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Mechanical Solution

Product Features Best-in-class simulation solutions for product design and optimization
Structural Analysis Types
In the present dynamic business environment, companies push the limits of their product development
4 Static analysis
4 Modal analysis cycle by developing a variety of products in a shorter design cycle. This combined with the need for
4 Harmonic response analysis higher quality, competitive pressure and faster turnaround time has increased the use of simulation in
4 Transient dynamic analysis
the traditional product development cycle. ANSYS MechanicalTM products offer solutions to tackle
4 Spectrum analysis
4 Buckling analysis these real world analysis problems by making product development less costly and more reliable.
• Linear
• Nonlinear
ANSYS Mechanical solutions offer best-in-class simulation tools for product design and
Geometric Nonlinearity
4 Large strain optimization which increase productivity, minimize physical prototyping, and help deliver better and
4 Large deflection innovative products in less time.
4 Stress stiffening
4 Spin softening
Contact Modeling Mechanical family of products offer a full depth of analysis from
4 Contact definitions concept simulation to advanced analysis and breadth of simulation
• Surface-to-surface capabilities from linear to nonlinear coupled physics analysis. They
• Node-to-surface
• Node-to-node provide simulation tools for users from designers to advanced
• Deformable-deformable analysts providing a full complement of nonlinear and linear
• Deformable-Rigid elements, material laws ranging from metal to rubber, and the most
4 Contact formulations
• Penalty comprehensive set of solvers available. ANSYS Mechanical prod-
• Augmented Lagrange ucts are built upon years of proven and reliable technology and are Stress plot of pre-tension bolt
• Assembly contact (MPC) assembly analysis.
widely used across industries from automobile, aerospace, biomed-
• Lagrange multiplier
• Lagrange multiplier on normal and ical, electronics and consumer products.
penalty on tangent
4 Contact properties Cyclic symmetry Industry Needs and Product Benefits
• Contact with friction modal analysis of
• Thermal contact turbine blade Better Design through Innovation. Advanced analysis
• Electric and magnetic contact sector using Mechanical products offers better insight into
• Spot welds model.
product design and performance, leading to increased
Boundary Conditions
quality, lower costs and fewer rejected products; Shorter
4 Solid and FE model BC's
4 Initial conditions turnaround time through simulation offers greater design
4 Tabular and function loads alternatives to develop innovative products.
4 Structural and thermal loads
4 Pre-stress loads
Material Modeling Lower Costs and Shorter Cycles. Tighter product
4 Linear elasticity integration between CAD, meshing, simulation and opti-
4 Inelastic mization offers a one stop solution for end users with reduced
• Rate independent
• Rate dependent software training costs and shorter development cycles.
• Non-metal plasticity
• Shape memory alloys
Optimized Solutions and Less Prototyping. Integrated optimization tools
• Cast iron
4 Hyperelasticity using Topological Optimization, Design Optimization and
4 Viscoplasticity and viscoelasticity Probabilistic Design, allow for tighter designs without repeated
4 Creep and swelling costly physical prototypes.
4 Piezoelectric
4 Density, specific heat, thermal
expansion ANSYS, Inc. offers a suite of products under the ANSYS
4 Thermal and electric conductivity Mechanical solution available within an easy-to-use and tightly
integrated ANSYS WorkbenchTM interface environment.
Advanced meshing with automatic
www.ansys.com contact mesh sizing offer robust
meshing solutions for bracket assembly.
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ANSYS Mechanical Products

Product Features ANSYS, Inc. offers four product subsets under its Mechanical solutions covering a wide-range of
depth and breadth of capabilities.
4 Material damping
4 User materials
4 Temperature-dependent properties Mechanical
Element Technology
4 2-D, 3-D structural solids Structural

Breadth
4 Structural shells elements
4 Structural beams elements Professional
4 Structural pipes elements
4 2-D, 3-D hyperelastic DesignSpace
4Coupled physics elements
42-D, 3-D thermal solids/shells
4Multi-point constraint
42-D, 3-D contact elements Depth
4Gasket elements
42-D, 3-D surface effect
4Combination elements
ANSYS Mechanical
4Element birth and death The ANSYS Mechanical product includes a full complement of nonlinear and linear elements,
Thermal Analysis material laws ranging from metal to rubber, and the most comprehensive set of solvers available.
4 Steady-state and transient
It can handle even the most complex assemblies—especially those involving nonlinear contact—and
4 Conduction
4 Convection is the ideal choice for determining stresses, temperatures, displacements and
4 Radiation contact pressure distributions on all your component and assembly designs. Plus, the ANSYS
4 Phase change
Mechanical software offers the added advantage of fundamental matrix coupled-field
4 Mass transport
Coupled Physics (or multiphysics) studies involving acoustic, piezoelectric, thermal/structural and thermal/electric
4 Thermal-structural analysis.
4 Acoustic-structural
4 Thermal-electric
4 Piezoelectric ANSYS StructuralTM
4 Acoustics The ANSYS Structural product addresses the unique concerns of structural simulation, without the
Optimization
need for a lot of extra tools. The ANSYS Structural software provides all the power of ANSYS
4 Design optimization
4 Topological optimization nonlinear structural capabilities—as well as all linear capabilities—in order to deliver the highest-
4 Probabilistic design quality, most-reliable structural simulation results available.
4 Variational technology
4 Parametric simulation
ANSYS Parametric Design ANSYS ProfessionalTM
LanguageTM (APDL) The ANSYS Professional software is an inexpensive, easy-to-use program for structural/
4 If-then-else constructs thermal analysis projects. Containing the power of the industry’s leading simulation tech-
4 Do-loop features
4 Array parameters nology, the ANSYS Professional product gives users high-level simulation capability without the
4 Array parameter operations need for high-level expertise. It comes complete with a full contingent of linear elements, significant
4 Macros nonlinearities, the ability to solve complex assemblies-including shell-to-solid-and the most
4 Trigonometric functions
requested set of solvers.
4 Parametric modeling
Additional Features
4 Cyclic symmetry analysis ANSYS DesignSpace®
4 Submodeling
The ANSYS DesignSpace product is an easy-to-use simulation software package that gives
4 Adaptive meshing
4 Component mode synthesis designers the tool to conceptualize, design and validate all their ideas right on their desktops. The
4 Substructring DesignSpace software, which is a subset of the ANSYS Professional product, enables users to
4 Rigid body dynamics (ADAMS)
easily perform real-world, static structural and thermal, dynamic, weight optimization, performance
optimization, vibration mode and safety factor simulations on all designs without the need for
advanced analysis knowledge.

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ANSYS Workbench
The ANSYS Workbench solution is a new-gener- Product Features
ation tool that offers an efficient and intuitive user
Solvers
interface, superior CAD integration, automatic
4 Iterative
meshing, access to model parameters, and access 4 Sparse direct
to functionality available in within the ANSYS 4 Frontal (wavefront)
Mechanical products, in one environment. 4 Distributed PCG*
4 Distributed JCG*
4 Distributed Algebraic Multi-Grid
The ANSYS Workbench interface is the integra- (AMG)*
tion tool for ANSYS, Inc.’s advanced physics 4 Domain Solver (DDS)*
4 Eigensolvers
capabilities that enable users to model all applica- • Block Lanczos
tions from very simple to very complex. The • Subspace
integration of these, and the user’s own, solver CAD Integration and Design Modeling • Reduced
• QR-Damped
technologies can take weeks out of a CAE process ANSYS Supported Platforms
by eliminating manual file transfer, result transla- 4 HP Alphaserver
tion and reanalysis time. 4 HP PA 8000 64-bit
4 HP Itanium2 IA-64
4 SGI 64-bit
CAE tools integration does not stop with one 4 IBM 64-bit
solution. The ANSYS Workbench interface pro- 4 Sun ULTRA III 64-bit
4 Sun UltraSPARC 64-bit
vides product performance results over the entire
4 Intel IA-32 LINUX
design domain, helping the user to understand the 4 Intel IA-64 LINUX
positive or negative impact of alternative designs 4 Intel IA-64 Windows
without performing additional simulations. 4 Intel IA-32 Windows
Workbench Supported Platforms
4 Intel IA-32 Windows
With the many engineering professionals in an 4 HP PA 8000 64-bit
organization, the ANSYS Workbench platform 4 Sun UltraSPARC 64-bit
4 Sun ULTRA III 64-bit
allows experts to easily capture knowledge in the
form of process wizards, vertical applications and Robust Automated Meshing
standard simulation procedures. This action allows
others to benefit from quickly adopting the shared
expert knowledge.

The integrated and automated ANSYS

Workbench tool can provide the simulation data
and product understanding needed to make quick-
er and less costly design decisions than with other
simulation tools or testing methods.

Advanced Simulation

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DesignSpace

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ANSYS Workbench Modules
Analysis
DesignModelerTM Static ü ü ü ü l
Transient ü ü ü
The DesignModeler tool is a
Modal ü ü ü ü l
Workbench application from ANSYS Spectrum ü ü ü
that provides modeling functions Harmonic ü ü ü l
Random Vibration ü ü
unique for simulation that include Buckling ü ü ü ü
detailed geometry creation, CAD Shape Optimization ü ü ü ü
Substructuring ü ü
geometry modification and concept
Structural Nonlinearity
model creation tools. Geometric ü ü ü l
Material ü ü l
Element ü ü ü l
DesignXplorerTM
Structural Contact/Common Boundaries
The DesignXplorer tool works from Surface-to-Surface ü ü ü ü l
within the Workbench solution to Node-to-Surface ü ü l
Node-to-Node ü ü ü
perform Robust Design analyses of Pretension (bolts, etc.) ü ü ü ü l
any Workbench simulation, including Interface (gaskets) ü ü
Spot Welds ü ü ü
those with CAD parameters. The
Thermal
DesignXplorer software allows users Conduction ü ü ü l
to study, quantify and graph various Convection ü ü ü l
Radiation ü ü
structural and thermal analysis Phase Change ü ü
responses on parts and assemblies. Coupled Physics
Thermal/Structural ü ü ü l
It incorporates both traditional and
Acoustics/Structural ü
nontraditional optimization through a Thermal/Electric ü ü
goal-driven optimization method. Piezoelectric ü
General
HTML Report Generator ü ü ü ü l
Fatigue Module Probabilistic Design System ü ü ü l
Submodeling ü ü ü
The Fatigue module adds the capa-
Design Optimization ü ü ü ü l
bility to simulate performance under CAD Parameter Control ü ü ü ü l
anticipated cyclic loading conditions Post-Processing
Contour Displays ü ü ü ü l
over the anticipated product life span.
Vector Displays ü ü ü l
The Fatigue module supports con- Isosurface Displays ü ü ü l
Slicing Planes and Animations ü ü ü ü l
stant amplitude, proportional loading
Results Listing ü ü ü ü l
and non-constant amplitude, propor- Pre-Processing
tional loading. Contour plots display Solid Modeling and Defeaturing ü ü ü l
Automatic Free-Meshing ü ü ü ü l
fatigue life, damage, factor of safety,
Automatic Hex-Meshing ü ü ü ü l
stress biaxiality, equivalent reversed Hex Dominant Meshing* ü ü ü ü l
stress and fatigue sensitivity. Solid Model Boundary Conditions ü ü ü ü l
Tabular / Function Boundary Conditions ü ü ü

* Available through the advanced structural meshing module (ANSYS Workbench Only)

For a complete list of ANSYS products, including add-on modules for Mechanical solutions, please
visit www.ansys.com/products.

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