ANSYS® Structural™

Summary of Features

Performance Simulation

• Structural
• Linear
• Nonlinear
• Static
• Dynamic
  • Transient, Natural frequency
  • Harmonic response
  • Response spectrum
  • Random vibration
• Buckling
  • Linear
  • Nonlinear
• Topological optimization

Structural Nonlinear Capabilities

• Geometric
  • Large strain
  • Large deflection
  • Stress stiffening
  • Spin softening
• Material
  • Plasticity
  • Hyperelasticity
  • Viscoplasticity
  • Viscoelasticity
  • Creep
  • Swelling
  • Temperature-dependent properties
• Element
• Cables and compression-only spars
• Contact elements with friction
  • Surface-to-surface
  • Node-to-surface
  • Node-to-node
• Pretension element (at right)
• Control (switching) elements
• Cracking solids
• Crushing solids
• Element birth and death
• Substructuring for linear regions
• Nonlinear beams

Design Studies

• Design sensitivity
• Optimization
• ANSYS Parametric Design Language (APDL)
• Define geometry in terms of variables
• Trigonometric functions
• Do-loop feature
• If-then-else constructs
• Array parameters
• Array parameter operations
• Macro

Solution Methods (Solvers)

• Iterative
  • Pre-Conditioned Conjugate Gradient (PCG)
  • Jacobi Conjugate Gradient (JCG)
  • Incomplete Cholesky Conjugate Gradient (ICCG)
• Direct
  • Sparse matrix
  • Frontal (wavefront)
• Parallel Performance for ANSYS (add-on product)
  • Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) (shared memory)
  • Distributed Domain Solver (DDS) (distributed as well as shared memory)
  • Distributed Pre-conditioned Conjugate Gradient (DPCG)(distributed as well as shared memory)
  • Distributed Jacobi Conjugate Gradient (DJCG) (distributed as well as shared memory)
• Eigensolvers
• Block Lanczos
• Subspace
• Reduced

ANSYS Supported Platforms

• HP Alphaserver
• HP PA 8000 64-bit
• HP Itanium2 IA-64
• IBM 64-bit
• SGI 64-bit
• Sun UltraSPARC 64-bit
• Sun ULTRA III 64-bit
• Intel IA-32 Windows
• Intel IA-64 Windows
• Intel IA-32 LINUX
• Intel IA-64 LINUX

ANSYS Workbench Environment Supported Platforms

• Intel IA-32 Windows
• HP PA 8000 64-bit
• Sun UltraSPARC 64-bit
• Sun ULTRA III 64-bi

 

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