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ANSYS New Features 8.1.
Audience
The ANSYS New Features 8.1 course is recommended for analysts who perform ANSYS Mechanical and MultiPhysics analyses in both the Traditional ANSYS and ANSYS Workbench Environments. This material may be used as a basis for an on-site 1-day ANSYS New Features 8.1 Seminar for those companies that wish to cover only part of the syllabus.
Attendees learn how to use the major New Features of ANSYS 8.1
Recommended background knowledge
- Engineering degree or engineering experience
- Familiarity with the ANSYS 8.0 program (Course S1 or equivalent experience).
Topics Covered
Mechanical
- Nonlinear Analysis - Contact Set-up and Convergence, Element Technology and Transient Dynamics, Materials Technology and Curve Fitting
- Dynamics - Component Modal Synthesis, Material Damping and Linear Dynamics
- Usability and Miscellaneous - Undocumented Features (retired elements)
- Solvers - PCG, DPCG, Sparse
MultiPhysics
- Low Frequency Electromagnetics - Electric Field Elements, Current Loading for SOLID117
- High Frequency Electromagnetics - Phased Array Antenna Analysis
- MultiField Solver - Speed and Efficiency Enhancements
- FLOTRAN - Turbulence Models, Conjugate Heat Transfer
ANSYS Workbench Environment
- Start-up - Global Workbench Options Control, Direct Communication with ANSYS Inc
- Nonlinear Materials - Bilinear Stress-Strain, Multilinear Stress-Strain
- Solution Feedback and Results - Convergence History, Result Tracker, Contact Result Tool
- Meshing - Sphere of Influence, General Improvements, Contact Sizing, Poximity Control
- CAD Integration - Current CAD System Support, Smart Updates
- Remote Solving
- Miscellaneous - Pretension Bolt Loads, Mouse Usage, Point Mass Definition, Loads in Local CSYS, Contact Results in Solution Combinations,
- Geometry - DesignModeler Multiple Treeview Selection, Cross Section Improvements, Edge Direction Reversal, Improved Display Options, Automatic Dimension Moving, Surface Extension, Fill Feature, Surfaces Directly from Sketches, Improved Import Options,
- Beta Features - Mesh Matching, Plane Stress and Axisymmetric Solid, Beam Stress
- Low Frequency Magnetics Beta Features - Conductor Object with Voltage and Current Loading Magnetostatics Solution, 9.0 plans
DesignXplorer
- Coping with Topology Errors
- Independent Solution Type
- Bonded MPC Contact for DesignXplorer VT
- DesignXplorer VT Revised User Interface
- Design for Six Sigma Analysis
Parallel Performance for ANSYS
- Overview of Capabilities
- Memory Management
Sample Workshops
- ANSYS Workbench: DesignModeler - Beam Modelling
- ANSYS Workbench: DesignModeler - Bolted Assembly
- ANSYS Workbench: Simulation - Modal Analysis with Point Masses
- ANSYS Workbench: Nonlinear Static Analysis
- ANSYS Workbench: DesignXplorer - Hitch Optimisation
- ANSYS Workbench: Design for Six Sigma Crane Hook
- ANSYS Workbench: FE Modeler - Pedal Sub-assembly
- Tabular Loads as a Function of Local CSYS
- Contact Technology Diagnostics
- Component Mode Synthesis
- High Frequency Electromagnetics - Phased JRM Array Antennae
- Low Frequency Electromagnetics - COURC36 Serves as Field Source for SOLID117 Edge Flux Elements
- Low Frequency Electromagnetics - Transient Response of a Parallel Plate Capacitor with 2 Layers of Lossy Materials to Step Voltage
Objectives
After completing the course, analysts should be familiar with the new feature of ANSYS 8.1 appropriate to their own range of ANSYS expertise.
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