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ANSYS aids Innovation with its Simulation Software |
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Shaikh, an engineer who previously helped design cars for BMW, decided to invent his way out of any paternal inadequacies he had whilst bottle feeding. He thought of a bottle to heat milk instantly to a specified temperature and was able to test it without building prototype after prototype. Instead, Shaikh largely brought his product to life digitally, using software from ANSYS, a company that has quietly cornered the market on manufacturing simulation. ANSYS’s models showed Shaikh how different plastics would behave when heated up and how varying nipple designs would affect milk flow. “Everything is simulated these days,” says Shaikh. Read more |
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Intelligent Energy Powers its Future with ANSYS Simulation |
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As the hyper-competitive automotive industry faces increased complexities and the need for improved operational efficiencies, a leader in green power technology, Intelligent Energy, is maintaining its competitive advantage with high-fidelity simulation thanks to ANSYS. Intelligent Energy is leveraging of a suite of ANSYS® multiphysics products to quickly develop and optimize complex designs for low-carbon hydrogen fuel cells for the automotive and other industry sectors. "ANSYS enables us to quickly explore design issues in a virtual environment before committing resources to prototyping," said Matt Lennard, principal engineer at Intelligent Energy. Read more |
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Transatlantic Flights 'to get more turbulent' |
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Planes are already encountering stronger winds, and could now face more turbulence, according to research led from Reading University, UK. The study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that by mid-century passengers will be bounced around more frequently and more strongly. The zone in the North Atlantic affected by turbulence could also increase. Reading's Dr Paul Williams said comfort was not the only consideration; there were financial consequences of bumpier airspace as well. It's certainly plausible that if flights get diverted more to fly around turbulence rather than through it then the amount of fuel that needs to be burnt will increase". Read more |
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Designing Solid Composites |
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Traditionally, layered
composites structures
are modeled as
thin structures using
shell elements. This
approach is valid when
designing thin parts, such as hollow
tubes for bikes, panels for airframes
and wind turbine blades. But when
the parts are exceptionally large, such as
gas turbine blades or stringers for
pressure vessels, using shell elements
is not appropriate. In such cases, both
stresses in the direction of the thickness
and shear stresses out of plane
are significant, and solid models
are required. Solid models are also appropriate when loads are
applied in the direction of the thickness or when the structure is
subject to large deformations. Read more |
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Using the Remote Solve Manager with ANSYS Mechanical |
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The ANSYS Workbench-based Remote Solve Manager (RSM) is a job queuing system that can be used to efficiently manage Mechanical analyses on Windows and Linux operating systems. The RSM enables solutions to be executed in the background on local workstations or on remote servers. RSM comes standard with ANSYS Workbench products. Separate licensing is not required. The RSM allows users to queue several independent analyses to be solved sequentially. For example, different projects can be queued to solve overnight or over a weekend. The RSM can also be used to batch solve ANSYS Mechanical APDL runs, so RSM usage is not limited to ANSYS Workbench Mechanical. Read more |
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| Consultancy Service |
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At IDAC we have a huge amount of experience using both the ANSYS Classic and ANSYS Workbench environments with more than 1200 projects having been delivered over the last decade of our operations, shown here. Our consultants use their combined strength of competencies and expertise to deliver solutions to customers. We can help our customers develop product designs and processes, as well as creating new designs within a range of industries. We provide an efficient, cost effective service to ISO 9001 that is tailored to your engineering needs. Take a look at the Consultancy Services section of our website for more information or contact IDAC on +44 (0)844 212 5900 directly if you would like to discuss your requirements with a consultant. |
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Civil & Environmental Engineering Seminar |
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Date: 23rd May 2013 Time: 10:30 - 16:00 Venue: Airport House Business Centre, Croydon
An opportunity for Civil & Environmental engineers to meet IDAC's Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) Simulation experts and ask questions about your specialist fields. Here we are offering a “hands-on” technology seminar to learn about and experience ANSYS and other engineering software capabilities for the Civil and Environmental Industry. Read more | Register |
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ANSYS Regional Conference – UK |
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Date: 13th June 2013 Venue: Holiday Inn, Bridgefoot, Stratford upon Avon
Physics. High-Performance Computing. Data Management. Thermal. Economic. Regulatory Forces. Individually, these phenomena impact your product’s performance. But the ability to accurately simulate how these forces converge and impact the entire system is the difference between approximating real-world conditions and predicting how your product will actually perform. This convergence of computer-aided engineering experts and other thought leaders offers opportunities for exchanging ideas and improving your engineering simulation skills. Register |
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| ANSYS Class 3 Error Reports |
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ANSYS Class3 Error Reports |
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Error No: WB2013-07
USER DEFINED RESULT, IDENTIFIER, EXPRESSION. If the user creates a user defined result that is scoped to a
surface or to a path, and if the user includes the identifier from
a regular result in the expression detail, then the results might
be displayed in the wrong. Read more |
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Error No: WB2013-08
DAMPING, CONSTANT DAMPING COEFFICIENT, PRESTRESSED LINKED, MODE SUPERPOSITION ANALYSIS. After a prestressed Mode Superposition (MSUP) analysis is
completely solved, any change made to the Constant Damping
Coefficient of Engineering Data is not taken into effect for a new
solution. Read more |
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Error No: WB2013-09
SYSTEM COUPLING, HIGH-ORDER ELEMENT, DEGENERATED WEDGE, DEGENERATED PYRAMID. When a high-order degenerated wedge or pyramid element is used in
System Coupling, the received force is not correctly distributed. Read more |
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Error No: 2013-07
SUBSTRUCTURE, MASS MATRIX, DAMPING MATRIX, SPARSE SOLVER. When performing a substructure analysis generation pass to create a superelement using the sparse direct solver, the reduced mass matrix, and the reduced damping matrix if chosen, may be incorrect. Read more |
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Error No: 2013-08
PERTURB, LINEAR PERTURBATION ANALYSIS, TARGE169, TARGE170, PILOT NODE, NODAL COORDINATE SYSTEM. When a linear perturbation analysis is performed
and the finite element model used contains a pilot node the coordinates of certain other nodes in the model could be updated incorrectly. Read more |
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| Industry Case Studies & Articles |
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Ready for Liftoff |
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The global aerospace industry faces many critical challenges centered around engineering and technology. R&D
teams are often tasked with balancing multiple, sometimes conflicting, priorities and developing new strategies
to address these challenges. Whether they’re working on innovative new engine designs,
reshaping wings for better aerodynamics or exploring the use of composites materials in the fuselage, engineers are positioning this industry for a future in which all of these goals can be achieved. Just as the aerospace industry has advanced over the
years, ANSYS software has evolved to anticipate new engineering problems. In this article, ANSYS experts share some recent
technology innovations that benefit the global aerospace industry. Read more |
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On Board with Stimulation |
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ThyssenKrupp Airport Systems
has installed more than 3,000 passenger
boarding bridges at airports around the world. The drivesystem
frame of the passenger boarding
bridge (known as the bogie) supports
55 tons of structure
while providing the forward, backward
and lateral movements needed to dock
to the aircraft. ThyssenKrupp recently used ANSYS
simulation tools to develop a new bogie
design by evaluating the performance of
many design iterations while taking nonlinear
material properties and contacts
into account. Parametric analysis and
shape optimization delivered the required
safety margin with the least material
possible. The end result is a part with 33
percent higher allowable load limits that
keeps manufacturing costs under control
by using 10 percent less material than the
original part. Read more |
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Shaping Up |
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Most business aircraft manufacturers
use computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) and wind tunnel
testing to evaluate wing designs one
iteration at a time. However, with this
method, optimizing a design typically
runs into many months — time that leading
manufacturers try to reduce. To speed
up the optimization process, Piaggio Aero
Industries, S.p.A., teamed with researchers
at the University of Rome Tor Vergata
to validate a new design optimization
method that generates a single mesh
as a starting point and morphs it to any
new geometry studied. The morpher tool
RBF Morph allows engineers to change
the locations of nodes in the computational
mesh to alter wing shape. Read more |
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2013/14 TRAINING COURSE SCHEDULE |
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Introduction to ANSYS
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WE ALSO RUN THE FOLLOWING ANSYS COURSES AT DATES CONVENIENT FOR YOU |
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Customised And Technology Transfer Courses |
Courses can be tailored to your specific needs. The relevant chapters from any of the scheduled courses can be assembled into a customised course to cover the skills you need to solve your specific engineering simulation problems. We can also tailor courses around Consultancy solutions that we have provided to our clients. Courses can be held at IDAC or at your company offices. |
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Additional Courses Available |
IDAC are also able to offer courses on the following subjects and programs: CivilFEM for ANSYS, FE Weld, Fracture Mechanics, Design Optimisation, Probabilistic Design System and Samcef
There are also additional ANSYS Courses available in the following subjects: ANSYS Polyflow, ANSYS TGrid, ANSYS Turbogrid, ANSYS AQWA, ANSYS DesignModeler and ANSYS FLUENT
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Multiphase Flow Modeling in
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Introduction to ANSYS ICEM
CFD more |
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Solving FSI using ANSYS
Mechanical & CFX more |
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CFX Combustion and
Radiation more |
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Introduction to Explicit STR more |
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Introduction to Autodyn more |
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ANSYS FLUENT Introduction more |
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Introduction to ANSYS
Icepak more |
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Introduction to nCode
DesignLife more |
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ANSYS Composite PrepPost more |
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Basic Structural
Nonlinearities more |
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Advanced Structural
Nonlinearities more |
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Advanced Contact &
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Explicit Dynamics with
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Low Frequency
Electromagnetics more |
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