Discover tips and tricks as well as best practices to facilitate everyday simulation.

DAY 1

In this training course, you will learn to control Ansys Discovery via the script language Python: from geometry to simulation.

DAY 1

• Recording and debugging scripts
• Customization of the structure tree
• Creating shells, beams and freeform surfaces
• Geometry editing with user-defined presets

DAY 2

• Working with the dialog tools
• Speed up design studies with script parameters
• Automating simulation setup
• Standardize result evaluations

Learn how to control automated geometry creation and model preparation using the Python scripting language.

DAY 1

• Recording your own scripts 
• Universal scripts for design studies and optimizations 
• Tips for advanced scripting
• Rename and sort objects in the structure tree

DAY 2

• Creation of beam structures via Excel
• Automated geometry preparation
• Creating user-defined patterns
• Working with shell models

Learn how to write your own scripts: from automatic geometry selection to standardized reports.

DAY 1

• Recording: an Easy Way to Producing Your First Script
• IronPython: Ansys Mechanical’s Script Language
• From Simple Recording to Flexible Scripts
• Smart Geometry Recognition

DAY 2

• Accessing the Structure Tree
• Automated Postprocessing
• Generating Standardized Reports
• Areas to Apply Mechanical Scripting

Understanding linear and non-linear contacts in order to improve the efficiency and accuracy of assembly simulation.

DAY 1

• Contact calculation in structural mechanics
• Contacts in Ansys Mechanical
• Contact detection in the solver
• Evaluation of contact results

DAY 2

• Contact formulation
• Contact stiffness and penetration
• Workshop on nonlinear contact & convergence
• Initial contact condition and rigid body movement

DAY 3

• Contact types
• Bonded contact
• Contacts and connections
• Best practice in contact modeling

Learn how to simulate quasi-static processes (forming/joining) and dynamic processes (drop test/crash) with explicit LS-Dyna solvers.

DAY 1

• Theory and Workbench LS-DYNA
• Analysis settings and postprocessing
• Loads, boundary conditions and rigid bodies
• LS-PREPOST and keyword snippets

DAY 2

• Contacts and body interaction
• Contact settings
• Quasi-static analysis and result verification
• Engineering data and material models

DAY 3

• Meshing and element formulations
• Connections
• Practical example: “cell phone” drop test
• Overview of advanced topics

Static strength and fatigue strength verification according to FKM and the use of FEM for automated workflows

DAY 1

• Principles of the FKM guideline
• Theory of structural strength assessment of non-welded components
• Introduction to automated strength assessment with FKM inside Ansys
• Advanced structural engineering assessment – plastic form factor

DAY 2

• Theory of fatigue strength assessment of non-welded components
• Advanced fatigue strength assessment
• Introduction to stress concepts for weld seam evaluation
• Theory of structural engineering assessment of welded components

DAY 3

• Examples of structural engineering assessment of welded components
• Theory of fatigue assessment of welded components
• Examples of fatigue assessment of welded components
• Workshop: discussion of own examples

Estimation of the maximum sustainable load cycles for simple scenarios within the usual Mechanical environment

DAY 1

• High cycle fatigue – strength assessment according to stress-life approach for high-cycle loads
• Low cycle fatigue – strength assessment according to strain-life approach for low-cycle loads
• Vibration fatigue – fatigue strength assessment for vibration loads
• Non-proportional loads – working with superposed load cases

Learn how to perform thermal analyses in Ansys Mechanical: best practice for heating and cooling tasks and determination of thermal stresses.

DAY 1

• Planning thermal analyses
• Temperature distribution within components and assemblies
• Stationary heat balance: heat emission to the environment
• Thermal strains and stresses

DAY 2

• Transient heat balance: heating and cooling processes
• Convection according to VDI heat atlas
• Radiation between bodies
• Modeling of thermally relevant components

DAY 3

• Interactions between temperature and deformations
• Heating and cooling processes: melting and solidification
• Workshop Thermal Optimization
• Advanced thermal calculation possibilities

Learn how to examine parameter influences, robustly optimize properties, process signals and integrate processes in Ansys.

DAY 1

• Ansys optiSLang Basics
• The Scenery: optiSLang Workflow GUI
• Sensitivity study: theory, application and metamodels
• optiSLang Postprocessing in detail

DAY 2

• Optimization of product properties
• Integrate characteristic curves into optiSLang
• Signal Metamodeling (S-MoP)
• What can be determined from read-in data?

DAY 3

• The path to stochastics - considering scatter in a robustness analysis
• Introduction to Statistics on Structures
• Tips for daily use and special workflows in optiSLang
• Outlook: Ansys Minerva and optiSLang

Automatic generation and validation of an optimal material distribution in each design space under structural mechanical conditions.

• Load-sensitive optimized Component Design
• Appropriate Formulation of the Optimization Task
• Understanding Goals and Restrictions
• Optimization considering Manufacturing Process

DAY 2

• Load Cases and Validation
• Reverse Engineering: The Way back into CAD geometry
• Stress Reduction
• Overview: Linear Dynamics, Lattice Structures and Assemblies

Learn how to create effective FE models and systematically check your simulation results for plausibility.

DAY 1

• Quality in simulation
• Understand and represent stress states
• Systematic errors of the FEM
• Validation and verification

DAY 2

• Load assumptions
• Behavior and plausibility checks
• Idealization, modeling and evaluation
• Verification and optimization of the mesh

This course provides you an introduction to the world of nonlinearities and enables you to understand convergence behavior.

DAY 1

• Nonlinear task classes and solution methods
• Ansys Solver Settings
• Geometric nonlinearities
• Stability problems

DAY 2

• Nonlinear Materials – Plasticity
• Nonlinear Materials – Hyperelasticity
• Contact Modelling
• Convergence, performance, accuracy

Creating suitable meshes for corresponding analysis types, material classes, and requisite result accuracy.

DAY 1

• Understanding meshing in Mechanical Workbench
• Meshing tailored to deformation analysis
• Meshing for stress evaluation
• Appropriate meshing in contact areas

DAY 2

• Efficient meshing of thin-walled components I
• Efficient meshing of thin-walled components II
• Connection techniques between shell and solid components
• Mesh connectivity – model assembly

From set square and calculation assessment to Excel for fatigue and endurance calculation using FEM.

DAY 1

• FEM for fatigue strength
• Structural strength assessment
• Fatigue strength assessment
• S-N fatigue curves

DAY 2

• Variable amplitude loading
• Damage accumulation and fatigue life estimation
• Overview of advanced methods
• Realistic exercise example

Learn how you can significantly increase the accuracy of your simulations by considering nonlinear rolling bearing characteristics.

DAY 1

• Requirements for rolling bearing simulation
• Static analysis - Correctly depict the force flow in the overall model
• Use and expand bearing library information
• Rolling bearings in linear dynamics

Learn how to design and optimize state-of-the-art hydrodynamic journal bearings so that bearing damage can be avoided.

DAY 1

• Theoretic backgrounds on hydrodynamic (HD) bearings
• Tribo-X inside Ansys
• Elasto-hydrodynamic (EHD) bearing analysis – influence of elastic deformations
• Mixed friction stressed bearings

DAY 2

• Thermo-elasto-hydrodynamic (TEHD) bearing analysis – influence of thermal effects
• Calculation of dynamically operated bearings – transient simulations
• Bearing shape and position deviations
• Additional functions

Learn how to perform a systematic stress analysis in accordance with VDI 2230 in the correct manner within your simulation environment.

DAY 1

• Bolts as detachable connection elements
• Principles underlying the VDI 2230 guidelines (Sheets 1 and 2)
• Generating geometric models of bolt connections
• Bolt connection in FE simulation

DAY 2

• Deepening your understanding of the VDI 2230 guidelines
• FE model classes I-IV
• Modeling contacts for bolt connections
• Working productively on real models

DAY 3

• Analytical verification calculation in accordance with VDI 2230
• Using the FE method to perform verification calculations relating to bolts
• Verification using the bolt assessment feature within Ansys
• Additional methods for analyzing bolts using the FE method

ANSYS Mechanical's advanced options for the watchmaking industry and application to watch part examples.

DAY 1

• Simulating watch springs with Ansys Mechanical 
• Simulation and geometrical considerations 
• Shock study 
• Contact management and convergence 

DAY 2

• Simulation of a jumper 
• Study of joints and tightness 
• Study of a fly back hand mechanism 
• Simulation of balance springs 

Learn to analyze the vibration behavior of your product with simulation to obtain targeted information on damping, strength and structure-borne noise.

DAY 1

• Introduction to structural dynamics analysis in Mechanical
• Fundamental dynamic properties – Natural Frequencies and Mode shapes
• Suitable modeling for dynamic analysis
• Vibrations of prestressed structures

DAY 2

• Harmonic analysis – dynamic structural response to periodic excitations
• Simulation of a shaker test – stress analysis
• Compact damping in 90 minutes
• Transient arbitrary dynamic analysis

DAY 3

• Harmonic acoustic analysis of a pump
• Dynamic superelements - saving time through reduction of substructures
• Advanced topics from vibration engineering
• Introduction to Spectral Analysis