From design and analysis to manufacturing and operations, ANSYS France drives cutting-edge engineering simulations, enabling unprecedented productivity. Engineering teams from a broad cross-section of industries are leveraging ANSYS simulation to radically reduce their development time and significantly spur their innovation. Learn how they have been so successful in this video.

5G network infrastructure will rely on high-frequency mmWave spectrum, massive multiple- input-multiple-output (MIMO), small cells and beamforming and beam tracking capabilities. These will increasingly complicate the design of 5G systems that must now absorb huge amounts of antenna data, support a variety of 5G air interfaces — massive machine type communication (MTC), enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and ultra-reliable and low latency communication (URLLC) — and offer significantly higher processing capabilities within a power- and thermal-constrained environment.

In this presentation, Dr. Norman Chang, chief technologist for ANSYS/semiconductors, addresses reliability challenges, including electromigration (EM), thermal-aware EM, thermal-induced mechanical stress, electrostatic discharge (ESD) and device aging: All are key for 5G electronics systems design to enable mission-critical applications of the future, e.g., self-driving cars.

In this webinar, guest speakers from The Welding Institute (TWI) and the ANSYS Granta team present a software-based application for optimizing process parameters for selective laser melting (SLM) builds.

The “holy grail” of metal additive manufacturing (AM) is producing reliable, high-performance parts with minimal post-processing required. This demands geometry-specific process parameters that enable a near-uniform thermal history throughout the build.

Through the collaborative PASSPORT project, TWI and ANSYS have explored a software solution for selecting process parameters for AlSi10Mg SLM parts, based on metallurgical characterization results.

With electronic components being used in harsher and more remote environments than they ever have before, predicting their operating lifetimes to prepare for maintenance or calculate warranty costs is critical. ANSYS Sherlock is the only physics-based reliability design software that provides fast and accurate product longevity predictabilition for electronic hardware (components, boards and systems) to mitigate thermal, mechanical and manufacturing risks. With Sherlock, you can predict the reliability lifetime early in the design stage, before you ever build a prototype.

ANSYS Discovery empowers engineers to innovate and test more designs in less time. Tightly coupled with your favorite CAD program, ANSYS Discovery drives unmatched design exploration, giving you the critical insights needed to make early design decisions that have maximum impact. Watch this dynamic video to learn how you can deliver new breakthroughs earlier in the design cycle than ever before.

This issue of ANSYS Advantage describes how organizations around the world are using explicit dynamics, automated design analysis, additive manufacturing and materials data to develop cutting-edge products more efficiently.

Titan Subsea Innovations used ANSYS Mechanical structural software to run finite element analysis (FEA) simulations on its imported 3D CAD models. The automatic contact detection feature, simplified meshing tools and intuitive graphical user interface enabled an easy setup of the simulation. Post-processing tools, such as stress path linearization and contact pressure mapping, delivered a simple and reliable assessment of how well the flange complied with applicable specifications and design criteria. When engineers modified a CAD model based on results, the simulation setup updated smoothly while maintaining all the parameters of the previous iteration.

Determination of noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) for systems with complex coupled physics presents many acoustics design challenges. Accurate prediction of noise and sound propagation plays a pivotal role in the efficient design of products across industries and applications. Simulation has become a very cost-effective approach for solving different wave propagation problems in a coupled way by solving fluid and structural domains simultaneously or in a sequential, uncoupled way by performing fluid/electromagnetic analysis followed by structural and then acoustics analysis.

ANSYS solutions are being widely used to solve aero-vibro, electromagnetic-vibro and MEMS-vibro coupling problems. Join us for this webinar to learn about ANSYS Mechanical solutions for acoustic modeling and simulation. In this session we will discuss the following topics:

• Coupling between flow pressure (using computational fluid dynamics) and vibro-acoustics (using finite element methods)
• Coupling between electromagnetic forces and vibro-acoustics
• Transfer of loading data from the time domain to the frequency domain
• Application example: prediction of windshield noise
• Application example: prediction of electric motor noise
• Far-field post processing