ABOUT ANSYS

ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise is the flagship mechanical engineering software

solution that uses finite element analysis (FEA) for structural analysis using the
ANSYS Mechanical interface. It covers an enormous range of applications and
comes complete with everything you need from geometry preparation to optimization
and all the steps in between. With Mechanical Enterprise you can model advanced
materials, complex environmental loadings and industry-specific requirements in
areas such as offshore hydrodynamics and layered composite materials.

Ansys develops and markets finite element analysis software used to simulate
engineering problems.[7] The software creates simulated computer models of
structures, electronics, or machine components to simulate strength, toughness,
elasticity, temperature distribution, electromagnetism, fluid flow, and other
attributes.[7] Ansys is used to determine how a product will function with different
specifications, without building test products or conducting crash tests. [5] For
example, Ansys software may simulate how a bridge will hold up after years of
traffic, how to best process salmon in a cannery to reduce waste, or how to design a
slide that uses less material without sacrificing safety.[4]

Typically Ansys users break down larger structures into small components that are
each modeled and tested individually.[4] A user may start by defining the dimensions
of an object,[23] and then adding weight, pressure, temperature and other physical
properties.[23] Finally, the Ansys software simulates and analyzes movement, fatigue,
fractures, fluid flow, temperature distribution, electromagnetic efficiency and other
effects over time.[23]

Materials
A whole range of material models covering everything from hyperelastics, shape
memory alloys, soils, concrete, plastic and metallic structures can be accurately
modeled; you can even add user-defined material models if needed.

Material Designer can easily create representative volume elements (RVE’s) based
around lattice, fiber, weave or user-created geometries to facilitate multiscale
modeling of complex material structures.

Dynamics
Mechanical Enterprise can cover all of your needs for dynamic analysis, including —
for linear dynamics — modal, harmonic, spectrum response and random vibration
with pre-stress, and advanced solver options for rapid solutions. In the transient
domain both implicit and explicit solvers enable you to model time dependent
scenarios. The Rigid Body Dynamics capability lets you solve mechanisms rapidly. It
also enables you to include Component Mode Synthesis (CMS) parts to add
flexibility to models while still accelerating the simulation.
Acoustic simulations can be carried out to understand the vibro-acoustic behavior of
systems, with or without structural pre-loading. You can also create waterfall plots to
more conveniently understand results over varying frequencies.

Mechanical engineering software with nonlinear analysis techniques can include the
simulation of contact, geometric and material nonlinearities. Mechanical Enterprise
let’s you study the effects of all of these phenomena in unison or isolation.

The interface between parts simulated via contact can take into account friction,
heating, pressure and cohesion to increase the accuracy of the real behavior of
joints between parts, such as bolted connections, gaskets or other types of joints.

Advanced materials models for geomechanics, metals, hyperelastics and

composites, combined with user-defined materials, provide a complete solution for
nonlinear analysis. Metals, rubbers, soils, concrete, shape memory alloys and many
more materials are easily incorporated into simulations using test data or built in to
material model libraries.

For models with very large deformations, you can use nonlinear adaptive meshing to
automatically continue solutions where a traditional approach may struggle.

Composites
Composite structures can impart material strength while reducing the weight of a
component or product, resulting in substantial increases in energy efficiency.
Engineers can essentially design the material and its shape depending on the
materials used (polymers, carbon fibers, etc.) and the physical structure and
sequence of the layers in the composite.

Mechanical Enterprise has both material and modeling capabilities to model

composites with confidence. Layered composite structures can be modeled in the
same way as they are manufactured: Layers are added to the model, and the
draping, orientation and shear forces encountered by the fabric are captured and, if
needed, turned into a 3-D solid model.

Post-processing can analyze failure criteria for a whole model in one step, identifying
the failure mechanism, along with the element and layer of the model in which the
failure occurs.

Modeling layered composites either in shell or solids, and with or without a core
material, can be carried out with confidence. Engineers can combine composite
parts with other, non-composite parts in one simulation to build whole assembly
models for real engineering insight.