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Combining APDL With ANSYS Workbench For Structural Simulations PDF
Combining APDL With ANSYS Workbench For Structural Simulations PDF
Whether you are a longtime ANSYS processes and to efficiently interact benefit from technologies that once
Mechanical APDL user wondering, with external tools such as CAD were available only to CFD users, and
“What is so good about ANSYS systems. It provides a foundation for vice versa. The ANSYS Workbench
Workbench that everyone suggests I easy multiphysics simulation and Mechanical application has proven
use it?” or an ANSYS Workbench user enhanced company-wide communi- to be a very efficient way to quickly
thinking, “I can’t find the button, so cation of simulation results. Those set up mechanical analyses. Auto-
how can I use this feature?” you can performing a structural simulation use mated contact detection is probably
make better use of ANSYS mech- a graphical interface (called the the most noticeable advantage as
anical solutions by combining all of ANSYS Workbench Mechanical compared to the long-standing
the available technologies. Doing so application) that employs a tree-like ANSYS Mechanical APDL interface.
will allow you to achieve process navigation structure to define all ANSYS Workbench includes auto-
compression while performing more- parts of their simulation: geometry, mation capabilities in addition to those
advanced simulations. connections, mesh, loads, boundary provided by APDL. For example, when
APDL — ANSYS Parametric conditions and results. looking at design variations, a user can
Design Language — is the primary By utilizing the ANSYS Workbench easily perform geometric variations
language used to communicate platform, the user saves time in many by directly modifying the parametric
with the ANSYS Mechanical APDL of the tasks required to perform a CAD models. In the case of coupled
solver. This scripting language can be simulation. The bidirectional links analyses such as thermal–stress or
used to automate common tasks or with all major CAD systems offer a prestressed modal analyses, all data
even to build a parametric model. very efficient way to update CAD shared among the various simulations
APDL encompasses a wide range of geometries along with the design are handled automatically, allowing the
other features, such as if-then-else parameters. The meshing tools user to focus on designing a better
constructs, do-loops, and vector and available in ANSYS Workbench are product rather than having to worry
matrix operations. based on some of the best algor- about file management.
The ANSYS Workbench platform ithms ANSYS has developed — for A s a n A N S Y S Wo r k b e n c h
allows users to create new, faster example, structural users can now Mechanical application user, you may
This new era of smart products doesn’t seem so smart if you try to design things
the same old way. Product design leaders rely on ANSYS engineering simulation
software for analyzing the interplay of electromagnetic emissions, structural
mechanics and fluid dynamics.