Analysis Design Productivity Limited
Dynamics.
Audience
The Dynamics Course is for experienced ANSYS users who wish to enhance their technical capabilities by gaining knowledge of how to perform structural dynamics calculations.
Recommended background knowledge
- Engineering degree or engineering experience.
- Familiarity with the ANSYS program (Course S_I1 or equivalent experience).
Topics Covered
- Modal Analysis (definition & purpose, terminology & concepts, procedure)
- Harmonic Analysis
- Transient Dynamic Analysis
- Restarting an Analysis
- Spectrum Analysis
- Mode Superposition
- Modal Analysis - Advanced Topics (prestressed modal analysis, modal cyclic symmetry, large deflection modal analysis)
Sample Workshops
- Calculate the Natural Frequencies and Mode Shapes of 'Galloping Gertie', The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, and Simulate the Wind Storm and Vortex Shedding which Collapsed the Bridge by performing a Harmonic Analysis
- Calculate the Natural Frequencies and Modes of Vibration of a Plate with a Hole, Step-by-Step
- Perform Modal and Pre-Stressed Analysis of a Perforated Disc
- Determine the Natural Frequencies and Modes of Vibration of a Spiral Bevel Gear using Cyclic Symmetry
- Determine the Harmonic Response of Fixed-Fixed Beam Carrying Rotating Machines
- Perform a Transient Analysis of a Bouncing Block
- Determine the Displacements and Stresses in a Workbench due to an Acceleration Spectrum
- Perform Modal and Random Vibration Analysis of a Model Airplane Wing
Objectives
- Be able to calculate natural frequencies and mode shapes of linear elastic structures (modal analyses)
- Be able to analyse the response of structures under the action of time-varying loads (transient analyses)
- Be able to analyse the response of structures with loads varying sinusoidally (harmonic response analyses).
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