Ansys Mechanical is a best-in-class finite element solver with structural, thermal, acoustics, transient and nonlinear capabilities to improve your modeling.
Ansys Mechanical enables you to solve complex structural engineering problems and make better, faster design decisions. With the finite element analysis (FEA) solvers available in the suite, you can customize and automate solutions for your structural mechanics problems and parameterize them to analyze multiple design scenarios. Ansys Mechanical is a dynamic tool that has a complete range of analysis tools.
Ansys Mechanical offers a dynamic environment with a complete range of analysis tools, from preparing geometry for analysis to connecting additional physics for even greater fidelity. The intuitive and customizable user interface enables engineers of all levels to get answers fast and with confidence.
July 2024
The 2024 R2 release of Ansys Mechanical brings a comprehensive suite of new features designed to deliver holistic advantages to our customers.
The NVH Toolkit now includes new features and enhancements such as a frequency response function calculator (FRF), transfer path analysis calculator, and XML converter for EM loads. The FRF calculator now incorporates stress and strain calculations and seamless integration with data processing framework operations. In contrast, the TPA calculator improvements handle more complex data and provide improved visualization.
Introducing fluid penetration pressure load for simulations involving fluid-structure interaction and resource prediction supports harmonic response and nonlinear static structural analysis.
New in this release supports importing models from ABAQUS and LS-DYNA and improved data import functionality from Rocky that automates the configuration of convection and force load.
"Ansys Mechanical provides the ability to model the realistic and complex details of injection molded plastics, like the orientation of fibers and the presence of injection stresses in the parts, which significantly increases the accuracy of our engineering developments."
—Francesco Fiorini, structural and durability engineer at thysssenkrupp Presta AG
All products have an environmental impact, a fact customers are increasingly aware of as they take an interest in their carbon footprints. In the automotive industry, there is a global push to reach zero vehicle emissions by 2050 to satisfy consumer demand and increasingly stricter environmental laws. To do so, leading vehicle manufactures and their partners are embracing lightweighting and electrification. Composite materials are key to making vehicles lighter so they can use smaller engines that consume less energy and produce fewer emissions. For the high-volume production models (body panels, frames, housings), an increasingly adopted technique is the manufacturing of critical components through injection molding with short-fiber reinforced plastics.
Thyssenkrupp Presta is leveraging its longstanding competencies in materials, components and systems to lead automotive digital transformation processes. Ansys Mechanical’s short fiber reinforced composite workflow helped thyssenkrupp Presta reach the targeted 50% weight reduction with respect to the original metal part to meet mechanical performance and OEMs requirements. The adoption of an innovative and lightweight plastic housing for its steering system supports both the ecological and economical goals of thyssenkrupp Presta and helps the company lead the evolution of the steering systems for the automotive market of tomorrow.
Ansys Mechanical creates an integrated platform that uses finite element analysis (FEA) for structural analysis. Mechanical is a dynamic environment that has a complete range of analysis tools, from preparing geometry for analysis to connecting additional physics for even greater fidelity. The intuitive and customizable user interface enables engineers of all levels to get answers fast and with confidence.
Ansys Workbench enables robust connection to commercial CAD tools, providing click button design point updates. Seamlessly integrated multiphysics capabilities are available with fluids and electrical solvers.
Experience dynamic analysis and embrace advanced solver options across a variety of materials and functions
There are three licensing options available with Ansys Mechanical:
| Mechanical Pro | Mechanical Premium | Mechanical Enterprise | |
| Full thermal analysis | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Modal analysis | |||
| Full contact | |||
| Non-linear geometry | |||
| Material plasticity | |||
| Structural optimization | |||
| Pre-stressed modal | |||
| 4 HPC Cores | |||
| Full linear dynamics | |||
| Element birth and death | |||
| Full material non-linearity | |||
| Coupled field elements | |||
| User Defined Material Model Formulations |
MECHANICAL RESOURCES & EVENT
This webinar series focuses on our lightweighting capabilities, which will help solve your toughest A&D engineering problems.
Ansys has teamed up with various software vendors to provide a complete workflow for composite manufacturing, design and analysis. This webinar series focuses on reducing modeling uncertainties when designing with composites.
This webinar showcases the workflow from geometry to validation for all available topology optimization methods, empowering you to generate truly lightweight structures.
Symmetry in Ansys Mechanical enables users to only model a portion of the structure they are simulating to achieve faster simulation and post-processing results. Users can implement Symmetry if the geometry, material orientation, loading, and expected response all exhibit symmetry about the same planes.
To use Symmetry in Ansys Mechanical, you can either select the Model folder under your current project, navigate to the Model tab, and select Symmetry, or right-click on the Model folder and choose Insert then Symmetry. Both options above will insert a symmetry folder object where different types of Symmetry can be added.
Based on analysis type and symmetry needs, the following Symmetry objects can be inserted: symmetry region, linear periodic, periodic region, cyclic region, and pre-mesh cyclic region.
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