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Structures | Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Software
Ansys software for structural analysis allows you to solve your most complex structural engineering projects and make superior design decisions more quickly.
Ansys FEA (Structures) Software
FEA Finite element analysis software from Ansys provides engineers the ability to automate and customize simulations and even parameterize them for many design scenarios.
- Persistent, Dependable, Accurate Solver Technology.
- Powerful Nonlinear and Linear Solvers.
- Easy to Use, Multi-Purpose Tool.
- Dynamic, Integrated Platform.
You can easily connect Ansys Structural Mechanics software to other physics tools for even better realism, predicting performance and behavior of even the most complex projects.
What Utility does FEA Software Provide?
Practical Application | Ansys FEA Overview
Strength Analysis
Understanding component strength is needed to determine a product’s lifecycle, performance, and failure modes. As noted, several factors dictate strength requirements for design and materials. This includes, thermal stress, pressure conditions, bolt tension, mechanical loading, and rotational acceleration.
Composite Materials
Composite materials are versatile, strong, and light, making them suitable for manufacturing many types of products. Carbon fiber, for example, is often used in aerospace and automotive projects. In fact, is now used more often in applications such as musical instruments and bicycle frames. The properties of composites, however, make simulating a challenge.
Impact Simulation
The Ansys structural mechanics software suite models impact between two or more bodies, including explicit dynamics, mechanical, and rigid body dynamics. Critically, allowing engineers to determine damage and deformation. In addition, users can solve high-speed interactions and complex contact with Explicit Dynamics, and use RBD for no deformation or irrelevant deformation.
Vibration Analysis
Ansys Mechanical simulations help you understand how your designs will respond to vibrations from phenomena such as brake squeal, earthquakes, transport, and acoustic and harmonic loads. In addition, Mechanical gives you a platform for single physic and multiphysics simulations to help you overcome your toughest vibration challenges.
Design Optimization
To begin an analysis, engineers first simulate performance of a base design. The model can then be re-used to examine different loading, design parameters, variations in environmental conditions, and changes in manufacturing. You can perform all types of simulation in one environment with Ansys DesignXplorer and determine the best design for all conditions.
High-Performance Computing (HPC)
Solving structural mechanics models with a high level of detail requires long solve times on a single CPU core (i.e. those with a mesh size over 500k DOF). Single-core CPUs don’t access sufficient computer memory for larger models (more than 10 MDOF). Solution, choose parallel processing with Ansys HPC and significantly reduce your solution time.
Thermal Analysis
As the envelope continues to be pushed further by the drive for lighter, more efficient, and smaller designs, heat and thermal management become more critical. Clearly, engineers need more tools for accurate simulation for thermal models that include not just radiation, convection, and conduction loads. But, also effects of power losses and thermal energy pipe flows and friction.
Topology Optimization
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. Now, users can easily perform light weighting 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 optimize your design for 3-D printing. In addition, determining any potential stresses or distortions in the design so they can be corrected upfront. And finally, predict the microstructure of the part based on the thermal history during fabrication.
Design for Durability
To reduce the costs of warranties and improve reliability, engineers need to design durable products. Using Ansys FEA software for fatigue analysis, you can avoid unexpected failures and warranty expenses by learning how designs behave across time and increased load cycles.
Rigid Body Dynamics
Simulating system motion by assuming flexible parts and performing customary finite elements analysis is expensive computationally. Moreover, the Ansys Rigid Body Dynamics add-on module offers a more efficient and fast solution via robust, yet affordable rigid multibody dynamics analysis.
Hydrodynamics
Offshore structures often have specific design requirements. When simulation of effects and loading on structural response is a design requirement, use Ansys software to reproduce load conditions and responses for projects. In addition, utilize from high-fidelity simulations with all fluid loading environment aspects to simple models for truss-type structures.
Ansys FEA Software Suite & Product Line-Up
Ansys Mechanical
Mechanical by Ansys is a finite element analysis (FEA) technique for analyzing complex product architectures and resolving difficult mechanical problems. In addition, you can use Ansys Mechanical to simulate real-world actions of components and subsystems.
Ansys LS-DYNA
Ansys LS-DYNA simulates the response of materials to short duration severe loading. As of 2022, it is the single most used explicit dynamics simulation program worldwide. The software is best suited for the experienced and highly technical user.
Ansys Sherlock
Gain quick, accurate electronic hardware life predictions with Ansys Sherlock Automated Design Analysis. In fact, Sherlock is the only PoF (Reliability Physics/Physics of Failure) software that provides insight at each the system, board, and component levels.
Ansys Motion
Ansys Motion is a third-generation engineering solution based on an advanced multibody dynamics solver. In addition, Motion enables fast and accurate analysis of rigid and flexible bodies in real-time.
Ansys 3D Additive Prep
Simplifying 3D Printing Part Orientation – engineers can determine the suitable orientation using heatmapping technology to orient components and specify build parameters.
Ansys Additive Print
Enhance ROI by Building Precision Parts – Rapidly check for distortion, stress and strain regions (static or dynamic), predict blade crash, and export for advanced post processing analysis.
Mechanical Enterprise
Enterprise intuitively provides in-depth analyses of structural and coupled-field behavior in a highly productive, and realistic environment for optimal engineering.
Mechanical Premium
Ansys Mechanical Premium is an FEA tool that gives you greater engineering insight with advanced nonlinear stress simulations and comprehensive linear dynamics.
Mechanical Pro
Ansys Mechanical Pro is FEA software that provides robust general-purpose stress, thermal, vibration and fatigue simulations for fast and accurate solutions.