ANSYS Structural Mechanics Update - Sheldon Imaoka

Improving Your Structural Mechanics Simulations with Release 14.
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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 Node Picking Lasso Selection
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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

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 Joint feature can now be used in Harmonics, Random vibration analysis Reaction Force & Moment results is now supported
Joints in Harmonic Analyses
Modal Superposition Transient
Reaction Forces in a Harmonic Analyses
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
Increased Accuracy
The smoothness of the mapped data depends on the density of the point cloud. Several weighting options are available to accommodate various data quality.
Triangulation versus Kriging
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Validating the Mapped Data
Visual tools have been implemented to control how well the data has been mapped onto the target structure
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
Courtesy of TU Chemnitz and GHOST Bikes GmbH
For complex geometries, the ANSYS Composite PrepPost tool is used and layer definitions are imported in the assembly model in ANSYS Mechanical.
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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.
Advanced Failure Analysis

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)
2D laminar composite
Initial crack
Start of damage (layer 1)
Progressed damage (layer 1)
Progressed damage (layer 3)
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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.
Design Assessment for Advanced User Defined Results

Design Assessment enable users to extend user defined results capabilities with: mathematical operators Systems
Expressions, including Coordinate systems, Units 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
Virtual topologies are handled more interactively through direct graphics interaction rather than tree objects.
User selects entities then applies VT operations
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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

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.
Performance Improvements
The applicability, robustness and efficiency of the contact has been improved for speed and accuracy expect a typical 2-5x speed-up
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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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
The Surface Projection Based Contact provides more accurate results (stresses, pressures, temperatures) and is now also available for bonded MPC contacts
Improved pressure results with surface projection

Contact accuracy and robustness
Adjust to touch causes rigid body motion and leaves a gap
New contact stabilization prevents rigid motion
Contact stabilization technique dampens relative motions between the contact and target surfaces for open contact
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Performance Further benefits from GPU boards
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Motivation
Taking advantage of the latest hardware is mandatory to solve your large models.
A combination of relatively new technologies provides a breakthrough means to reduce the time to solution
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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
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
Results Courtesy of MicroConsult Engineering, GmbH
Mold PCB
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
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

Stent modeling using shape memory alloys
behavior of fiber-reinforced tissue
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
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.
Advanced Nonlinear Methods

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.
Buckling of a pre-stressed stiffened container
Hot-Rolling Structural Steel Analysis with 3-D Rezoning
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Analyzing Fasteners under Large Deformations

Bolt pretension does not include large rotation effects. 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
Pre-tension element - Significant bending stress with large rotation
Joint Element - Stress appears without significant bending

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
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
Implicit and explicit solutions share the same user interface for a shortened learning curve and allow straightforward data exchange between disciplines
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New tetrahedral element
Self Piercing Rivet
The new tetrahedral element helps quickly model complex geometries for low velocity applications such as drop tests for mobile phones or nuclear equipments
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Fast Solutions Using 2-D Formulations

2D forming
Axisymmetric bullet model
Similarly to implicit analyses, 2D plain strain and axisymmetric formulations provide faster computation of explicit solutions
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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.
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.
SpaceClaim Direct Modeler

Preview sharing allow to control topology sharing before transferring the model into Workbench. Multi-face patch option increases the quality of repairs for missing faces.
Regular patch
Multi-face patch
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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 Trace of arm trajectory
Simplorer schematic of hydraulic circuit and control

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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Improving Your Structural Mechanics Simulations with Release 14.

2011 ANSYS, Inc.

August 25, 2011

What will Release 14.0 bring you?

2011 ANSYS, Inc.

August 25, 2011

Lets now take a closer look at some topics

2011 ANSYS, Inc.

August 25, 2011

MAPDL/WB Integration Finite Element Information Access within ANSYS Mechanical

2011 ANSYS, Inc.

August 25, 2011

2011 ANSYS, Inc.

August 25, 2011

2011 ANSYS, Inc.

August 25, 2011

Applying Loads and Orientations to Nodes

Nodal coordinate system used for solution

Results on Node Selections

Results with first layer of quads removed

Results on quads layers only

Restart and Direct FE Loads

Second Load step modified for restart

2011 ANSYS, Inc.

August 25, 2011

MAPDL/WB Integration Linear Dynamics in ANSYS Mechanical

2011 ANSYS, Inc.

August 25, 2011

Workbench and Mechanical enhancements

Modal Superposition Transient

Reaction Forces in a Harmonic Analyses

Physics Coupling Data Mapping

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Triangulation versus Kriging

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Validating the Mapped Data

Rotating Machines Studying Rotordynamics in ANSYS Mechanical

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Import/Export of Bearing Characteristics

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Specific Solver Settings

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Defining Material Properties

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