Analysis Design Productivity Limited
Substructuring.
Audience
The Substructuring course is for experienced ANSYS users who wish to take advantage of the substructuring techniques within ANSYS to significantly reduce the computing resources required to perform many types of analysis.
Recommended background knowledge
- Engineering degree or engineering experience.
- Familiarity with ANSYS (Course S_I1 or equivalent experience).
Topics Covered
- What is substructuring?
- When to use substructures
- Substructuring theory, assumptions and restrictions
- Basic substructuring procedure
- The files used in substructuring
- Loading a substructure
- Multiple substructures
- Substructures in dynamics analysis
- Accuracy considerations
- Nested substructures
- Thermal substructures
- Writing your own superelement matrices
Sample Workshops
- Solve a contact problem using a superelement for the linear portion of the model
- Use multiple superelement load vectors with multiple expansion passes to efficiently analyse three load cases
- Use multiple reflected and translated superelements to give a detailed linear analysis of a repeated structure
Objectives
- Understand ANSYS substructuring techniques
- Be able to model many non-linear problems more efficiently
- Be able to use superelements in dynamics analysis
- Be able to use multiple substructures and multiple load vectors to save time in many types of analysis
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