IDAC eNews Issue 101

Come and meet our Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) Simulation experts and ask questions about your specialist fields. The day will be split into 2 parts, in the morning there will be presentations summarising our company's activities including our software solutions. After lunch there will be a chance to attend one of four specialist breakout sessions where you can pose questions about analysis techniques with respect to your industrial application. One attendee from each company will receive a £250 voucher which can be redeemed against any IDAC service. Read more | Register.

Confirm your training order with IDAC between 3rd January and 29th February for training to be taken anytime in 2012 and we will reduce the cost by 15%. Choose from any one of our standard scheduled courses or create a customized course to combine the elements most specific to your analyses, at a time most convenient to you. Our training courses span a variety of industries and analysis capabilities including: Static Structural Analysis, Fatigue and Heat Transfer. For further information please email: training@idac.co.uk | View full list of courses

20th - 22nd February

At IDAC we have a huge amount of experience using both the ANSYS Classic and ANSYS Workbench environments with more than 1000 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.

Use of *TREAD and *VREAD to read in data from an external file

ANSYS Class3 Error Reports

Ask the Experts - IDAC Simulation Open Day

Date: 26th April 2012 Time: 10:30 - 16:00 Venue: Airport House Business Centre, Croydon
IDAC is opening its doors to the engineering community free of charge. This is an opportunity for you meet our Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) Simulation experts and ask questions about your specialist fields. The day will be split into 2 parts, in the morning there will be presentations summarising our company's activities including our software solutions. After lunch there will be a chance to attend one of four specialist breakout sessions where you can pose questions about analysis techniques with respect to your industrial application. Read more | Register

Buckling Analysis in ANSYS Mechanical 14.0

Date: 8th February Time: 9:00 - 14:00 Venue: Online webinar
This webinar will focus on how to perform linear and non-linear buckling analysis using ANSYS Mechanical 14.0, including capturing the post-buckled behavior and best practices. It will begin with a short presentation. After the presentation, a panel of experts from the ANSYS development and technical services groups will answer questions live via WebEx. Read more | Register

Composite Structure Analyses in an Integrated Multphysics Simulation Environment

Date: 15th February Time: 13:00 ET Venue: Online webinar
The webinar will cover ANSYS composite capabilities, including progressive failure, VCCT, and cohesive zone modeling. This webinar will also cover how ANSYS tools can expedite realistic composite simulations, and how design changes can be easily accommodated without the need for time-consuming manual model rework of boundary conditions and connections.
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Not All Stresses Are Reported Equal

Different stress and strain results in ANSYS Mechanical versus Mechanical APDL (MAPDL) may indicate need for a refined mesh. Among the features offered by ANSYS structural analysis tools are three different methods for calculating and reporting stress and strain results. However, viewing such results using ANSYS Mechanical software in the ANSYS Workbench platform compared to ANSYS Mechanical APDL can lead to uncertainties about which displayed values are more accurate. In evaluating the results from the three methods, they may all be considered correct but simply displayed differently. Read more

Designing Wireless Power Supply Systems

Our mobile, wireless, connected world depends on batteries. The power for phones, laptops, cameras, MP3 players and other modern electronic devices is drawn from small rechargeable batteries. All too often, recharging the battery for each device requires digging through a large and jumbled collection of cables and chargers to find the right one. New technology is changing how we recharge by eliminating the need for these cables and multiple chargers. A number of promising new wireless power supply technologies will allow consumers to quickly, easily and efficiently charge their battery-powered devices without cables. Read more

Speeding to a Solution

MicroConsult engineers performed a thermal simulation on an electronic control unit (ECU), then used the data as an input for a mechanical simulation of the ECU; they subsequently applied the temperatures and displacements to a submodel of the integrated circuit (IC) for a solder creep–strain analysis. When originally solved with ANSYS Mechanical 11.0, the analysis required two weeks per design iteration. Improved high-performance computing (HPC) hardware and advances in subsequent ANSYS software development reduced the time to solve the model to half a day. Read more

ANSYS Earns Highest Rating From Investor's Business Daily

ANSYS is one of only six technology businesses worldwide to receive the highest possible score in a new list of stock ratings published by Investor's Business Daily. The financial publication's SmartSelect Composite Ratings of publicly traded companies grade stock performance on a scale of 1 to 99. ANSYS earned a rating of 99 earlier this month, the highest possible score. This places ANSYS among the top 1 percent of all stocks reviewed by the publication. In compiling its SmartSelect Composite Ratings, Investor's Business Daily considers many factors, including earnings per share, relative price strength, sales and profit. Read more

Ansys Gains On Short Product Life Cycles

As Red Bull drivers Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber dominated Formula One auto racing this year, winning the championship, software maker Ansys cheered. Red Bull Racing, owned by the Austrian beverage maker, uses Pittsburgh-based Ansys' (ANSS) engineering software to design faster cars. The software simulates racetrack conditions, enabling Red Bulls' aerodynamics specialists to create computer models that assess air flow behavior on F1 cars. Other users include aerospace and defense firms, medical device makers, and oil and gas companies such as Exxon Mobil. Read more

Speedo 'Race System' Lifts Off From 2007

Almost four years on from the LZR Racer that lit a torch to the suits crisis in swimming and culminated in a ban on all non-textile apparel and the bodysuit cut, Speedo has just launched its "Fastskin3 Racing System" in East London along the road from the Aquatics Centre where the next chapter in Olympic swimming will be written later this year. Michael Phelps, the Olympian most decorated in gold in Games history, says: "Speedo FASTSKIN3 makes me feel completely at one with the water. I feel confident, I feel comfortable and I feel like I am wearing the fastest." Read more

2012/13 TRAINING COURSE SCHEDULE

Mechanical Introduction more

Mechanical Structural Nonlinearities more

Simulation Dynamics more

Simulation Heat Transfer FEA more

Simulation Heat Transfer CFD more

DesignModeler more

Introduction to ANSYS CFX more

APDL-Parametric Design Language more

Introduction Part 1 more

Introduction Part 2 more

WE ALSO RUN THE FOLLOWING ANSYS COURSES AT DATES CONVENIENT FOR YOU

DesignXplorer more

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.

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, Samcef.

For further information call +44 (0)844 212 5900
alternatively email: training@idac.co.uk

CFD for Built Environment more

Introduction to Multiphase CFD more

Fluid Structure Interaction (1-way) more

Design Optimisation for FEA more

Design Optimisation for CFD more

Simulation EMAG more

Introduction to Autodyn more

Introduction to Fluent more

Rigid & Flexible Dynamics more

Introduction to FEA Techniques more

Basic Structural Nonlinearities more

Advanced Structural Nonlinearities more

Advanced Contact more

Heat Transfer more

Low Frequency Electromagnetics more

High Frequency Electromagnetics more

Simulation for MEMS more