Structures

ANSYS structural analysis software allows engineers to solve complex structural engineering problems and make better, faster design decisions. With the finite element analysis (FEA) tools available in its Mechanical suite, engineers can customize and automate solutions for their structural mechanics problems and parameterize them to analyze multiple design scenarios. Having seamless capabilities to connect easily to other physics analysis, ANSYS structural analysis software is used throughout the industry to enable engineers to optimize the design of their product.
ANSYS Mechanical suite is a comprehensive FEA analysis (finite element) tool for structural analysis, including linear, nonlinear and dynamic studies. Product provides a complete set of elements behavior, material models and equation solvers for a wide range of mechanical design problems. In addition, ANSYS Mechanical offers thermal analysis and coupled-physics capabilities involving acoustic, piezoelectric, thermal–structural and thermo-electric analysis.

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STRENGTH ANALYSIS

ANSYS Mechanical included all the capabilities an engineer needs to perform strength analysis of any structure. The response of the structure can be measured in terms or displacement, stress or strain on an assembly including linear, nonlinear and dynamic studies. It has the ability to account for bolt-loading, stress caused by temperature variation and physical loads such as pressure, forces, moments, accelerations and displacements.

VIBRATION ANALYSIS

ANSYS Mechanical simulations helps engineers understand how their structure will respond to vibrations from against vibrational loads such as brake squeal, earthquakes, transport, and acoustic and harmonics. ANSYS Mechanical either in single physic or multiphysics simulations helps you to overcome your toughest vibration challenges.

THERMAL ANALYSIS

Thermal management is a key concern in product design as the Internet of Things, wearable electronics and other product design trends condense heat-generating electrical components into smaller and smaller packages. ANSYS tools provide an environment for highly-accurate thermal simulation, including convection, radiation and conduction loads, as well as the effect of power losses and thermal energy from friction and other external sources.

DURABILITY

Vibration and fatigue can severely impact maintenance costs and the life span of your products. ANSYS Mechanical solution and ANSYS nCode DesignLife analysis provide the integrated tools needed to identify potential vibration, mechanical and thermomechanical fatigue hotspots and improve product durability.

RIGID BODY DYNAMICS

Mechanical systems often contain complex assemblies of interconnected parts, such as suspension assemblies in ground ehicles, robotics in manufacturing processes and landing gear in aircraft, Simulating the movement these systems is expensive, both in time and computational resources. ANSYS Rigid Body Dynamics provides a faster, less expensive and more efficient solution in the highly productive and easy to use ANSYS Mechanical.

HYDRODYNAMICS

The design requirements for offshore structures can differ greatly from traditional land-based constructions. ANSYS echanical provides the tools for accurately simulating the load and effects of waves, currents and wind based phenomena. You can define
the level of detail you need, from simplified models for truss type structures to high fidelity simulations that include all aspects of the wave, tide and current loading.

COMPOSITES

Composite materials provide new solutions — and new challenges — for manufacturers looking for stronger, lighter and innovative materials. ANSYS Composite PrepPost, part of ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise, software provides all the tools necessary for finite element analysis of layered composite structures.

IMPACT

Damage caused by collision or harsh environmental conditions can shorten a product’s lifespan, inflict warranty and repair expenses and incur liability risks. ANSYS structural analysis tools enable you to simulate mechanical, explicit dynamics and rigid body dynamics models to identify potential product deformation or damage after impact.

OPTIMIZATION

ANSYS Design Xplorer enables you to model multiple design parameters, different loading, and changes in environmental
conditions in less than the time it takes to build a single physical prototype. Tools to identify then impact of each parameter and include manufacturing variability through 6 sigma methods. It enables you perform all your simulation in a single environment, ensuring the best design for any condition.

HPC FOR FEA

Parallel processing with ANSYS HPC can significantly reduce solution time from days to hours, and makes possible large and extremely complex virtual models that were previously unfeasible. Designers can evaluate more design iterations in less time, speeding design optimization. Flexible and scalable licensing helps make HPC available to companies of any size.

TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION

ANSYS Mechanical gives you the tools you need to take advantage of new manufacturing methods like additive manufacturing. The optimal shape of a part is often organic and counterintuitive; ANSYS topology optimization technology lets you specify where
supports and loads are located on a volume of material and lets the software find the best shape. You can now easily perform lightweighting of structures, extract CAD shapes and quickly verify the optimized design.

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Additive manufacturing is a method of fabricating complex parts layer-by- layer from a 3-D model. ANSYS additive manufacturing simulations help you to optimize your design for 3-D printing, determine any potential stresses or distortions in the design so they can be corrected upfront, and predict the microstructure of the part based on the thermal history during fabrication. Simulation eliminates trial and error and gives you confidence that the part can be successfully built the first time with sound structural properties.

FLAGSHIP PRODUCTS

MECHANICAL ENTERPRISE

Mechanical Enterprise is a comprehensive suite of finite element analysis (FEA) solutions that provides in-depth analysis of structural and coupled-field behaviour in an environment.

MECHANICAL ENTERPRISE

ANSYS MECHANICAL ENTERPIRISE

ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise is the flagship mechanical engineering software solution that uses finite element analysis (FEA) for structural analysis using the ANSYS Mechanical interface. It covers an enormous range of applications and comes complete with everything you need from geometry preparation to optimization and all the steps in between. With Mechanical Enterprise you can model advanced materials, complex environmental loadings and industry-specific requirements in areas such
as offshore hydrodynamics and layered composite materials.

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High-Performance Computing

Contact detection, mesh generation and solving operations all benefit from additional, ever-increasing core counts. Distributed ANSYS solutions can increase speed in applications that use up to 1,000 cores.

Geometric Nonlinearity

Capture the change in stiffness caused by loads applied to structures, ensuring your simulation accounts for effects like stress stiffening, large strain and large deflections. Advanced materials models for geomechanics, metals, hyperelastics and composites combined with user-defined materials provide a complete solution for nonlinear analysis.

Fatigue Module

Avoid failure due to repeated cyclic loading. Fatigue analysis can determine the capability of a material to survive the loading cycles experienced during its lifetime.

Contact Capabilities

Simulate contacts or joints in assemblies. Model frictional, bonded and other types of contacts with automatic contact generation to accelerate the creation of contact pairs.

 


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Multiphysics

Analyze the interaction of different physics phenomena to better simulate real-world conditions. Example interactions: Fluid–Structure interaction (one-way) Thermal–Structure interaction (sequential) Other interactions through external data

Thermal Analysis

Perform steady-state and transient thermal analyses of products, including conduction, convection and radiation effects. Modeling phase-change and temperature-dependent materials ensures an accurate simulation.

Dynamics

You can simulate full linear dynamics for modal, harmonic, spectrum response and random vibration, plus transient implicit and explicit effects for impacts and longer, time-dependent simulations, respectively.

Systems Simulation

ANSYS Simplorer is a powerful platform for modeling, simulating and analyzing virtual system prototypes. Verify and optimize the performance of software-controlled, multidomain systems designs.

 


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ANSYS SpaceClaim

ANSYS SpaceClaim is a fast and intuitive 3-D modeling software solution that enables any analyst or engineer to create, edit and repair geometry.

Composites

ANSYS composite simulation software lets you model material definition, first and last ply failure modes, and delamination of layered composites.

Optimization

ANSYS DesignXplorer leverages the persistent and automated power of ANSYS Workbench for parametric analyses. It enables you to explore, understand and optimize your design.

Customization

Create ACT apps to capture expert knowledge, specialized processes and best practices.

Hydrodynamics

Simulate wave, wind and current loads on floating and fixed offshore and marine structures, including spars, FPSOs, semi-submersibles,TLPs, ships, renewable energy systems and breakwater design.

Linear Dynamics

Modal, harmonic, spectrum, random and rotordynamic analyses enable you to understand how natural frequencies, forced vibration, seismic events and transportation vibrations in different environments might affect structures.

Material Models

For nonlinear material properties, Mechanical can simulate hyperelasticity for rubber-like materials and rate-dependent plasticity under loading.

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Rigid Body Dynamics/Motion

Simulate mechanical motion by modeling joints, both perfect and imperfect, and defining stiffness of bushes and bearings for both rigid body and flexible systems.

Trace Mapping

Accurate simulation of printed circuit boards (PCBs) requires accounting for the metal traces and dielectric regions. You can automatically map trace metal onto PCB geometry with Mechanical Premium.

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MECHNICAL PREMIUM

Mechanical Premium is a finite element analysis (FEA) solution that gives you greater engineering insight with advanced nonlinear stress simulations and comprehensive linear dynamics.

MECHNICAL PREMIUM

ANSYS MECHANICAL PREMIUM

ANSYS Mechanical Premium uses the ANSYS Mechanical interface to deliver powerful finite element modeling capabilities in a way that you can use to make real structural engineering decisions. Mechanical Premium gives you access to the ANSYS Mechanical solver with incredible scalability, wide industry adoption and superb support from a broad base of engineers around the globe.

Features

    • Linear Dynamics

    • Material Models

    • Rigid Body Dynamics/Motion

    • High-Performance Computing

    • Trace Mapping

    • Multiphysics

    • Geometric Nonlinearity

    • Fatigue Module

    • Contact Capabilities

    • Thermal Analysis

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MECHNICAL PRO

Mechanical Pro is a finite element analysis (FEA) solution that provides robust general purpose stress, thermal, vibration and fatigue simulations for fast and accurate solutions.

MECHNICAL PRO

ANSYS MECHANICAL PRO

ANSYS Mechanical Pro adds more features to the capabilities of ANSYS DesignSpace. It has the same user interface as DesignSpace, resulting in a fast learning experience and greater productivity for regular or occasional users.

Features

      • High-Performance Computing

      • Geometric Nonlinearity

      • Fatigue Module

      • Contact Capabilities

      • Multiphysics

      • Thermal Analysis

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OTHER FEATURED PRODUCTS

Autodyn

ANSYS Autodyn simulates the response of materials to short duration severe loadings from impact, high pressure or explosions. It is best suited for simulating large material deformation or failure.

Autodyn

ANSYS AUTODYN

ANSYS Autodyn simulates the response of materials to short duration severe loadings from impact, high pressure or explosions. It is best suited for simulating large material deformation or failure.

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Solver Technology

Lagrangian, Euler and Multimaterial Euler solvers give a wide range of capabilities; the smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) solver completes the picture to provide everything needed for explicit analysis.

Solver Coupling

Automatic communication between solvers enables coupling of fluid-solid interaction (FSI) models for blast, erosion, impact and multiscale simulations of high-speed events.

Material Data

Ideal tool for the rapid and reliable design of aerodynamic and hydrodynamic blade rows.

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LS-DYNA

ANSYS LS-DYNA is the most commonly used explicit simulation program, capable of simulating the response of materials to short periods of severe loading. Its many elements, contact formulations.

LS-DYNA

ANSYS LS-DYNA

ANSYS LS-DYNA is the most commonly used explicit simulation program, capable of simulating the response of materials to short periods of severe loading. Its many elements, contact formulations, material models and other controls can be used to simulate complex models with control over all the details of the problem.

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Nonlinear Structural Analysis

Simulate models with large amounts of contacts, joints and other connections undergoing drop, impact and other short timescale events.

ANSYS Workbench Integration

LS-DYNA’s integration into ANSYS Workbench via ACT means fast and easy model setup and parametric simulation capabilities.

Element and Contact Combinations

ANSYS LS-Dyna gives you a wide range of low- and high-order element formulations in solids, shells, and beams. Extensive range of contact options enables automatic contact detection between solids, shells, and beams while taking into account beam cross-sections and shell thicknesses.

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nCode DesignLife

ANSYS nCode DesignLife works with ANSYS Mechanical to reliably evaluate fatigue life. Using the results of finite element analysis (FEA) from ANSYS Mechanical, it calculates stresses and strains, damage.

nCode DesignLife

ANSYS nCODE DESIGN LIFE

ANSYS nCode DesignLife works with ANSYS Mechanical to reliably evaluate fatigue life. Using the results of finite element analysis (FEA) from ANSYS Mechanical, it calculates stresses and strains, then cumulates damage from repetitive loading to determine a product’s predicted life. You can quickly evaluate the effects of different materials and alternative geometries for new designs, and then optimize them for the product’s expected usage — long before the first prototype is built.

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Ease of Use

ANSYS nCode DesignLife is fully integrated within the ANSYS Workbench environment, so you can define a complete fatigue process that you can apply repeatedly.

Extensive Fatigue Material Library

ANSYS nCode DesignLife comes with a complete materials library to aid in building models quickly.

State-of- the-art Fatigue Modeling Capabilities

ANSYS nCode DesignLife contains the most up-to- date methods and simulation tools to make predicting fatigue life as accurate and easy as possible.

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DesignSpace

ANSYS DesignSpace is a tried and tested structural analysis solution for engineers and designers looking to leverage the validated and widely used ANSYS Mechanical solver in the same environment as higher level tools.

DesignSpace

ANSYS DESIGNSPACE

ANSYS DesignSpace is a tried and tested structural analysis solution for engineers and designers looking to leverage the validated and widely used ANSYS Mechanical solver in the same environment as higher-level tools. The same intuitive and powerful tools that enable fast setup, solving and post-processing are available to DesignSpace users. A tree-driven environment that provides a logical top to bottom workflow with meaningful feedback means that even occasional users can be productive.

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Automated Contact

Easily generate contact interfaces between parts in an assembly. Automated contact detection speeds up the preparation time involved in modeling large assemblies.

Platform Technologies

The ANSYS Workbench environment can create linked analyses, which are useful for thermal stress studies, for example, and parametric models.

Geometry and Meshing

You can read native computer-aided design (CAD) geometry or stand-alone geometries into ANSYS structural analysis software and create accurate meshes on solid, shell and beam models.

Modal Analysis

Determine the vibration characteristics (natural frequencies and mode shapes) of designs, in pre-stressed or stressed conditions, so you can better predict your product’s real-world behavior.

Strength Analysis

Solve static analysis and analyze linear buckling. Examine deflections, stresses and strains on assemblies, part by part, or at the feature level.

Report Generation

Explore designs and efficiently document the results. All technical data and pictures of the model are available in a convenient format (HTML, Microsoft® Word or Microsoft® PowerPoint).

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ACT

Configuring simulation applications to fit your engineering workflows is complex and time-consuming. ACT simplifies this process so you can focus more on engineering your products than on customizing..

ACT

ANSYS ACT

Configuring simulation applications to fit your engineering workflows is complex and time-consuming. ACT simplifies this process so you can focus more on engineering your products than on customizing the software. With ACT you can create apps to automate your routine workflows, customize specialized processes, develop business-specific applications, and integrate third-party tools and data with the ANSYS product line.

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Extend Your Simulation Functionality

Extend ANSYS applications to meet your business needs by creating new features such as new loads and boundary conditions, custom pre- and post-processing tools, etc.

Compress Your Simulation Process

Leverage your engineering process experts’ knowledge and ACT’s custom wizards to compress your business-specific processes into streamlined apps.

Customize Your Workflows

Manage your complex simulation workflows comprising multiple applications by unifying fragmented simulations within one environment.

Integrate Third Party Tools and Data

Integrate your external programs and data, define custom solvers and add new optimization algorithms in the flowchart-like schematic of ANSYS Workbench.

Explore, Share and Sell Apps

Enhance your simulation experience while increasing the speed and scalability of simulation-led product creation by downloading apps and sharing your own across your entire ecosystem of global teams, suppliers and partners.

Develop Apps Effortlessly

A simple-yet-powerful app builder interface, consistent APIs and extensive developer resources guide you through the customization and app creation process.
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