K p q
p p p

WorkBench Mechanical Acoustics
WorkBench Mechanical Acoustics provides an integrated environment for

solving acoustic and vibro-acoustic problems:
3D analyses
Modal Acoustics and Harmonic Acoustics analyses
Coupling with structural domain for vibroacoustic analyses (one way
coupling or fully coupled)

Modal Acoustics Analysis
Modal Acoustics analysis enables you to model the acoustics and optionally structural
domain together to determine frequencies and standing wave patterns
Modal Acoustics system in the Project Schematic and the corresponding Mechanical
system is shown below. For fully coupled analysis, the structural physics can be enabled
using the Physics option either from Project schematic or Mechanical system. By default,
the Acoustics physics is enabled

Modal Acoustics Analysis
A group of bodies having either Structural or Acoustics physics is represented by a Physics region object
Additional advanced settings can then be specified on the selected acoustics or structural physics region
Block Lanczos, Subspace and Full Damped eigensolver are applicable for Modal Acoustics analysis when
structural physics region is absent ( pure acoustic domain)
Unsymmetric and Full Damped eigensolvers are available, when the structural physics region is present.

Modal Acoustics Analyses
Ability to include acoustic boundary conditions of type Pressure, Impedance boundary, Absorption
surface, Radiation boundary, Absorption element and Free surface
Ability to include acoustic loads of type Temperature, Impedance sheet and Static Pressure
Ability to include structural interactions. The Create Automatic->FSI on Modal Acoustic system can be
used to automatically identify the fluid structure interface faces and create the FSI object
Image shows standing wave patterns in an acoustic cavity

Harmonic Acoustics Analysis
Calculate response of system as a function of frequency based on

volumetric flow rate or pressure excitation
Acoustic pressure showing the transmission loss profile of a muffler Pressure wave generated by 2 speakers inside of a room

Harmonic Acoustics Analysis in the Project schematic and the corresponding Mechanical system is
shown below
For fully coupled analysis, the structural physics can be enabled using the Physics option either
from Project schematic or Mechanical system. By default, the Acoustics physics is enabled

Harmonic Acoustic Analysis
A group of bodies having either Structural or Acoustics physics is represented by a Physics

region object.
Additional settings of Acoustic Domain definition, PML Options and Advanced settings can
then be specified on the selected acoustics physics region

The Analysis settings of Harmonic Acoustics analysis supports Scattering Controls for Scattering problems
It also supports Output controls of Calculate Velocity and Calculate Energy for acoustic physics region
It also supports advanced property of Far-field radiation surface, which enables the computation of far-
field results. The user can explicitly add far-field radiation surface using the RMB option Create
Automatic->far-field radiation surface on the Harmonic acoustics system

Supports Acoustic excitations of type Mass Source, Surface Velocity, Diffuse Sound field, Incident Wave
Source and Port in Duct
Supports Acoustic loads of type Temperature, Impedance sheet and Static Pressure
Supports Acoustic Boundary conditions of type Pressure, Impedance Boundary, Absorption Surface,
Radiation Boundary, Absorption Element, Free surface, Thermo-Viscous BLI boundary, Rigid wall,
Symmetry Plane, Port and Far-Field radiation surface
Supports Acoustic models of type Transfer Admittance matrix

Acoustic Excitations
Incident Wave source: Planar wave, Monopole, Dipole, Back
enclosed loudspeaker and Bare loudspeaker
Port in Duct: Planar wave, Rectangular and Circular duct
Surface Velocity and Mass source (including frequency dependent)
Acoustic Boundary Conditions
Impedance (including frequency dependent)
Absorption coefficient (including frequency dependent)

Results : The pressure field is calculated at each element node (pressure is a degree of freedom). In the
frequency domain the equivalent source principle provide pressure parameters outside the FE domain.
The output parameters available are:
Postprocess pressure, SPL, acoustic velocity or energy in computational domain as contour plot
Postprocess results outside of computational domain (radiation)

Far-field Results
Acoustic Far Field results allows to plot the SPL, Pressure, Phase, Directivity, Scattered
pressure or Target strength on a polar graph.
Far-field radiation surface must exist to perform this calculation but it is defined automatically
by default.
To take into account symmetries (Neumann boundary), Symmetry Plane objects must be inserted
in the model.

Vibroacoustic Coupling
Ansys allows Fully coupled (for instance underwater applications) or one way coupled
vibroacoustic analyses.
One-way coupling from structure to acoustics is more computationally efficient, while the
acoustic effect on the structure can be neglected. The structural results can be used as the
acoustic excitation source using the one-way coupling process.
Several solutions are available for One-Way Coupling from Structure to Acoustics:
Project Schematic Link (non-conforming mesh)
External Data (non-conforming mesh)

Fully Coupled Vibroacoustic Analyses
The structural and acoustic equations are coupled this can be solved with an
unsymmetric matrix approach or a symmetric matrix approach, the latter being more
efficient.
The symmetric form is shown below (including the sloshing term):
p q jq
1 1 1
C fs q
1
M S 0 q Cq 0 q f q
2 o q g q Kq

u u o
j
o u f
0 M u C fs Cu 0 Ku

Fully Coupled Vibroacoustic Analyses
Coupling with structure allows for solving many tightly-coupled problems such
as transducer or speaker design
Pressure wave generated by a piezo electric transducer

One Way Coupling Vibroacoustic
The structural analysis (Mode Supersposition or Full) and the pure acoustic analysis are performed
in 2 different harmonic models.
The structural velocities are transferred to the acoustics harmonic analysis using project schematic
link.

The Method Deterministic Aero Vibro Acoustics (DAVA)

Acoustic Material Properties and Models
TBOPT Model Input Parameters

Density and Speed of sound material property is required to Fluid Resistivity , Porosity ,
Tortuosity , Viscous
define material selection for acoustic bodies JCA Johnson-Champoux-Allard
Characteristic Length , Thermal
Characteristic Length
Speed of sound is added by default for Air and Water material DLB Delany-Bazley
Fluid Resistivity (0.01 < f/
<1.00)
selected from Fluid materials Data source MIKI Miki Fluid Resistivity (f/ < 1.00)
Resistance Rs, Reactance Xs,
Complex Impedance and
Various equivalent fluid models are available to approximate ZPRO
Propagating Constant
Attenuation Constant , Phase
Constant
the perforated material with the rigid skeleton. CDV
Complex Density and Complex Effective Density and
Velocity Velocity
These perforated media models can be

added to the material from Engineering data
Sloshing
In fluid dynamics, slosh refers to the movement of liquid inside another object (which is, typically,
also undergoing motion). Strictly speaking, the liquid must have a free surface to constitute a slosh
dynamics problem, where the dynamics of the liquid can interact with the container to alter the
system dynamics significantly.
Important examples include propellant slosh in spacecraft tanks and rockets (especially upper
stages), and cargo slosh in ships and trucks transporting liquids (for example oil and gasoline).
p F g
F

Sound Scattering
Scattering is a general physical process where some forms of radiation, such as light, sound, or
moving particles, are forced to deviate from a straight trajectory by one or more localized non-
uniformities in the medium through which they pass.
In acoustics, the scattering studies how its solutions, the sound waves, scatter from solid objects or
propagate through non-uniform media (ie.sound waves, in sea water, coming from a submarine).
Specific loads excitation waves can then be used for such analyses.
Total pressure Scattered pressure

Random Excitation with Diffuse Sound Field
The diffuse sound field is approached by the asymptotic model summing a high
number of uncorrelated plane waves with random phases from all directions in free
space.
The incident space of the diffuse sound field is mesh-free.
Sender room Receiver room

Wave Absorption Conditions
The exterior structural acoustics problem typically involves a structure submerged in an

infinite, homogeneous, inviscid fluid.
In FEA we need to truncate the domain. Wave absorption conditions allow us to model a
smaller portion of the domain and assume that outgoing waves keep propagation
outwards and do not reflect back.
There are 3 types of wave absorption conditions: Perfectly Matched Layers Conditions,
Radiation Boundary & Absorption Fluid Elements:
Type Modal Harmonic

PML no yes
Radiation Boundary yes yes
Absorption Elements yes yes

Electromagnetic Noise source
Direct Force Mapping

Electromagnetic forces from Maxwell to Mechanical
by linking systems in Workbench
Can perform frequency domain Harmonic Analysis
Mechanical Vibrations induced by electromagnetic

forces acting on rotor-stator produces appreciable
noise

Application Examples

Sloshing
Calculate the sloshing modes of a fluid-containing tank under standard

earth gravity. Fluid is physically distributed and dynamics of the fluid is
taken into account.

Added Mass Effect on Immersed Structure
Analyze the added mass effect of water on a hydroturbine.

Speaker Design
Analyze and optimize the speaker design based on its vibro-acoustic

behavior. Structural velocities generates sound in the surrounding acoustic
region.

Structural Borne Sound: Noise Radiation
Vibration of a structure under a given loading generates noise in the

surrounding air domain.

Electric Motor Noise Example
Courtesy of CADFEM
Magnetic Field
ANSYS Maxwell
Forces (FFT)
Structural Dynamics
ANSYS Mechanical
Displacements
Acoustic Field
ANSYS Mechanical
Acoustic Field Results:

Sound pressure animation at 2500 Hz

Muffler Design
Three Pass Perforated Reflective Muffler
50
40
30 Experimental
20 ANSYS
10 Theory
0
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200
Single Pass Absorptive Muffler (JCA model)

50
40
30
20
ANSYS-0.962 porosity, dh= 0.249 cm, 100 kg/m^3
10
Experimental-0.962 porosity, dh= 0.249 cm, 100 kg/m^3
0
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000

Release 18.2 Topology Optimization

Topology Optimization
At 18.2 Topology Optimization:

The user can add multiple Exclusion Region object
under Optimization Region.
Optimization region object graphics view will show all
the exclusion defined through Optimization Region
and Exclusion Region objects.


The user can define Mass/Volume constraint by Range option where the
minimum and maximum percent to retain can be specified


Pull out direction can be specified using local
co-ordinate system
Support linear springs using Compliance
objective
The user can stop the solution using the Stop
Pull out direction co-ordinate
button system not aligned to global

R18.2 Developments from Contact Team
Small sliding contact (R18.2)

Relatively small sliding motion occurs between the contact and
target surface, but arbitrary rotations of contacting bodies is
permitted.
Linear contact (R18.2)
A general linear bonded contact capability for all contact algorithms
(penalty, MPC, and Lagrange multiplier) .

Small Sliding Contact
Concept:
Small-sliding contact assumes that relatively small sliding motion
(<20% contact length) occurs between the contact and target
surface, but arbitrary rotations of contacting bodies is permitted.
Each contact detection point always interacts with the same target
element which is determined from the initial configuration.
Advantages:
The small-sliding logic also improves solution robustness. It can easily solve certain complex contact models
for which the finite-sliding logic would have difficulties or find no solution. This is especially true for models
having a bad quality geometry or mesh and non-smooth contact interfaces.
The nodal connectivity of the contact element remains unchanged throughout the analysis. Contact
searching is performed only once in the beginning of the analysis. which is cost-effective.
The sparse solver can reuse the same matrix structure throughout the simulation, which avoids the costly
sequential step of equation ordering at every equilibrium iteration.

Improve contact robustness (Bolt Assembly model)
1. Apply bolt and strap clamp forces

2. Apply bolt and strap setting
3. Fix bolt and strap
4. Vertical up 6g
5. Vertical down 8g
Small Sliding + Normal Lagrange multipliers

86 iterations for 5 load steps (no bisections)
55 iterations for first load step
11836 sec wall time using 16 CPUs Not actual model
Solution diverges with Finite Sliding + Normal Lagrange multipliers
Solution converges with Finite Sliding + Penalty method (94 iterations)

Improve contact robustness (Engine model)

3.8 million DOF; sparse solver
Nonlinear static analysis involving
contact, plasticity and gasket elements
One load step with 6 sub-steps
Using small sliding contact option in R18.2: 27 equilibrium iterations
Using finite sliding contact option in R18.2: 45 equilibrium iterations (Better contact
stiffness for gasket elements introduced in R18.0)
Using finite sliding contact option in R17.2: 53equilibrium iterations

Distributed ANSYS Enhancements
DMP Scaling Comparison
160
140 R17.2
R18.1
120
Solver Rating
R18.2
100 3x speedup
80
60
3.8 million DOF; sparse solver 40

Nonlinear static analysis involving
contact, plasticity and gasket elements 20
Linux cluster; each compute node
contains 2 Intel Xeon E5-2695v3 0
processors, 256GB RAM, SSD, SLES 11.3 0 32 64 96 128 160 192 224 256
Mellanox FDR Infiniband
Number of Cores

Linear Contact
Concept:
For bonded and no separation contact, if no other nonlinearities exist in the model (plasticity, large deformation, or
unilateral contact), a linear solution (no equilibrium iteration) is good enough to obtain an accurate solution.
Advantages:
The contact searching and is performed once in the beginning of the linear analysis.
The factorized stiffness matrix can be re-used if there is no displacement constraint is added or removed.
Reaction forces are always balanced comparing with the old one iteration NL solution.
1st Load: apply pretension forces

2nd Load: Lock pretensions
3rd 20th load apply external forces
Linear contact solving time: 490 sec

1 iteration NL solving time: 1081 sec

Mechanical Preprocessing Highlights

18.2 Mechanical Prep Highlights:
Improved Shared Topology

Shell/Solid Multibody parts
Improved modeling in SpaceClaim
Simplified mesh sizing
Dynamic defaults
Defeaturing more prominent
Improved mixed order meshing
Improved usability for contact sizing

18.2 Shared Topology
Notes:
Improved robustness & performance
Support for shell/solid multibody parts
Improved beam/shell support
Improved support for zero thickness baffles
New option to show obscured edges
New ability to separate overlapping bodies
Legacy share methods easier to access
If you want to make CAD changes (Pull, Move, etc) after Sharing,
best to Unshare everything, make the change, and then re-Share
Shell/Solid Multibody parts: Improved support in SpaceClaim & DesignModeler
Support added for embedded and

T-connection cases

Shell/Solid Multibody parts: Meshing
Meshing support added
Note:
Element Order=Program Controlled
means solids get meshed as high
order, shells get meshed as linear
(mixed order mesh)
Mechanical does not currently
support mixed order sheets, so user
should set the element order
appropriately for such models.
User should set
this to Linear or
Quadratic

Shell/Solid Multibody parts: Surface coating
Alternatively, a user can insert a surface coating in

Mechanical by simply picking faces and inserting a
surface coating

Improved modeling in SpaceClaim
Small face tool now removes small faces that are

single bodies
Improved workflow of Split tool
New spacing for annotations

Improved faceted modeling in SpaceClaim
Facet slider allows facets to be deselected

Inspection tools now work on solids
Mesh to mesh comparison improved and much
faster

Simplified mesh sizing user experience
Goals:
1. Incorporate some of the best practices for meshing as the default options.
2. Simplify scaling up or down the mesh size
3. Reduce the complexity Improve ease of use!
18.2 Improvements:
1. Dynamic defaults
2. Elevate defeature size
3. Tools Options Meshing
Simplified Mesh Sizing UI
Simplified mesh sizing user experience
Dynamic defaults:
In the past, global scaling has been done via Relevance, but
there have been many complaints about this.
At the same time, the software sets the defaults starting with
the element size or max face size, and scales the other sizes
in relation to it.
At 18.2, the user can pivot around the element size (or max
face size) and use this for scaling instead of using relevance
to scale the model.
To do this, leave the defeature size, min size and/or max tet size
as default and simply adjust the element size (or max face size)
For further control use Min Size Factor and/or Defeature size
factor to set the desired scaling.
Locally, a user can use the new Factor of Global Size type in the
sizing control to set the relevant sizing based on global.
Simplified mesh sizing user experience: Dynamic defaults
Default mesh (nothing has changed here @ 18.2): Dynamic defaults:
Software computes default size based on bounding box When user changes Element size (Max face size), if the user has not
entered a value for defeature size, min size or max size, the defaults
Defeature size is defaulted to 0.005 * Element size (Max face size) dynamically update.
Min size is set to 0.001 * Element Size (Max face size) Thus a user can pivot around the Element size (max face size) for a
more direct scaling of values (in comparison to relevance)
Max size is set to 2 * Element size (Max face size)
Max face size changed to

~1/2 the default value,
Element count goes up ~2X
Discrepancy explained next
Simplified mesh sizing user experience: Size Factors
Affect of defeature size, min size & max
size scaling:
You can see on the left that if the user reduces the
element size (max face size) by ~2X the element count
nearly doubles
If the user increases the element size (max face size) by
~2X, the element count does not change much. This is a
result of this model being heavily influenced by the min
size, and the min size factor is large.
Element size
(Max face size)
Min size
Here the Curvature Normal angle is increasing the min size to limit
curvature refinement, as a result the same curvature refinement is
done for all three cases shown in this example
In this case, we change the
Simplified mesh sizing user experience: Size Factors ToolsOptionsMeshing Size
Factors:
Mechanical Min Size Factor
from 0.01 to 0.1
Defeature Size Factor from
0.005 to 0.05
75 2017 ANSYS, Inc. August 25, 2017 Mesh scaling is now much more linear!
Simplified mesh sizing user experience: Local Size Factors
Local Size Factors:

Instead of using the size factors in
Tools->Options, local sizing controls
can be scoped to individual or all
parts, and the Type can be set to
Factor of Global Size
Defeature size scale then sets the body
defeature size as a factor of the global element
size (max face size)
Curvature min size scale then sets the body min
size as a factor of the global element size (max
face size)
These local controls provide a way to
set different body sizing relative to
each other

Simplified mesh sizing user experience:
Elevate defeature size:

Defeature size is often a more useful control for meshing than min size.
As a result, the defeature size has been moved up in the user interface
18.1 18.2

Simplified mesh sizing user experience:
Simplified mesh sizing UI:

The following older technology is deprecated:
Relevance & Relevance Center Replaced by dynamic defaults
Size Function = Adaptive replaced by Capture Curvature: Yes/No
Span Angle Center replaced by Curvature Normal Angle
Transition replaced by Growth Rate
Initial size seed and Number of retries removed

Mixed Order Meshing: Selective Meshing
User can now selectively mesh the tet body first, then
hex body:
Dropped midnodes Hex20/

Wedge15
Default mesh:
Hex8/
Wedge6
Tet10 Tet10
Hex8/
Wedge6
Improved usability for contact sizing:
Individual or several contact regions can be

promoted to contact sizing via Create-
>Contact sizing
Narrow in on contact sizings of interest via
Go ToContact Sizing Common to Selected
Bodies

Surface Coating
Mechanical now enables you to create a shell surface,

or Surface Coating, on an existing 3D face of your
model.
Allows for accurate evaluation of surface stresses or
to overlay your structure with thin parts, for e.g. to
model Thermal Barrier Coatings.
Specify thickness, stiffness behavior, coordinate
system and material to accurately model different
applications.
You can view results on surface coatings using the
new Surface Coating scoping method on results.

Mesh Import through External
Model
Preview 2

18.2 Enhancements
Support for Element Face scoping in Mechanical

Import additional data from input files
Import of Element Face components from Abaqus
Contacts
Usability enhancements
Better controls (sort/multi-edit) when working with Imported Data worksheets
ACT Exposure and Scripting

Support for Element Face scoping in Mechanical
Mechanical now supports the selection and scoping of element
faces and create Named Selections based on element faces
Named Selection created through:

Direct Scoping
Criterion based worksheet
Scoped Element Faces can be treated as:

Nodes
Mesh200 Elements

Import of Element Face components from Abaqus
Mechanical now imports element face components from
Abaqus

Import of contacts from CBD and ABAQUS
Import of Surface to Surface/Node contacts from Abaqus is
now supported.
Import of *TIE commands from Abaqus is now supported.
Imported as pure penalty based bonded contacts
Import of Surface to Surface contacts from CDB is now
supported.
Contact 174
Target 170
Supported for:
Structural Analyses
Thermal Analyses

Import additional data from input files (contd.)
Following properties are Imported/Exposed:
Type
Bonded, No Separation, Frictionless, Rough, Frictional, Forced Friction Sliding
Behavior
Symmetric,
Asymmetric,
Auto asymmetric
Formulation
Augmented Lagrange,
Pure Penalty,
MPC,
Normal Lagrange
Friction Coefficient / Thermal Conductance

Import additional data from input files (contd.)

Can be promoted to native contact objects
User can scoped element faces to contacts
created in Mechanical
Both direct and named selection based
scoping is supported

ACT Exposure and Scripting
Mechanical now provides access to Imported FE Command

Database through ACT.
Supported for CDB and ABAQUS Files.
Both Processed and Unprocessed commands are
available.
User can extend the import by scripting the processing
login for Unprocessed commands through ACT

ACT Exposure and Scripting (Example)
List all nodes from CDB File
Input
Output
Commands
ACT Exposure and Scripting (Example)
List all nodes from Abaqus File
Input
Output
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18.2 Materials Features

Drucker-Prager Concrete
Concrete behaves different depending on whether it is loaded in tension or

compression
The current (pre 18.2) Drucker-Prager Concrete model is a composite yield surface
with 2 Drucker-Prager surfaces
One Drucker-Prager surface defines the compression behavior
One Drucker-Prager surface defines the tension and combined
compression+tension behavior
In 18.2 we added a Drucker-Prager concrete model that uses one Drucker-Prager
yield surface in compression or combined compression+tension and a Rankine
tension cutoff for pure tension loading
Rankine tension surface results in plastic yielding Rankine Surface
if any stress component reaches the tension yield stress
Drucker Prager Concrete Surfaces

Hyperelastic Nominal Strain
Strain output for nonlinear geometry is log strain

User enhancement request to output nominal strain for hyperelastic materials
Use for post-processing fatigue life calculations

Coupled-Diffusion Analyses Enhancements
To provide greater flexibility for specifying complex loading and material input for coupled-diffusion
analyses such as electromigration, the following enhancements have been made to the diffusion and
coupled-field analyses
The concentration degree of freedom (CONC) is now a primary variable with the TABLE type array
parameters
Elements PLANE223, SOLID226/227, PLANE238, and SOLID239/240 now support material properties
defined as a function of primary variables (e.g. TIME, X, Y, Z, TEMP, CONC)
In addition to other primary variables, the diffusion flux (DFLUX) and diffusing substance generation
(DGEN) loads can now be defined as functions of concentration (CONC)
! Define electrical resistivity as a function of concentration

*DIM,RSV_C,TABLE,6,,,CONC
RSV_C(1,0)=0,0.2,0.4,0.6,0.8,1.
RSV_C(1,1)=1.E-8,1.1E-8,1.3E-8,1.5E-8,1.7E-8,1.9E-8
MP,RSVX,1,%RSV_C%

Mechanical APDL Solver 18.2

New features
Support for residual vector and residual response calculations
RESVEC command
Includes support for modal analyses, spectrum analyses and
transient/harmonic analyses which use the mode-superposition method
Improved scaling
Improved performance with introduction of small sliding contact
Improved performance at very high core counts

Improved scaling to 3000+ cores

DMP Scaling Comparison
350
R18.1
300
R18.2
250
Solver Rating
200
Solder balls
16 million DOF; sparse solver
Nonlinear transient analysis 150
Linux cluster; each compute node
100
contains 2 Intel Xeon Gold 6148
Package
processors, 192GB RAM, SSD, RHEL
50
7.3
Intel Omnipath interconnect 0
PCB
128 256 512 1024 2048 4096
Number of Cores
Model courtesy of MicroConsult Engineering GmbH
Cluster data provided by Intel via the Endeavor cluster

Miscellaneous Enhancements
Upgraded to the 2017 Update 2 Intel MKL libraries

Provides access to the AVX-512 instruction set
Improved performance on Intel Skylake architecture
Biggest speedup gains achieved in the sparse direct solver
R18 Benchmark set (DMP)

Iterative Solver Direct Solver
Used GeoMean for each class of Benchmarks Benchmarks
benchmarks
Used 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, & 32 cores
2 Intel Xeon Gold 6148 (2.4 GHz,
R18.1 557 sec 474 sec
40 cores total), 192 GB RAM, Linux
CentOS 7.3 R18.2 537 sec 319 sec
R18.2 performs over 30% faster than

R18.1 on Skylake systems

Miscellaneous Enhancements
Performance on Intel Skylake architecture

Mechanical APDL significantly faster on newest Intel processors
See comparison here between 2 similar systems
Haswell system vs. Skylake system (using R18.2)
R18 Benchmark set (DMP) Iterative Solver Direct Solver

Used GeoMean for each class of Benchmarks Benchmarks
benchmarks
Used 1, 2, 4, 8, & 16 cores Haswell
2 Intel Xeon E5-2695 v3 (2.3 GHz, 28 829 sec 661 sec
system
cores total), 256 GB RAM, Linux
CentOS 7.2 Skylake
2 Intel Xeon Gold 6148 (2.4 GHz, 40 696 sec 390 sec
system
cores total), 192 GB RAM, Linux
CentOS 7.3 Skylake system is 20% to 40% faster than
Haswell for a variety of simulations!
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Explicit Dynamics Enhancements
18.2 Release
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Drop Test Wizard
Drop Test Wizard allow easy set up of a drop

test simulation:
Creates a Drop Test Ground Plane
Sets up initial conditions, boundary conditions
and contact
Allows ease of orientation of dropped geometry
Allows parametric study of drop height
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Drop Test Wizard
Implemented as a Mechanical ACT

Extension:
Automatically included in the install (Windows
only)
Needs to be loaded from the ACT Extensions
Manager
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Drop Test Wizard
Launched in Mechanical
for Explicit Dynamics
systems from the
Environment toolbar
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Drop Test Wizard
The Wizard automatically does the following:

Adds Standard Earth Gravity
Adds result plots
Sets frictional behavior
Applies analysis settings
Sets analysis end time
Applies Fixed Support to the automatically created
Drop Plane (see next slides)
Meshes the geometry
Performs a mesh penetration check
Plus more: see next slides
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Drop Test Ground Plane
The Wizard automatically creates the Drop Test Ground Plane:

Uses the Construction Geometry feature
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Drop Height Initial Condition
The Wizard creates a Drop Height object

Drop Height object available in all Explicit Dynamics
systems
Effectively:
Drop Height is converted to Initial Velocity
Removes requirement to simulate free fall
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Rotate Geometry Object
The Wizard creates a Rotate Geometry object:

Allows easy manipulation of geometry orientation
Geometry rotations can be changed using the wizard
and using the Rotate Geometry object
The Drop Test Ground Plane location and size is
adjusted following a change in rotation
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LS-DYNA Licensing Update
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R 18.2 Enhancements : New ANSYS LS-DYNA HPC Pack 256
This model has been developed by The National Crash Analysis Center (NCAC) of The George Washington
University under a contract with the FHWA and NHTSA of the US DOT
Need for
Speed ?
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R 18.2 Enhancements : New ANSYS LS-DYNA HPC Pack 256
LS-DYNA Parallel (MPP) has best in class

scalability
ANSYS LS-DYNA HPC licenses
8/16/32/64/128/256 Cores
1M Nodes
3K Spotwelds
Airbags,
Kinematic joints
Parallel Performance:
52 minutes
on 24 cores
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18.2 Licensing Update
Workbench LS-DYNA is now enabled by ANSYS Mechanical

Enterprise PrepPost.
An additional license enabling a solve is still needed
The licenses enabling a solve include;
ANSYS LS-DYNA
ANSYS Academic Research LS-DYNA
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Whats new in Mechanical Material

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Ease of Use Enhancements

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New analysis types available on the project

New acoustic analysis systems

Acoustic pressure plot

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Transfer contact surface to

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Optimization objective can now be specified as a range.

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Manufacturing constraint pull out direction

Solution can now be stopped mid progress without waiting

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This feature places shell elements of

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A new Mechanical ACT Extension,

Explicit Dynamics system.

Wizard creates drop target and

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Zooms to current selection Play/pause animation

Isometric view Stop animation

Activate element face selection Back 1 frame

Full screen graphics window

Activate/deactivate tree display

Activate/deactivate details pane display

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Legend scale remains constant Legend scale updates frame by frame

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Duplicate or create a new analysis system directly from within Mechanical

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Easily create multiple result items from tabular data

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New option to simplify meshing controls and

Simplified controls on right

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New ability to select single faces or, double click, to

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Worksheet results now have

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ANSYS AIM (included as part of

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Acoustics Simulation: Applications and Background

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Additional modifications are made to include non-uniform material properties and

This is then solved with the finite element method:

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WorkBench Mechanical Acoustics provides an integrated environment for

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Image shows standing wave patterns in an acoustic cavity

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Calculate response of system as a function of frequency based on

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A group of bodies having either Structural or Acoustics physics is represented by a Physics

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