ANSYS structural simulation has a powerful pool of solvers used by engineers to analyze and predict the behavior of structures under various loading conditions. It employs advanced finite element analysis (FEA) techniques to simulate how structures respond to different loads, such as mechanical forces, thermal effects, and fluid pressures.
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Software for Structural Engineering
Engineers Gain Answers Fast and With Confidence
Ansys Mechanical empowers users to address intricate structural engineering challenges and enhance design decision-making processes swiftly. Leveraging the suite's finite element analysis (FEA) solvers, you can tailor and streamline solutions for structural mechanics issues, while also parameterizing them to explore numerous design scenarios. Ansys Mechanical offers a versatile array of analysis tools, spanning from preprocessing to analysis and facilitating integration with additional physics for heightened accuracy. Its user-friendly and adaptable interface ensures engineers of varying proficiency levels can swiftly obtain reliable answers, fostering confidence in their analyses.
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Explicit Simulation software
Predict the behavior of structure for complex and severe loadings
Ansys LS-DYNA is the global leader in the field of explicit simulation program and can simulate the response of materials to short duration events like crash, explosion, bird strike, penetration and Impact. Possessing the complex material models, advanced element technology, contact formulations and fast multiphysics solvers, ANSYS LS-DYNA can address highly challenging engineering problems.
VIEW PRODUCT Multi Body Dynamics (MBD) simulation software
Accurate MBD system validation
ANSYS Motion is a powerful engineering simulation software designed to analyze the dynamics and kinematics of mechanical systems. It offers comprehensive tools for simulating the motion and behavior of various mechanical components, ranging from simple mechanisms to complex multi-body systems.
VIEW PRODUCT Metal stamping simulation software
Sheet metal forming simulation & Validation in one environment
ANSYS Forming provides a comprehensive solution for simulating metal stamping processes, offering an integrated workflow that covers all stages of die design and analysis within a single platform, ensuring swift solve times. By utilizing ANSYS Forming, users can attain peak performance while upholding efficiency and precision, leading to increased productivity and cost savings through minimized die iterations and redesign efforts.
VIEW PRODUCT Structural reliability Software for Electronics
Predict life of electronics from Board to Enclosure level
ANSYS Sherlock utilizes its physics based solver to transform the reliability analysis for electronic hardware, providing rapid and accurate life predictions across component, board, and system levels in the initial design stages. With Sherlock, designers liberate themselves from the repetitive 'test-fail-fix-repeat' cycle, equipped with the capability to intricately simulate silicon-metal layers, semiconductor packaging, printed circuit boards (PCBs), and assemblies.
VIEW PRODUCT Multipurpose fatigue life prediction software
Product life estimation for real life scenarios and loadings
Ansys nCode DesignLife seamlessly integrates with Ansys Mechanical to deliver dependable fatigue life assessments. Leveraging finite element analysis (FEA) results from Ansys Mechanical and Ansys LS-DYNA, it computes damage accumulation due to cyclic loading, providing insights into a product's anticipated lifespan. This enables swift evaluation of diverse materials and alternative geometries for new designs, facilitating optimization tailored to the product's projected usage—well in advance of prototype construction or costly testing.
VIEW PRODUCT Non-linear dynamic analysis software
Predict structure's response under short duration, high impact situations
Ansys Autodyn excels in simulating the response of materials to short-duration, severe mechanical loadings, high pressures, and even extreme conditions such as explosions. It provides advanced solution methods without sacrificing ease of use, allowing for the efficient simulation of complex material responses like large deformations or failures. It is integrated within Ansys Workbench and features its own native user interface, which is renowned for its ease of use, helping users to achieve accurate results with minimal time and effort.
VIEW PRODUCT Additive manufacturing insight tool
Comprehensive and scalable additive solution to minimize the risk of Additive manufacturing process while ensuring high quality certifiable parts
Ansys Additive Suite is a comprehensive solution for the entire additive manufacturing workflow, which includes design for additive manufacturing (DfAM), validation, print design, process simulation, and exploration of materials. It encompasses a range of tools such as Additive Prep, Additive Print, Additive Science, and Workbench Additive, providing critical insights required for a successful additive manufacturing process. This suite helps in avoiding build failure and ensures that parts are designed accurately to specifications. It also includes capabilities for topology and lattice optimization, metal PBF process simulation, distortion compensation, build failure prediction, material analysis, and predictions of melt pool, porosity, and microstructure, among others.
VIEW PRODUCT Acoustics Sound Design and Analysis
Enables oneself to listen to, analyze and design sound sources based on real recordings or acoustic simulation results.
Ansys Sound is a post-processing tool that allows engineers to analyze and optimize their product noise using desired sound quality criteria and listening tests. Innovative time-frequency analysis and processing functions are available for isolating and modifying sound components and assessing the influence of sounds on human perception. Ansys Sound reproduces the 3D sound in-simulator and in-vehicle, including tools to tune Active Sound (ICE) or electric vehicles (EVs).
VIEW PRODUCTSimulate the nonlinear dynamics of solids, fluids, gas, and their interaction. Autodyn includes finite element solvers for computational structural dynamics, and mesh-free particle solvers for high velocities, large deformation, and fragmentation. It also features multi-solver coupling for multi-physics solutions, including coupling between FE, CFD, and SPH, as well as a wide suite of material models that incorporate constitutive response and coupled thermodynamics.
Featuring embedded libraries boasting a vast array of over one million parts, Sherlock swiftly transforms electronic computer-aided design (ECAD) files into computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element analysis (FEA) models. Each meticulously crafted model encompasses precise geometries and material properties, seamlessly translating stress information into validated time-to-failure predictions.
Crashworthiness simulation in LS-DYNA finds application across the automotive industry, including vehicle design, crash testing, regulatory compliance, and safety analysis. Automotive manufacturers use LS-DYNA to assess vehicle crashworthiness, optimize safety features, and meet stringent regulatory requirements for occupant protection.
Drop test and impact simulation in LS-DYNA provide engineers with a valuable tool for assessing the structural integrity and performance of products subjected to dynamic loading conditions. By leveraging advanced numerical techniques and robust material models, organizations can optimize designs, enhance product durability, and minimize the risk of failure due to impact events in various industrial applications.
Simulate heat conduction, convection and radiation across assemblies and simulate the effect of temperature resulted by the various modes of heat transfer on the structure by evaluating thermal stress.
Simulate the behavior of structures for modal analysis, random vibration, seismic vibration and Harmonic vibration.
Ansys Topology Optimization broadens the horizons of design process performance goals. Whether you aim to decrease aircraft weight or enhance the design of a civil structure, Ansys Topology Optimization in Mechanical offers avenues for innovative design with rapidity and effectiveness.
Define composite materials, fabrics and stack-ups and optimize product integrity.
Simulate the life parameters of the structure when it is exposed to repetitive cyclic load.
Simulate the behavior of structures for static or transient loads and understand the load carrying capacity by evaluating stresses & strains.
ANSYS 3D DESIGN RESOURCES & EVENTS
Learn how to effectively prepare and simplify CAD geometry using Ansys SpaceClaim to accelerate meshing and improve solver performance across structural and fluid simulations.
REQUEST TECHNICAL PAPER This paper explores topology optimisation strategies within Ansys Discovery, covering setup, load case definition, and interpretation of results for lightweight structural components.
REQUEST TECHNICAL PAPER A practical guide to importing, repairing, and translating geometry from CATIA, SolidWorks, NX, STEP, and IGES formats into Ansys SpaceClaim without loss of design intent.
REQUEST TECHNICAL PAPERStructural simulations for turbomachinery application enable engineers to assess factors such as stress distribution, fatigue life, and natural frequencies of blades, shafts, casings, and other structural elements.
Structural simulation of chassis components to evaluate factors such as stress distribution, deformation, and fatigue life. Engineers simulate loading conditions such as static loads, dynamic loads, and road-induced vibrations to assess chassis performance. By optimizing material selection and geometry, engineers can enhance chassis stiffness, strength, and durability.
Analyzing the strength of composite materials used in turbine blades requires a comprehensive approach that considers various factors such as material properties, layup configurations, loading conditions, and failure criteria. ANSYS provides advanced simulation tools that are well-suited for conducting composite strength analysis for turbine blades.
Using ANSYS Mechanical, engineers can effectively perform topology optimization for machine frames, leading to the design of lightweight and structurally efficient structures that meet or exceed performance requirements. This approach enables the development of innovative and optimized machine frame designs that can improve overall system performance, reduce material usage, and lower manufacturing costs.
Using ANSYS Mechanical, engineers can effectively analyze the harmonic vibration behavior of motor systems, identify potential issues such as resonance or excessive vibration, and optimize the design to improve performance, reliability, and efficiency. This approach enables the development of motor systems that meet stringent performance requirements and operate reliably under various operating conditions.
Using ANSYS Mechanical, predict the behavior of engine components under the combined effects of thermal gradients and vibrational loading.
Using powerful features of LS-DYNA like material modeling, contact algorithms, element technology, Automotive crash simulation gives you accurate results giving you the confidence on par with the field testing.
ANSYS Motion facilitates kinematic analysis of mechanisms, such as linkages, cams, gears, and pulleys. It allows engineers to study the motion characteristics, velocities, and accelerations of individual components within a mechanical system.
Engineers can use ANSYS Motion to simulate the motion control of robotic systems, manipulators, and actuators. It helps in designing and tuning control algorithms to achieve desired performance objectives, such as trajectory tracking and stability.
Autodyn helps in design evaluation of safety systems for military, space, energy and nuclear applications by predicting blast/high impact behaviors.
Autodyn predicts the drop & impact scenario to assess the safety of the part under consideration.
End-to-end workflow assisting additive manufactured parts from geometry creation till part validation.
Separate components based on tachiometric information, Create dataset for driving simulator, Assess sound quality.
Original recording, electric and electromagnetic noise.
Isolate based on order analysis, mix each isolated sound source, blade passing frequency, buzz saw noise.
Sound quality evaluation.
Ansys 3D Design is a suite of tools — including SpaceClaim and Discovery — that lets engineers create, modify, and simulate 3D geometry directly within the Ansys simulation environment, eliminating the need to switch between separate CAD and analysis packages.
Licensed users can download Ansys SpaceClaim and Discovery through the Ansys Customer Portal. Contact CADFEM APAC to obtain a licence or request a free trial for evaluation.
Download the installer from the Ansys Customer Portal, run the setup wizard, and enter your licence server details. Detailed system requirements and step-by-step guides are available in the Ansys Installation Guide included with the download.
Ansys offers free self-paced courses on Ansys Learning Hub, along with official documentation and video tutorials. CADFEM APAC also provides instructor-led training tailored to your industry and workflow.
Use File → Save As to export geometry in formats such as STEP, IGES, ACIS, Parasolid, STL, and more. SpaceClaim also supports direct export to downstream Ansys solvers via Workbench.
Ansys Discovery generates an automatic mesh in real time as you run simulations. For refined control, switch to Refine Mode where you can define mesh sizing, inflation layers, and element types before solving.
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