Learn how to increase the functionality of Ansys Mechanical with APDL command objects for special tasks.

DAY 1

• How Mechanical and the MAPDL Solver work together
• MAPDL Editor: the APDL Solver has its own user interface
• Understanding a Mechanical ds.dat input file
• Optimization of model formulation: targeted modification of element properties

DAY 2

• Selections as prerequisites for automated internal load determination
• Automation: introduction to programming with APDL
• Defining loads and boundary conditions via scripts
• Controlling solution and result outputs

DAY 3

• Working efficiently with large data volumes
• Custom boundary conditions with table parameters
• More details on selected topics
• Outlook: Creating features using the Ansys Customization Suite

The most appropriate modeling options for contact, non-linear materials, and failure/correct examination and assessment.

DAY 1

• The diversity of contact types: boon and bane
• Function and use of penalty- and constraint-based contacts
• Node or area-based contact search: when to choose what?
• Troubleshooting: when the contact doesn’t do what I want

DAY 2

• Permanent connections
• Adhesive bonded connections with failure
• Spot welds and seams, bolts and rivets
• Testing and evaluating explicit simulations

DAY 3

• Material characterization and mechanical principles
• Elasticity and plasticity
• Material and element failures in connection with damage models
• Hyperelasticity, foams and plastics

Various service life concepts for fatigue and creep fracture stresses in plastic components.

DAY 1

• Introduction to the world of plastics
• Influencing factors on fatigue behavior
• Damage mechanisms
• Overview of design concepts

DAY 2

• Conventional dimensioning
• Local stress concepts – isotropic
• Local stress concepts – anisotropic
• Special cases

Learn how to use simulation to perform linear and nonlinear stability analyses safely and effectively.

DAY 1

• Stability analyses in Ansys Mechanical
• Analysis settings for non-linear analyses
• Eigenvalue buckling for linear structures
• Eigenvalue buckling for non-linear structures

DAY 2

• Creating and analyzing imperfect models
• Non-linear buckling analyses – part I
• Non-linear buckling analyses – part II
• Overview of additional stability analysis topics

Learn how to increase the functionality of Ansys Workbench so as to implement your own know-how and establish standardized simulation processes within your company.

DAY 1

• My first Ansys extension
• Programming user-defined boundary conditions
• Tools facilitating efficient ACT development
• Usability: improving the user-friendliness of an app

DAY 2

• Displaying user-defined results
• Third party applications: incorporating third-party programs
• Standardizing simulation processes through the use of wizards
• Typical areas of application for the customization toolkit (the ACT)

Assessing multi-layer fiber-composite materials with ease.

DAY 1

• Fiber-reinforced composites – do you speak composite (language)?
• Material characterization through trials – how do I measure correctly?
• Fiber-composite failures – which failure criterion should I use?
• Design of fiber-composite structures – which design recommendations do I make?

DAY 2

• Efficient analysis of fiber-composite laminates – ACP
• Laminating – defining the direction
• Layer cut-off – manufacturing constraints
• 3D is also possible – from the shell to solid with ACP

DAY 3

• Solved – what next? Evaluation and utilization of fiber-reinforced laminates
• Do you have the best solution? What else is there?
• When it's a complete failure: delamination and degradation
• Material characteristic values and curing – Material Designer and ACCS outlook

Model building, solver selection, load condition superimposition, event assessment in accordance with the requirements of applicable standards.

DAY 1

• How can earthquake verifications be conducted?
• Theory of response spectrum analysis: prerequisites, advantages and limitations
• Application of response spectrum analysis: tips and tricks
• Transient earthquake simulation: possibilities and risks

Robust computation of the penetration of pressurized fluid into the seal area, through to extrusion.

DAY 1

• Simulation of gaskets
• Workshop: gasket in pressure vessel flange
• Simulation of hyperelastic seals – material models
• Simulation of hyperelastic seals – FE analysis

DAY 2

• Contact status calculation on seal surfaces
• True state of assembled seals
• Leakage test – fluid pressure penetration
• Automatic mesh refinement for analyzing extreme load conditions for seals

Implicit process simulation of relatively thick-walled, cold-formed workpieces in ANSYS Mechanical.

DAY 1

• Cold forming with Ansys Mechanical
• Modeling for forming and welding
• Material modeling
• Evaluation of results

DAY 2

• Multi-stage forming processes
• Model creation from the deformed geometry
• Automatic remeshing during the solution
• Coupling of forming and product simulation

In this training course, you will learn methods for FE modeling of cracks as well as the most important fracture mechanics parameters.

DAY 1

• Knowing the backstory
• Characteristic variables in fracture mechanics
• Linear-elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM)
• Surface cracks in Ansys Mechanical

DAY 2

• Elastic-plastic fracture mechanics (EPFM)
• Difference between LEFM and EPBM
• User-defined crack forms
• Loaded crack faces and advanced meshing options

DAY 3

• Fracture mechanical strength verification as per the FKM guideline
• Crack growth with SMART under static load
• Crack growth under cyclic loading with SMART
• Additional possibilities of the MAPDL solver (outlook)

Learn how to use reverse engineering strategies to adjust uncertain model parameters so that simulation and testing are better aligned.

DAY 1

• Systematic approach to successful matching
• Identification of material parameters
• Experimental modal analysis (EMA)
• Calibration of dynamic system properties

Analytical eligibility and fatigue verification. Standardized implementation using FEM for the design of pressurized containers.

DAY 1

• Methods of Stress Categorization (according to AD2000) - I
• Methods of Stress Categorization (according to AD2000) - II
• Analytical Admissibility Verification as per EN 13445-3, Annex B
• Load Bearing Capacity Verification as per EN 13445-3, Annex B

DAY 2

• Verification with FEM in pressure vessel construction
• Summary of the Admissibility Verification
• Stability Proof according to EN 13445-3
• Creep Verifications as per EN 13445-3

DAY 3

• Fatigue Verification as per AD2000 and EN 13455 - Basics
• Fatigue Check According to AD2000 and EN 13455 - Detailed Check
• Example Fatigue Check
• Outlook on Further Topics

From statistical values of random vibrations to the lifetime analysis of simulated shaker tests.

DAY 1

• Theory of random processes
• PSD spectrum for FEM calculation
• Comparison of a transient analysis with a PSD analysis
• The different types of PSD excitation

DAY 2

• Advanced postprocessing of PSD analyses
• Theory of fatigue strength assessment after a PSD analysis
• PSD fatigue strength assessment in practice
• PSD analysis of fluid tank

You will learn to select and fit appropriate material models as well as to model reinforcements and confined fluids.

DAY 1

• Simulation of elastomer components
• Hyperelastic material models
• Viscoelastic effects
• Systematic material characterization

DAY 2

• Damage and cyclic material behavior
• Modeling of fiber reinforced elastomers
• Modeling of confined fluids
• Adaptive Remeshing (NLAD)

In this training you learn to understand and to simulate rotor dynamic effects.

DAY 1

• Description of rotating machines
• Dynamic properties of rigid and deformable rotating structures
• The successful way to the Campbell diagram
• Harmonic analysis: influence of the imbalance on the rotation

DAY 2

• Time-dependent effects – transient analysis
• Reproducing the bearings of rotors
• Methods for speeding up the analysis
• Cyclical symmetry – sector models

3D printing simulation in Ansys Mechanical for optimal component design for additive manufacturing.

DAY 1

• Basic information on process simulation 
• Data preparation for 3D printing of metallic components 
• Setting up a 3D printing process simulation using a real-world example
• A look behind the scenes

Learn more about the realistic modeling of material behavior in metals and typical components of plastic strength analyses.

DAY 1

• Overview of the world of metals
• Reproducing the plastic material behavior in the FE model
• Ansys material models for monotonic loads
• Ansys material models for a cyclical load

DAY 2

• Combinations of kinematic and isotropic hardening
• Influence of the rate dependency in short time periods
• Time-dependent behavior with constant load and high temperature
• Special effects with metals

Greater accuracy of machine tools under static, dynamic and thermal environmental conditions.

DAY 1

• Machine tool-oriented FE modeling
• Effect of moving loads on the straightness of the TCP
• Static stiffness in the uncontrolled state
• Static stiffness in the controlled state

DAY 2

• Dynamic accuracy of the feed axes I
• Dynamic accuracy of the feed axes II
• Accuracy-relevant, stationary thermal growth
• Advanced analyses

Select, understand, and apply material models for concrete, reinforced concrete and soils for foundation and retaining wall analysis applications.

DAY 1

• Initial stress state and elastic behavior of soils
• Limit states analysis for foundations and retaining walls
• Prediction of foundation settlements considering volumetric yielding
• Concrete and reinforced concrete

This training explains and classifies all the important concepts needed to determine the strength and life cycle of welded components.

DAY 1

• Introduction to the theory of verification concepts
• Advanced principles of the verification concepts
• Fatigue strength assessment for non-welded joints
• Fatigue strength assessment for seam-welded joints

DAY 2

• Overview of the implementation of theory in simulation
• Strength verification of welds as per FKM
• Nominal stress concept
• Structural stress concepts

DAY 3

• Notch stress concept
• Structural engineering verification of welds as per FKM
• Comparison of FKM with other sets of standards
• Discussion of specific problems

High-end fatigue strength — from preassembled glyphs to mapping of individual concepts.

DAY 1

• High cycle fatigue (HCF): fatigue strength according to stress concept I
• High cycle fatigue (HCF): fatigue strength according to stress concept II
• Operating loads with long time series
• Total service life based on various partial loads

DAY 2

• Low cycle fatigue (LCF): fatigue strength according to strain concept I
• Low cycle fatigue (LCF): fatigue strength according to strain concept II
• Fatigue strength assessment with dynamic structural responses
• Other topics in Ansys nCode DesignLife

Importing and calibrating external injection molding data in order to take into account plastic, anisotropic materials in Ansys Mechanical.

DAY 1

• Peculiarities of Direction-Dependent Material Properties Characteristic of the Injection Molding Process
• Material Modeling: Producing Effective Material Properties from Matrix and Fiber
• Calibration of Plastic Material Properties
• Applications to Thermal Analysis, Warpage, and Linear Dynamics

Learn how to selectively reduce undesirable vibrations in simulations and take parasitic damping into account.

DAY 1

• Effective and ineffective damping methods
• Virtual damping test rig
• Vibration reduction through tuned mass dampers (TMD)
• Vibration isolation

DAY 2

• Damping in solid materials: measurement
• Damping in solid materials: simulation
• Damping in assemblies
• Other technically relevant damping phenomena

Learn to detect and specifically influence friction-induced vibration phenomena.

DAY 1

• Friction as a cause of vibrations
• Friction-induced vibration through mode coupling
• Friction-induced oscillation due to mode coupling (advanced)
• Nonlinear vibration analysis: Stick-slip effect

DAY 2

• Stick-slip and structure-borne sound
• Friction induced heat
• Friction-induced wear
• Other friction-related Ansys features

Learn how to implement custom creep models to account for time-dependent material behavior.

DAY 1

• User Programmable Features (UPFs): possibilities and prerequisites
• Developing your first UPF application (Workshop)
• Developing the basic UserCreep app (Workshop)
• Adding more features to the UserCreep app (Workshop)

In this course, you will learn how to program, compile and implement user-defined friction models in Ansys.

DAY 1

• User-programmable features (UPFs): possibilities and prerequisites
• Developing your first UPF app (Workshop)
• Developing the basic UserInter app (Workshop)
• Adding more features to the UserInter app (Workshop)

Learn to implement your own hyperelasticity models to analyze elastomer material behavior.

DAY 1

• User Programmable Features (UPFs): possibilities and prerequisites
• Developing your first UPF application (Workshop)
• Developing the basic UserHyper app (Workshop)
• Adding more features to the UserHyper app (Workshop)

Learn to implement your own viscoplasticity models in order to analyze the behavior of plastically deformed solids.

DAY 1

• User Programmable Features (UPFs): possibilities and prerequisites
• Developing your first UPF application (Workshop)
• Developing the basic UserMat app (Workshop)
• Adding more features to the UserMat app (Workshop)

In this course, you will learn how to program, compile and implement user-defined wear models in Ansys.

DAY 1

• User-programmable features (UPFs): possibilities and prerequisites
• Developing your first UPF app (Workshop)
• Developing the basic UserWear app (Workshop)
• Adding more features to the UserWear app (Workshop)

Understanding and applying Ansys material models for precise description of the behavior of plastics.

DAY 1

• What physical effects characterize plastic?
• Linear viscoelasticity in the time domain
• Viscoelastic parameters from time-dependent experiments
• Linear viscoelasticity in the frequency domain

DAY 2

• Frequency and temperature are the same phenomenon
• Plastic creep
• Cyclical plasticity of plastics
• Recommendations for designing plastic components