ANSYS Mechanical Solutions - Technology
Element Technology
ANSYS offers a comprehensive set of elements with modern architecture which
meet the requirements of real world applications. Some of the salient features
of these elements include:
- Accepts all material models (elastic, hyperelastic, viscoelastic, plastic,
viscoplastic, creep, cast iron)
- Supports many features & infrastructure
- Initial stress, thermal loading, element death/birth
- Static, transient, modal, buckling and restart
- Consistent formulation across the element family
- Consistent within the family and constitutive algorithms
- Accounts for follower pressure and force effects Lagrange multipliers for constraints
Solid Shell element mesh for a variable thickness solid
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| Topologies |
| 2-D Quad/Tri |
| 3-D – Hexahedron |
| 3-D - Tetrahedron |
| 3-D - Wedge |
| 3-D - Pyramid |
| Solid Shell |
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| Beam Elements |
| Consistent stiffness terms |
| Multi material beam analysis |
| Finite Strain |
| 3-D Visualization of Cross
Sections |
| Open and closed cell cross sections |
| Large Rotation |
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| Shell Elements |
| Uniform Reduced Integration (URI) |
| Enhanced Strain |
| Finite Strain |
| Layered Composites |
| Thickness functions |
| Extensive nonlinear material support |
| Integration with Explicit analysis |
| 3-D Visualization |
| Large Rotation |
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Beam-Beam contact using beam elements shown here with cross section details
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| Analysis |
| Large Strain |
| Large Rotation |
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| Stress States |
| Plane Stress |
| Plane Strain |
| 3-D |
| Axisymmetric |
| Gen. Plane Strain |
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| Formulations |
| Displacement |
| B-Bar |
| Enhanced Strain |
| URI+HG |
| Mixed u-P |
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