CHAPTER 1:

CHAPTER 2:
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
CHAPTER 3:
3.1
3.2
3.3

3.4
3.5

3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.1
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14

INTRODUCTION
FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
NEED FOR FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF FINITE ELEMENT
METHOD
ADVANTAGES OF FINITE ELEMENT
METHOD
LIMITATIONS OF
FEM
APPLICATIONS OF FEM
ANSYS
HISTORY
REVIEW OF EARLY ANSYS
APPLICATIONS
DEFINING A GEOMETRY USING ANSYS
REV.2
IN THE DESIGNING
PROCESS
ANSYS
MECHANICAL
FEATURES
3.5.1
MECHANICAL
3.5.2 EXPLICIT DYNAMICS
3.5.3
MULTIPHYSICS
3.5.4 FLUID STRUCTURE
INTERACTION
3.5.5 FLUID DYNAMICS
3.5.6 ELECTROMAGNETIC
DESIGN FOR SIX
SIGNS
MESHING(PROCESSING)
ACADEMIC
USEFUL
DEFINITION
BEFORE AN ANSYS SESSION
ANALYSIS
DISCIPLINE
THERMAL
ANALYSIS
TIME
DEPENDENCE
NON LINEARITY
3.14.1 GEOMETRIC NON LINEARITY
3.14.2 NON LINEAR MATERIAL

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3.16

3.17

CHAPTER 4:
CHAPTER 5:
CHAPTER 6:

BEHAVIOURS
IN ANSYS ARE
CHARACTERISED AS
ANSYS ANALYSIS
APPROACH
3.15.1 ANSYS PRE
PROCESSOR
3.15.2 ANSYS SOLUTION PROCESSOR
3.15.3 ANSYS GENERAL POST
PROCESSOR
3.15.4 ANSYS TIME HISTORY POST
PROCESSOR
ANSYS FILE STRUCTURE
3.16.1 DATA BASE
FILE
3.16.2 LOG FILE
3.16.3 ERROR
FILE
3.16.4 RESULTS
FILE
ANSYS
ADVANTAGES
3.17.1UN EQUALLED DEPTH
3.17.2 UN PARALLED
BREADTH
3.17.3 COMPREHENSIVE MULTI
PHYSICS
3.17.4 ENGINEERED
SCALABILITY
3.17.5 ADAPTIVE
ARCHITECTURE
PROCEDURE
RESULTS
CONCLUSION

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