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SPX Process Engineering Ltd - Structural Analysis of a Flange Assembly for a Hyundai Filter |
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Entering the filtration market in the 1950s and now specialises in process design and engineered filtration solutions. SPX Flow technology was required to produce a design for a sea water filter for Hyundai, which would serve to remove foreign matter from the feed pump inlet. The filter was to be used on a vessel in an offshore application. The filter was designed in accordance with ASME guidelines. SPX required IDAC to carry out a Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to establish if the designed filter flange would be able to withstand an increased design pressure. This case study describes the analysis of the filter flange using the ANSYS suite of simulation software. Read more |
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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 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. |
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Turning Optimization on it's Head |
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By using the discrete adjoint solver introduced in ANSYS Fluent 14.0 software, you can radically improve the normal process of optimizing complex designs. You can achieve significant product design improvements with the Fluent adjoint solver (AS) at the computational cost of a handful of CFD flow simulations. Adjoint methods provide cost-effective optimization for highly complex models when compared with traditional optimization methods. Traditional methods are impractical for complex models because of the computational expense caused by the tens or hundreds of flow simulations required. Read more |
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Not So Confident with ANSYS APDL? |
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Pedal is a Windows text editor for ANSYS APDL scripts. It integrates with the ANSYS help system to provide instantaneous help on any one of the 1000s of ANSYS commands. A few of the features include: Side-by-side editor and help viewer layout, Instant help on any documented APDL command by pressing F1, Full syntax highlighting, Search ANSYS help by phrase and keyword, Auto-complete drop downs for APDL Commands, Create custom search indices for confining searches to only sub-sections of the entire ANSYS help
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ANSYS Class3 Error Reports |
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Error No: 2012-09
PIPE288, PIPE289, KEYOPT(6)=1, EFFECTIVE TENSION. The 'Effective Tens' output quantity is incorrect for pipe element
types PIPE288 and PIPE289 when KEYOPT(6) is set to 1, which causes pressure loads not to be applied to end caps. Read more |
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Error No: 2012-10
ANISOTROPIC VISCOELASTICITY, TB,PRONY, TB,ELASTIC. The anisotropic viscoelastic constitutive model does not compute
the viscoelastic response correctly. Read more |
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Error No: WB2012-04
REMOTE BOUNDARY CONDITION, VERTEX SCOPING. Under certain circumstances, beams
may not be assigned a sufficiently high stiffness and the resulting
flexibility can alter the expected application of the remote
boundary condition. Read more |
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Error No: WB2012-05
ASSEMBLY MESHING, FLUENT MESH EXPORT, PARENT/CHILD, FACE CONVERSION TO POLYHEDRAL CELLS. The meshes generated in WB Meshing using the Assembly Meshing
approach which are exported as FLUENT mesh file can have polyhedral
cells which are bounded by faces which do not reference interior
bridge nodes on edges. Read more |
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Error No: WB2012-06
THERMAL-ELECTRIC ANALYSIS, HEAT FLOW LOAD, VERTEX/EDGE, SELECTION. Heat Flow loads that are defined in Thermal Electric analyses are
incorrectly omitted. Read more |
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Ask the Experts - IDAC Simulation Open Day |
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Date: 11th July 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 |
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Engineering Simulation Solutions for the Oil & Gas Industry – Gas Dispersion and Smoke Analysis |
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Date: 22nd June Time: 14:00 GMT Venue: Online webinar Duration: 60 minutes
As part of the safety requirements for operating offshore platforms, a safety case which quantifies all of the risks has to be submitted. In order to quantify the risks of explosion and fire, gas dispersion and ventilation tests have to be carried out. Full scale tests are both expensive and impractical and scale physical model tests have their limitations. With the increasing affordability of powerful computing and advances in software, Computational Fluid Dynamics has now become the most realistic choice. Register |
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Civil & Environmental Engineering Seminar |
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Date: 13th September 2012 Time: 10:00 - 17:00 Venue: Airport House Business Centre, Croydon
IDAC is opening its doors to the Civil & Environmental engineering communities. 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 a specialist breakout sessions where you can pose questions about analysis techniques with respect to your industrial application. Read more | Register |
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| Industry Case Studies & Articles |
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HPC Goes into the Wild Blue Yonder |
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Scaled-up flow
simulation enables
cost-effective aircraft
design optimization. At Airbus in the U.K., a team of fluid
engineers has been using HPC in safety
investigations of fluid behavior within the the central fuel tanks on several families
of Airbus planes must include, or be retrofitted
with, inerting systems for the
purpose of reducing flammability. The Airbus team’s use of HPC simulation in the
inerting system design has been so successful
that it has enabled the elimination of building
more-expensive physical testing rigs. Read more |
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Improving Film Die Uniformity |
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Optimization using engineering
simulation helps to improve film
die uniformity by 13 percent
while reducing pressure drop. By simulating the flow through film
extrusion dies, ANSYS Polyflow can predict
the degree of flow uniformity at the
die lip, and ANSYS DesignXplorer can help
to optimize the die geometry to improve
uniformity. Making improvements will generate large cost savings over the
life of the die in material waste and power consumption
while also making it possible to deliver a higher-quality
product to customers. Read more |
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nCode Software Certified by GL Renewables Certification |
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First structural integrity software to be certified for fatigue design of wind turbine structures. DesignLife is the first software for structural integrity to be GL RC certified for the design of cast and forged machinery components in wind turbines. “The certificate proves that the software is suitable for the calculation of fatigue life of forged and cast structural machinery components of wind turbines, “says Mike Woebbeking, Vice President and Head of Certification Body, GL Renewables Certification. It assures users that their component designs can be analysed in conformity with GL RC’s Guideline for the Certification of Wind Turbines 2010. Read more |
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ANSYS, Inc. Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Esterel Technologies S.A. |
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ANSYS will acquire Esterel Technologies for a cash purchase price of approximately euro 42 million (or approximately US$53 million), subject to certain working capital adjustments at close. The agreement also includes retention provisions for key members of management and employees. Headquartered in Elancourt, France, Esterel has about 80 employees and reported revenues of approximately euro 15 million for fiscal year 2011. The transaction, currently anticipated to close in the third calendar quarter of 2012, is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Read more |
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SpaceClaim Engineer 2012 Named Product of the Month by NASA Tech Briefs |
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We are pleased to announce that NASA Tech Briefs has named SpaceClaim Engineer 2012 "Product of the Month" for May 2012, making it eligible for Product of the Year. SpaceClaim Engineer includes "new capabilities in reverse engineering, model preparation for simulation, manufacturing, and data reuse. A SketchUp conversion feature detects regions where SketchUp's approximated, facetted geometry was derived from analytic surfaces such as cylinders and cones, and automatically replaces them with precise geometry." Read more |
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nCode 8 ISR1 Now Available |
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A significant amount of new functionality has been introduced at this in-service release, included for nCode DesignLife: Auto-elimination wizard, Short Fibre Composite fatigue analysis is now supported with ANSYS, Improved upfront validation and Improved memory management. New functionality for nCode GlyphWorks includes: New glyphs ( PSD to Rainflow, Weibull Analysis and Trend Removal), Usability enhancements made in Available Data window and File Format enhancements (Moog SmarTEST Data Acquisition ACS_DUMP, Moog AeroTEST Suite .dat and .hdr files and Dewetron d7d support on 64-bit Windows platforms). Visit website for update |
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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
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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
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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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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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