COURSE DESCRIPTION

FEA AND ANSYS

o What is FEA?

o About ANSYS

o ANSYS Basics

STARTING ANSYS

o ANSYS Workbench Environment

o The GUI

o Graphics and Picking

o The Database and Files

o Saving Files

o Exiting ANSYS

o File Types

GENERAL ANALYSIS PROCEDURE

o Overview

o Preliminary Decisions

o Preprocessing

o Solution

o Post processing

INTRODUCTION TO ANSYS MODELING

o Direct Generation vs. Solid Modeling

o Direct Generation

o Creating nodes and elements

o Filling between nodes

o Setting Element Attributes

 SOLID MODELING

o Bottom up

o Using key points

o Using lines, splines & arcs

o Using areas and volumes (arbitrary)

o Top Down

FROM PRIMITIVES

o Creating rectangle, circle, polygon, block, cylinder, prism, sphere, cone and

o torus.

o Concepts of hard points, line fillets and area fillets.

MODELING WITH BOOLEAN OPERATIONS

o Intersect

o Add

o Subtract

o Overlap

o Glue

o Divide

TYPES OF COORDINATE SYSTEMS

o Global & Local

o Active coordinate system

INTRODUCTION TO WORKING PLANES

o Creating a new working plane

o Moving and rotating the working plane

MODIFY / TRANSFORMATION COMMANDS

o Copy

o Reflect

o Move/ Modify

o Scale

MODEL CREATION BY EXTRUSION

o Sweeping key points along a trajectory to create lines

o Revolving key points about an axis to create arcs or full circles, normal to

o The axis

o Sweeping lines or splines along a trajectory to get areas

o Revolving lines, splines or arcs about an axis to create cylindrical areas.

o Giving depth to an area to create a volume, normal to the area

o Creating a volume with tapered faces

o Sweeping an area along a trajectory to create a volume

o Revolving an area about an axis to create a cylindrical volume

o Extending Lines

o Modifying an existing line by extending that line to a desired length

o Creating a new line on the basis of an existing line, where the existing line

o Will not be modified.

o Meshing

INTRODUCTION TO ELEMENTS

o One Dimensional Element

o Two Dimensional Elements

o Two and Half Dimensional Elements

o Three Dimensional Elements

o Quadrilateral Elements

o Triangular Elements

o Brick Elements

o Tetrahedral Elements

o Shell Elements
 INTRODUCTION TO MESHING

o Mapped and free meshing

o How to control mesh size?

o How to use Mesh Tool?

o Concatenation and its significance

o Clearing mesh and re-meshing

o Some useful meshing techniques

NUMBERING CONTROLS

o Merging Coincident Points

o Compressing Item Numbers

o Setting Start Number & viewing Start Number Status

o Adding Number Offset

o What is coupling and how to create coupled sets of nodes Static Structural Analysis
Modal Analysis Thermal Analysis.

ANSYS WORKBENCH

o DesignModeler

o Basics of Finite Element Analysis(Optional)

o Introduction to FEA

o Stages of FEA

o ANSYS Workbench Interface

o Getting Started with ANSYS Workbench

o Project Page and File Management

o DesignModeler

o Why DesignModeler?

o Graphical User Interface

o Design Principles

o Parameters in DesignModeler

o Concept Modeling

o Advanced modeling features

o Simulation

o Introduction

o Analysis disciplines

o Planning of Analysis

o Simulation Basics

o Graphical User Interface

o Idealization

o Material Parameters

o Descritization: Mesh Control, Mesh Study, Mesh Quality.

o Boundary Conditions

o Analysis settings

o Post-processing

o Structural and Thermal Analysis

o Buckling Analysis

o Modal Analysis

o Thermal Analysis

o Non-linear statics