Customer Training Material

Lecture 1

Introduction

Introduction to MAPDL

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Welcome Customer Training Material

• Welcome to the “Introduction to ANSYS Mechanical APDL” (MAPDL)

training course!

• This training course covers the basics of MAPDL for use in

performing structural and thermal analyses.

• It is intended for new or occasional MAPDL users, regardless of the

CAD software used.

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Course Objectives Customer Training Material

• Basic FEA theory

• Introduction to the ANSYS Parametric Design Language (APDL)
• Introduction to the Mechanical APDL user interface
• Launching Options
• Geometry import options
• Meshing
• Applying loads and boundary conditions
• Solving
• Post-processing

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Course Materials Customer Training Material

• The Training Manual you have is an exact copy of the slides.

• Workshop descriptions and instructions are included in the

Workshop Supplement.

• Copies of the workshop files are available on the ANSYS Customer

Portal (www.ansys.com)

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Product Customer Training Material

• MAPDL is the current version of the original fully configured ANSYS

mechanical product
– sometimes referred to as “classic” ANSYS

• Standalone product with a self contained GUI and command line

driven interface
– focus of this course

• Can be launched independently or from the Workbench environment

• MAPDL elements and solvers are used for Workbench based

mechanical analysis products (ANSYS Mechanical)

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Capabilities Customer Training Material

• MAPDL has a full range of multiphysics capabilities, including:

– Structural
– Thermal
– Fluid
– Low- and High-Frequency Electromagnetics
– Electrostatics
– Direct and sequential coupled-field

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Licensing Customer Training Material

• Access to MAPDL capabilities is controlled by licensing

• Some available licenses are

– Multiphysics – full coupling of structural, thermal, CFD, acoustic and

electromagnetic simulations

– Mechanical – full linear and nonlinear structural and thermal analysis

capabilities

– Structural – linear and nonlinear structural capabilities

– Professional – limited structural and thermal capabilities

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Hyperlinks to subsequent Lectures Customer Training Material

2. Finite Element Analysis

3. Introduction to APDL
4. Getting Started
5. Basics
6. Solid Modeling
7. Creating an FEA Model
8. Defining Materials
9. Loads and BCs
10.Thermal
11.Post Processing

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