ANSYS 8-1 Release New Features

ANSYS Release 8.
1
New Feature Update
2003 ANSYS, Inc. ANSYS, Inc. Proprietary

ANSYS Release 8.1
New and Exiting Developments in:

Nonlinear Mechanics
Physics Coupling
Solver Performance
Meshing
CAD Integration
Optimization

ANSYS Release 8.1
This presentation is organized into four

primary parts highlighting new v8.1
features:
ANSYS Mechanical family of products. Mechanical
ANSYS Multiphysics Multiphysics

ANSYS Workbench Workbench
ANSYS DesignXplorer DesignXplorer

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ANSYS Release 8.1

Mechanical Products
New Features Update

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Release 8.1: New Features
Nonlinear analysis
Contact Setup and Convergence
Element Technology and Transient Dynamics
Materials Technology and Curve Fitting
Linear analysis
CMS, Constant Material Damping and Linear Dynamics
Enhancements
Usability and Miscellaneous
Usability and Other Enhancements
Undocumented Features
Solvers
PCG, DPCG
Sparse
Other solver enhancement

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Nonlinear Analysis

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Contact Setup and Convergence
Contact setup: Enhanced contact-pair management allows more efficient setup

and execution of a contact analysis.
Benefits
You can run a partial solution of the model in its initial configuration and postprocess
contact quantities (such as contact pressure, penetration, status, etc.) at time 0,
before the actual solution. The new capability allows you to identify contact
configurations that may be at risk for convergence difficulties.
You can reduce initial penetration or gap by physically moving contact nodes
towards the target surface.
Commands
New options on the CNCHECK command
Nonlinear diagnostics: To debug models that experience convergence difficulties

due to contact.
Benefits
New command options allow you to track specific contact quantities during the
solution (for example, result items such as contact penetration and chattering level,
and some contact setting parameters such as contact stiffness and pinball radius).
The contact data are computed on a per-contact-pair basis; that is, they represent a
maximum or minimum value for the specified quantity over the entire contact pair.
Commands
NLHIST command

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Contact Technology Diagnostics
View contact status before solving using CNCHECK,POST

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Setup Nonlinear Diagnostics Monitoring:

This step can be done either prior to running a solution or prior to executing a
restart after a convergence failure.
Commands:
/SOL
NLDIAG,NRRE,1
NLDIAG,EFLG,1

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Results Variables: Track solution variables during SOLVE

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Run the Solution and while the solution is running, activate results tracker
plots of the variables created.
These graphs should be updating as the solution progresses.

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Plot NR Residuals during convergence problems.

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Other Contact Enhancements
An augmented Lagrange algorithm (when KEYOPT(2) = 0) improves

convergence with very difficult models. Likewise, improved contact stiffness
(which updates automatically per iteration when KEYOPT(10) = 2) allows
improved convergence and more accurate solutions.
This release adds CEINTF logic for solid-solid assemblies using MPC contact,
providing more accurate solutions. Improved overconstraint detection for MPC
contact allows more complex MPC models to solve successfully.
Node-to-surface contact now fully supports all the same multi-physics DOFs that
surface-to-surface contact supports.
Benefits
This offers users more contact options and, when applicable, the possibility of
more efficient multi-physics runs.

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Multiphysics Contact Enhancements

Consider the FEA simulation of a resistance spot weld process using the plane67
thermal-electric elements and contact.
Using conventional surface to surface contact, the model takes 65 iterations to
converge.
Using node-to-surface contact, this same model converges in only 37 iterations.
Copper
Electrodes
Steel Plates
Voltage Distribution Temperature Distribution

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Element Technology
In beam design, it is customary to employ components of stress that contribute to axial

loads and bending in each direction separately. To that end, the BEAM188/BEAM189
elements now provide a linearized stress output as part of the SMISC output record.

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Element Technology
The MPC184 multipoint constraint element's Revolute Joint and Universal Joint
options now allow nonlinear stiffness, damping, and hysteretic friction on the
unrestricted components of relative motion of the joints.
MPC184 element with the Rigid option (KEYOPT(1) = 1) is now supported in

modal and prestressed modal analyses using the Block Lanczos and QRDAMP
eigensolvers (MODOPT,LANB and MODOPT,QRDAMP), and in modal
harmonic and modal transient analyses (HROPT,MSUP and TRNOPT,MSUP).

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Transient Dynamics
HHT Time-Integration: When performing a full transient structural

analysis, you can now select the HHT time-integration method as an
alternative to the default Newmark method.
Benefits:
The HHT method offers better numerical damping capability, providing
controllable numerical damping in the higher frequency modes while maintaining
accuracy in the important low frequency modes.
Commands:
To activate the HHT time-integration method, set TINTOPT = HHT on the
TRNOPT command and input related integration parameters via the TINTP
command. From within the ANSYS GUI, you can access these settings via the
Solution Controls dialog box.

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Transient Dynamics
You can now issue a PRNSOL or PLNSOL command to list or plot, respectively,
the nodal velocity and nodal acceleration in the /POST1 postprocessor as you
would with a nodal displacement solution. You can also issue a PRVAR or
PLVAR command to list or plot, respectively, the time history of velocity and
acceleration for a specified node in the /POST26 postprocessor.

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Materials Technology
Gasket Transverse Shear: Transverse shear stiffness can now be included as a

material property for gasket elements (INTER192 -INTER194). By default,
gasket elements account for through-thickness behavior only, but now you can
enable the transverse shear stress option by setting KEYOPT(2) = 1.
Benefits
Use of this option helps to eliminate rigid body motion of the gasket. In previous
releases this rigid body motion had to be restricted by restraining the DOF in the
transverse direction.
Commands
You can define transverse shear stiffness via the gasket material command
TB,GASKET with TBOPT = TSS. By default, stable stiffness is used if the
transverse shear stiffness is not defined.

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Materials Technology
As with gasket pressure, transverse shear stress is also available for post
processing via conventional procedures.
By GUI method:
Or by commands method:
Model Deflections
PLNSOL, GKS,XY
PLESOL, GKS,XY

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Curve Fitting Enhancement
The Curve Fitting Tool (TBFT) now allows selected coefficients to be fixed. This
is very useful, especially for viscoelasticity and creep.
Benefits
Viscoelasticity: Solve for one temperature, fix all of the coefficients except for the
shift coefficients and then solve for each new temperature. This simplifies the
solution.
Creep: If the creep data is temperature independent, set the temperature

coefficient to zero and fix it.
Hyperelasticity: First solve for a lower order model (e.g., 2 nd order Ogden), then
solve for a higher order model (e.g., 3 rd order Ogden) after fixing the first few
coefficients of the lower order model (e.g., the first 4 coefficients from the 2 nd
order Ogden model).

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Curve Fitting Enhancement

Fix constants
Vary constants

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Linear Dynamics

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CMS Analysis
General Idea
Modal Representation: Describe the motion separately over each of the
substructures (components).
Synthesis: Constrain the components to work together as a single structure
by satisfying inter-component compatibility and equilibrium constraints.
Why use CMS ?
Flexibility: If only a part of a large assembly needs redesigned, such as the
landing gear of an aircraft assembly, CMS provides the flexibility to just
modify that Component, landing gear in this case, and do a CMS use pass
run to get the response of the full assembly.
Better Preliminary Analyses: For example, car companies have CMS files
for various car body parts such as roofs, doors panels, et al. Using CMS
they are able to find out the response of a full model car configuration by
selecting a door and a roof from different door and roof models that they
already have CAE data for.
Optimize Designs: Different groups are free to design different parts
allowing for optimized designs

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CMS Enhancement
Free-interface method: ANSYS now supports the free-interface CMS analysis

method. The new method allows unconstrained interface nodes and considers
rigid body modes in the CMS superelement generation pass.
Benefits
While the fixed-interface method (ANSYS 8.0) is preferable in most CMS
analyses, ANSYS recommends the free-interface method when your analysis
requires more accurate eigenvalues computed at the mid- to high-end of the
spectrum.
With the free-interface method, the matrix employed for CMS transformations is
different than that for the fixed-interface method
Expand all eigen modes: You can now expand CMS superelement eigen
modes modes 1 through N (that is, between a specified beginning and ending
time or frequency range) in a single solve step, instead of expanding a single
mode at each solve step.
Prestressed modal analysis with CMS superelements: The prestressed

condition of a component structure can now be accounted for in the CMS
superelement generation. Both fixed- and free-interface methods support the
generation of prestressed CMS superelements.

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CMS Example
PART2
PART3 The 2D tuning fork is already broken up

into three element components as
INTERFACE2 shown. Three nodal components also
exist that will be used to define the
INTERFACE3 SuperElement interfaces.
PART1
INTERFACE1

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CMS Generation Pass

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CMS Generation Pass

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CMS Use Pass
Can Include Pre-stress Effects

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CMS Use Pass

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CMS Expansion Pass

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CMS Post-Processing

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CMS Fixed Versus Free Method
Table of modal frequency results

Accuracy of CMS free interface method compared to CMS fixed interface method.
Frequencies (Hz) Error (%)

Modes Full Model CMS Fixed CMS Free CMS Fixed CMS Free
4 204.958 204.958 204.958 0.000 0.000
5 654.403 654.403 654.403 0.000 0.000
6 1,326.91 1,326.91 1,326.91 0.000 0.000
7 2,118.13 2,118.16 2,118.13 0.001 0.000
8 3,023.30 3,023.36 3,023.30 0.002 0.000
9 3,427.08 3,427.13 3,427.08 0.001 0.000
10 5,117.47 5,117.63 5,117.47 0.003 0.000
11 6,216.89 6,217.32 6,216.90 0.007 0.000
12 9,227.01 9,227.88 9,227.01 0.009 0.000
13 10,277.0 10,278.2 10,277.0 0.012 0.000
14 13,691.1 13,694.3 13,691.1 0.023 0.000
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PSD Analysis and Constant Material Damping
Equivalent Stress for PSD Analysis: The calculation of equivalent stress

(SEQV) has been improved for random vibration (PSD) analyses using the
Segalman-Reese algorithm. Principal stresses and stress intensity (S1, S2, S3,
and SINT) are no longer available.
Support is now available for full (ANTYPE,HARM and HROPT,FULL) and modal
harmonic (ANTYPE,HARM and HROPT,MSUP) analyses when several materials,
each having their own damping ratio that remains constant with respect to the
excitation frequency, are present. An enhanced MP command supports the new
capability.
When constant damping ratios are specified (DMPRAT and MP,DMPR) in a frequency-
response analysis, they are incorporated into the damping matrix automatically.
Only the QR damped eigensolver (MOPOPT,QRDA) supports the material-dependent

constant damping ratio application in modal superposition harmonic analyses.
Power Spectral Density (PSD) and Multi-Point Response Spectrum (MPRS) analyses do
not support constant material damping for multiple materials

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Usability and Miscellaneous

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Post-Processing GUI Changes

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Usability
Tabular loading: Tabular loads can now support loading as a function of X, Y or Z in a

local coordinate system. The local coordinate system can be in the Cartesian, Cylindrical or
Spherical coordinate system. When defining the table parameter, the coordinate system ID
should also be specified (*DIM).
Macro and command file error handling: If a macro or /INPUT (File > Read Input
From) of a command file is executed in the wrong module, repeated warnings occur.
(For example, warnings appear if you try to issue a PLNSOL command in /PREP7 because
PLNSOL is not a valid command, abbreviation or macro in the preprecessor.)
Upon encountering five such warnings, a dialog now appears allowing you to stop
and exit the macro or /INPUT mode cleanly. You can modify the new behavior via a
new /NERR command option.

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Other Enhancements
Heat Transfer
PLANE55 -- A thickness option has been added for this element. This option
is useful for applications (such as turbomachinery) where 2-D models need
to be coupled with 3-D regions.
SOLID87 -- An option (KEYOPT(5) = 1) has been added to use a consistent

surface convection load matrix. The new option provides a more accurate
solution on surfaces with large thermal gradients.

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Undocumented Features
The following command is no longer documented and may be removed from

ANSYS at a future date:
GCGEN -- This command was valid only with the CONTAC48 and CONTAC49
elements, which are also no longer documented as of this release
The following elements are no longer documented and may be removed from
ANSYS at a future date:
CONTACxx -- Old inputs using the following contact elements will continue to
work, but you should update them to use the newer element:
Undocumented Element Replace With

CONTAC48
CONTAC49 CONTA175
CONTAC26

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Solvers

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Solver Enhancements
DPCG and PCG solvers now support large deformation and strain (NLGEOM,ON
command) when memory saving is activated (MSAVE,ON).
The Lanczos eigensolver now supports modal analysis for elements using u-P
formulation options:
Constraint MPC184 element and the

180 series of new generation continuum elements which use u-P options.
The u-P formulation elements can now be used in analysis types which use
eigensolutions as a basis. These include modal superposition harmonics, modal
superposition transient, and PSD analyses.
Enhancements to memory and data handling, with the memory-saving option

(MSAVE,ON) and PCG or DPCG solvers;
Solve very large static analyses, often with as many as 100 millions DOFs.
The line search option (LNSRCH,ON) has been enhanced to handle contact and
plasticity problems more efficiently;
Resulting in overall savings of 10 percent in cumulative iterations for a run.

Line searching itself is also faster, particularly for models using elements with
extra shapes or enhanced strain formulations.
Multiphysics
ANSYS Multiphysics
(Including ANSYS Emag & FLOTRAN CFD)
V8.1 New Features

Multiphysics
Multiphysics Topics
Low Frequency Electromagnetics

Electric Field Elements
Current loading for SOLID117
High Frequency Electromagnetics
Phased Array Antenna Analysis
Multi-field Solver
Speed & efficiency enhancements
FLOTRAN
Turbulence models
Conjugate Heat Transfer

Multiphysics
Low Frequency
Electromagnetics
V8.1 New Features

Multiphysics
New Electric Field Analysis Capabilities
Analysis Requirement:
Many real world electric field applications use lossy (mildly conductive)
dielectric materials and require a quasistatic electric analysis to
simultaneously consider capacitive and conduction effects.
New Features to Meet Requirement:

Three new high-order electric elements, PLANE230, SOLID231, and
SOLID232, are now available for a low frequency electric field analysis.
The elements are applicable to steady-state electric conduction, time-
harmonic and transient quasistatic electric field analyses.
The electrostatic PLANE121, SOLID122 and SOLID123 elements have
been enhanced to support a time-harmonic quasistatic analysis.
Capability:
You can now perform an electric field analysis that simultaneously takes
into account the conduction and capacitive effects.
The new and enhanced elements also allow you to transfer the calculated
electric current and conduction or dielectric heating as sources for
subsequent magnetic and thermal analyses respectively.
Multiphysics
New Electric Field Analysis Applications
General Applications:
Lossy capacitors
Microwave passive components (when full-wave analysis can be avoided)
Transient effects in semiconductor devices
High voltage insulators
Charge injection devices
Dielectric heating
Particle detection
Biotissue Medical Applications:
Detection of malignant tissue
Electric Impedance Tomography (EIT)
Electromyography (EMG) test muscle response to nervous (electric)
stimulation
Angiography help locate and characterize atherosclerotic lesions
Ablation RF heating of cardiac tissue to cure rhythm disturbances
Multiphysics
New 23X Electric Field Elements
PLANE230, SOLID231, SOLID232

High-order shape functions
Material properties:
resistivity - MP,RSVX (RSVY,RSVZ)
permittivity - MP,PERX (PERY,PERZ) valid for transient and harmonic analyses
loss tangent - MP,LSST valid for harmonic analysis only
Reaction solution:
electric current (AMPS)
Analyses:
static (steady-state current conduction analysis)
transient (quasistatic)
harmonic (quasistatic)
Load transfer
heat generation rate to a thermal analysis
electric current to a magnetic analysis

Multiphysics
23X Elements Input Summary
PLANE230 SOLID231 SOLID232

Name 2-D 8-node 3-D 20-node 3-D 10-node
electric solid
Geometry
Product MP,EM,PP,ED
DOF electric scalar potential (VOLT)
Reaction total (conduction + displacement) electric current (AMPS)
Material RSVX, RSVY, PERX, PERY, LSST

Properties RSVZ, PERZ
0 - Plane
KEYOPT(3)
1-Axisymmetric

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Enhanced 12X Electrostatic Elements
PLANE121, SOLID122, SOLID123 Enhancements in red text!
High-order shape functions

Material properties:
relative permittivity MP,PERX (PERY,PERZ)
loss tangent - MP,LSST valid for harmonic analysis only
resistivity - MP,RSVX (RSVY,RSVZ) valid for harmonic analysis only
Reaction solution:
electric charge (CHRG)
Analyses:
static
harmonic (quasistatic)
Load transfer
electrostatic forces to a structural analysis
heat generation rate to a thermal analysis
total current to a magnetic analysis

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12X Elements Input Summary
PLANE121 SOLID122 SOLID123

Name 2-D 8-node 3-D 20-node 3-D 10-node
electrostatic solid
Geometry
Product MP,EM,PP,ED
DOF electric scalar potential (VOLT)
Reaction electric charge current (CHRG)
Material RSVX, RSVY, PERX, PERY, LSST

Properties RSVZ, PERZ
0 - Plane
KEYOPT(3)
1-Axisymmetric
KEYOPT(4) 0 - CS parallel to global, 1 - CS based on the I-J side
0 basic printout, 1 basic solution at int. pts, 2 nodal field
KEYOPT(5)
printout

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23X Elements GUI

PLANE230, SOLID231, SOLID232 added to Library of Element Types as Electric
Conduction elements
Menu path:
Main Menu>Preprocessor>Element Type>Add/Edit/Delete

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23X,12X Elements ANTYPE GUI
PLANE230, SOLID231, SOLID232 support steady-state, harmonic, and

transient analyses
PLANE121, SOLID122, SOLID123 support static and harmonic analyses
Menu Paths:
Main Menu>Preprocessor>Loads>Analysis Type>New Analysis
Main Menu>Solution>Analysis Type>New Analysis

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Electromagnetics Analysis Elements

Product Material Properties
Emag
Analysis Multiphysics
Emag
Electric conduction
Dielectric Magnetic
Class Dielectric losses
Solid5,Solid98,Solid96
Plane121 Plane230,Solid231,Solid232 (MAG-FLUX)
Static or Solid122 (VOLT-AMPS) Plane13,Plane53,Solid97
Y Y
Steady-state Solid123 Thermo-electric elements Solid117
(VOLT-CHRG) (VOLT-TEMP) (AX,AY,AZ
CSGX,CSGY,CSGZ)
Harmonic analysis
Plane121,Solid122,Solid123
LF Emag (VOLT-CHRG) Plane13,Plane53,Solid97,Solid117
Harmonic
Harmonic Y Y
Transient & Harmonic analysis: (AX,AY,AZ CSGX,CSGY,CSGZ VOLT AMPS)
Transient
Transient
Plane230,Solid231,Solid232
(VOLT-AMPS)
HF Emag
HF118, HF119, HF120
Modal
Modal N Y
(AX CSGX)
Harmonic
Harmonic

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Example steady state electric field analysis
A current I is applied at two point electrodes (e) on a thin conducting disk as

shown in the figure:
e
I
Problem parameters:
disk radius 20 cm I
point electrode seperation 20 cm
current I=1 mA
disk resistivity =100 *m
Analysis requirement: Find the potential and dc-current distributions in the disk
FEA Model:
Triangular PLANE230 electric elements
23,789 nodes, 11766 elements

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Steady-State Electric Analysis - Results
Electric potential (VOLT) distribution
Electric current density (JC) distribution

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Example Transient Electric Field Analysis
Problem Description:
A capacitor has 2 separate layers of lossy dielectric materials between its plates.
Dielectric material 1: 1cm thick, r = 2, = 2E8
Dielectric material 2: 2 cm thick, r =4, = 8E8
A 1V potential is applied across the electrodes over a 1ms period of time
FEA Model:
2D triangular mesh of PLANE230 electric field elements.
Electrodes are left and right hand boundaries of mesh
Analysis Objective:
Determine time-varying results for:
Voltage (VOLT)
Conduction current density (JC) 5 cm
Electric field strength (EF)
1 cm 2 cm
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Transient Electric Field Analysis Results
Time varying contours of Time varying vectors of electric

voltage field strength EF
Note: As the charge accumulates on material interface, the voltage gradient

across more conductive material on left diminishes.
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Transient Electric Field Analysis Results
Comparison of analytical and ANSYS computed results:

Multiphysics
New SOURC36 Capability
Prior to release 8.1, SOURC36 meshless current source primitives could only be
used in combination with magnetic scalar potential (MVP) elements (SOLID5,
SOLID96, SOLID98).
Enhancement:
SOURC36 may now serve as a current source for the 3D edge flux potential
elements (SOLID117)
This capability applies to 3-D static analyses only.
Benefit:
Easy to use, more efficient coil analysis when using SOLID117 elements.
The underlying region can be meshed separately from the coils, and the coils
described conveniently with SOURC36 primitives. Solenoidal conditions are
automatically satisfied.
The current can be input to SOLID117 elements via the CUR real constant on
SOURC36, much easier than the alternative method involving manually defining
body loads on each element.

Multiphysics
SOURC36 Analysis Example
Quarter symmetry model of solenoid using source36 for coil:
yoke
SOURC36 coil
primitive
Space in
which coil
resides
armature

Multiphysics
SOURC36 Analysis Example
Quarter symmetry model of solenoid magnetic flux density (vectors) results

using source36 for coil:

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High Frequency Electromagnetics
V8.1 New Features

Multiphysics
New Phased Array Capability
Many real world HF antennas consist of geometric arrays of smaller identical
antennas with different transmit phases. This approach improves antenna
sensitivity, and also allows dynamic control over the antenna directional
properties.
New Features to Meet Requirement:

High-frequency electromagnetic elements (HF119, HF120) support periodic
boundary conditions
Uses Floquets periodic principle to allow phased array antenna analyses.
Uses far field extension to compute radiation pattern and directive gain of
array.
Benefit:
Drastic reduction in problem size and resulting increase in solution speed.
Ability to solve class of antenna radiation problems previously beyond our
scope!

Multiphysics
Phased Array Analysis Example
Antenna consisting of 25 X 25 array and single cell modeled

Multiphysics
Phased Array Results
Antenna directive gain for single cell & full 25 X 25 array

Multiphysics
Phased Array Results
Animation of Y component of electric field for single array cell

Multiphysics
Multi-field Solver
V8.1 New Features

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Multi-field Solver Enhancements
Enhanced Feature:
The following enhancements have been made to the dissimilar mesh mapping
aspects of the multifield solver:
Mapping information can be saved to a file for a later restart so that costly
mapping calculations do not have to be repeated, especially for volumetric load
transfer.
The mapping calculation can occur before issuing the SOLVE command (i.e. in
/PREP7 or /SOLU).
Mapping diagnostics are improved for curved geometry.
The bucket search algorithm is more robust than the global search algorithm, and
is now the default algorithm for mapping.
Benefits:
Overall increase in solution speed and efficiency of the Multi-field solver.
Solution speed gains of up to 17% have been measured on three field problems.
Largest gains can be expected for applications coupling more fields with greater
differences between each fields meshes, such as Fluid-solid interaction and RF-
thermal heating.

Multiphysics
FLOTRAN Turbulence
Models & Conjugate
Heat Transfer
V8.1 New Features

Multiphysics
FLOTRAN Heat Transfer Enhancements
New Features:
Two new turbulence models have been added to FLOTRAN
k- Model
Shear Stress Transport (SST) Model
Applicable to FLUID141 and FLUID142 Elements:
Benefits:
FLOTRAN now has improved solution accuracy for heat transfer under
turbulent conditions:
When the turbulence boundary layer is not well-resolved, a thermal
stabilization procedure can be invoked to alleviate temperature-oscillations
near walls.
When the turbulent boundary layer is well-resolved, new k- and SST
turbulence models can be invoked to predict turbulent heat transfer in the
presence of adverse pressure gradients.
The SST model combines the advantages of both the k- model and the k- models.
Using a blending function, the SST model activates the k- model near walls and the
k-e model far away from the walls.
Multiphysics
FLOTRAN Heat Transfer Example
Conjugate Heat Transfer problem involving turbulent flow through a 90

degree bend. Fluid tetrahedral mesh shown below:
Inlet Velocity 0.5 m/sec

Inlet Temperature 333K
Outlet Condition
P=0

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FLOTRAN Heat Transfer Example
Fluid temperature results or SST turbulence model.

Multiphysics
FLOTRAN SST Model versus K-Epsilon
Detail of recirculation zone, Fluid velocity vectors.

SST model accurately predicts secondary recirculation zone.
K-Epsilon does not.
SST Turbulence Model
K-Epsilon Turbulence Model

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FLOTRAN SST Model versus K-Epsilon
Detail of recirculation zone, Fluid temperature.

SST model MATCHES experimental results in secondary recirculation zone.
K-Epsilon does not.

SST Turbulence Model
K-Epsilon Turbulence Model

Workbench
ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

Workbench
Workbench Start-up
ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

Workbench
Workbench Start Page
Improved Ease of Use

Direct Access to
Workbench Windows
Project Page Available
for Managing Files
Geometry Accessed from

Simulation Window
Active CAD Systems
Files
Workbench
Workbench Options Menu
Global Workbench Options Control

Common Settings for All Applications
Unique Preferences That are Application Specific

Workbench
Workbench Options Menu
Mouse View Control Settings

Set Same as CAD Systems
Unique Preferences
View Operations Supported
Rotate
Pan
Zoom
Box Zoom

Workbench
Non-Linear Materials
ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

Workbench
Nonlinear Materials
Bilinear Stress-Strain
Bilinear Isotropic
Hardening Model
Specify:
Yield Stress
Tangent Modulus

Workbench
Nonlinear Materials
Multilinear Stress-Strain
Multilinear Isotropic
Hardening Model
Specify:
Tabular entry of stress-
strain data.

Workbench
Solution Feedback and Results
ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

Workbench
Convergence History
Solution Output Object

Force
Max DOF Increment
Line Search Value
Time Increment

Workbench
Result Tracker
Provides displacement or
contact result plots.
Return Newton-Raphson
residual forces
Helps in determining the
cause of convergence
failures in nonlinear
analyses.

Workbench
Result Tracker Types
Directional Deformations (x, y, z)

Contact
Number Contacting
Number Sticking
Pressure
Penetration
Gap
Frictional Stress
Sliding Distance
Chattering
Elastic Slip
Normal Stiffness
Max Tangential Stiffness
Min Tangential Stiffness
Resulting Pinball
Workbench
Contact Result Tool
A Contact Tool object can be

added to a Solution folder
Allows users to conveniently
scope contact results to a
common selection of geometry
or contact regions.

Workbench
Contact Tool - Reactions
Reactions for all

contact pairs are
summarized in the
worksheet view.

Workbench
Command Objects
Users familiar with ANSYS commands and APDL

programming can now enter commands directly
Commands objects.
After inserting a Commands object at the
Environment or Solution level, the Worksheet tab
transforms to a text editing window for entering the
commands.

Workbench
Command Objects
Multiple instances are allowed

Command objects can be
exported or inserted
Parametric output back to WB

Workbench
Meshing
ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

Workbench
Mesh Refinement Control
Sphere of Influence
Applied to a face
Anchored to a user
defined coordinate
system
Sphere of Influence
Applied to a vertex

Workbench
Tri / Surface Meshing Algorithms
Better Transitions in 3D Advancing Front

Improved Point Placement for Delaunay

Workbench
Automatic Contact Sizing
With Contact Sizing
No Contact Sizing
Workbench
Automatic Contact Sizing

Workbench
Contact Size Mesh
DragnDrop contact
regions from
Contact Folder to
Mesh Folder
Absolute
(default) or
Relative Sizing
Options
Workbench
Proximity Control
Performs Edge proximity

pre-refinement for non- With Proximity
swept models
May increase model size
Without Proximity
Workbench
CAD Integration
ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

Workbench
CAD System Updates
Catia V5 R12
UG NX2
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
Autodesk Inventor 8
Autodesk Mechanical
Desktop 2004 DX
SolidWorks 2004
Solid Edge 15
Parasolid 15.1
ACIS R12

Workbench
CAD Integration
Smart Updates
Speed up the assembly update by updating only
components that have been modified
Implemented for Unigraphics and Autodesk
Inventor
A user preference to turn on Smart Update is
available in Start Page under Advanced Geometry
Preferences and the Geometry node details view
Attach and Update a model that is open in
ProEngineer from Intralink

Workbench
Remote Solutions
ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

Workbench
Overview - Remote Solving
Can be used on the client machine

Allows work in other branches while solving locally
Can use LSF to solve remotely
Servers
LSF
Localhost
CE (Beta) will allow remote solving without LSF
Submission
WB shutdown or switch allowed
Retrieval of queued jobs later in time
Numerous GUI changes for Preview 3

Workbench
Remote Solving
Can solve on local machine,

LSF cluster or UNIX server
Each Solution can be

sent to a different
server
Analysis license can
be selected
Workbench
Remote Solving
Each remote option has

defaults in the Options dialog

Workbench
Remote Solving
The status page shows all submitted jobs

Workbench
Miscellaneous Simulation Features
ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

Workbench
Miscellaneous Enhancements
Right Mouse Button rename contact, results, etc.

Users can change the default name of a contact region to
match corresponding descriptive names for items in the
Geometry branch of the tree that make up the contact region.
Clicking the right mouse button on a contact region and
choosing Rename Based on Geometry in the context menu
changes the name of that contact region.
Clicking the right mouse button on the Contact branch and
choosing the same option changes the names of all contact
regions under the branch.
Configurable contact worksheet
When viewing a worksheet of a Contact folder or a Contact
Reactions item, users now have the ability to select which
columns to display in the worksheet table.
The choice is made in a context menu through a right mouse
button click inside the worksheet table.

Workbench
Right Mouse Button flip contact target and contact

For asymmetric contact, a useful enhancement at this
release is the ability to flip contact and target faces or edges
in a contact region.
This feature is available through a right mouse click on the
contact region and choice of the Flip Contact/Target context
menu item.
All contact and target items displayed under Scope in the
Details View are reversed.
Point mass
Users can apply a Point Mass to the model from the
Geometry object.
The location of a point mass can be anywhere in space and
it can be defined in a local coordinate system.

Workbench
Loads in local coordinate system

Forces, remote forces, bearing loads, moments and given
displacements can now be defined in a local coordinate system.
With this capability, users no longer need to transform the loads
and given displacements into the global coordinate system
manually.
When any of these loads or given displacements are defined by
components in the Details View, a new drop down menu is
available from which users select a specific coordinate system
to be applied.
Contact results in solution combinations
A Contact Tool object can now be added to a Solution or
Solution Combination folder that allows users to conveniently
scope contact results to a common selection of geometry or
contact regions.
Using a Contact Tool, all possible contact results can be
investigated at one time for a given scoping.

Workbench
Simulation Beta Features
ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

Workbench
Mesh Matching (Beta)
Works for tet meshes

only not needed for
sweeping. No support
for Hex Dominant
First surface picked is
master or HiSector
Need a coordinate
system to define sector
Topology must match
exactly

Workbench
Mesh Matching (Beta)

Workbench
Low Frequency Electromagnetics

Simulation Beta Features
ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

Workbench
Objectives - WB LF Emag
Objectives:
Provide full featured low frequency electromagnetics analysis
capability in WorkBench.
Accessed with ANSYS Emag (core or enabled task) or ANSYS
Multiphysics license key.
DM Enclosure for creation of field volume released at 8.0
Magnetostatics beta release ANSYS 8.1
Magnetostatics commercial release target ANSYS 9.0
Electrostatics and other LF electromagnetics capabilities will follow.

Workbench
WB LF Emag 8.1 Beta Features
Model setup with SOLID117

Air, iron (Keyopt(1)=0)
Solid conductor (Solenoidal formulation: Keyopt(1)=5)
Enclosure body automatically assigned AIR material
Emag unit conversions
Conductor Object with Voltage and Current Loading
Flux-parallel boundary condition
Materials:
Relative permittivity, resistivity
Results request:
B, H, F
Solution: Will solve a linear magnetostatics problem
Raster/Vector display option in Details View.
Workbench
WB LF Emag: Material Properties
Click mouse for zoom

Workbench
LF Emag Environment: Conductor
Click mouse for detail
Conductor object: Identifies conductors

for load application, inductance, and
postprocessing. Supports solid conductors
now for loads. Will support stranded
conductors as well at 9.0.
Loading: Tagged to Conductor. Supports

voltage and current loading for solid
conductor. Will support current loading
for stranded conductors

Workbench
LF Emag Solution: Displayed Results

Workbench
LF Emag: Vector & Contour Plots
Vector / Contour is selected in the

Solution objects Definition
Workbench
WB LF Emag 9.0 Features
Release 8.0 Beta features, plus:

Support stranded coils (SOURC36)
Support permanent magnets
Winding editor for machines (via SOURC36)
BH curve library
Automated electromagnetic Force & Torque
extraction tools.
Automated Inductance tool
Parameter sweep
displacement vs. force, torque or inductance

Workbench
Plane Stress (Beta)

Workbench
Axisymmetric (Beta)

Workbench
Beam Stress (Beta)
Direct
Min Bending
Max Bending
Min Combined
Max Combined

Workbench
Geometry - DesignModeler
ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

Workbench
DM - Multiple Treeview Selection
You can now select multiple items in the feature tree.

This allows you to perform operations on several items at
once. For example:
Suppress, unsuppress, and delete multiple
features at once
Hide and suppress multiple bodies

at once

Workbench
Cross Section Improvements
Several new options make aligning and

assigning cross sections easier and more
flexible.
Automatic alignment in global +Y direction
For unaligned edges, DM aligns the edge in the global
+Y direction if the default global +Z direction is invalid
Additional angle option
Rotate property rotates the alignment vector around the
edge by the specified angle

Workbench
Cross Section Improvements (cont)
Edge reversal
The Reverse Orientation
property allows you to define
the edge alignment with
respect to the opposite
endpoint
Direction Arrow
New direction arrow shows
alignment direction when
specifying the cross section
alignment
Workbench
Improved Display Options

The cross section alignment arrows and
solid representation can now be shown
together

Workbench
Easier Cross Section

Assignment
The cross sections are now
assigned to line bodies
through a combo box property
Vector Alignment for Cross
Sections
Cross section alignment may

also be specified by entering
vector coordinates

Workbench
Automatic Dimension Moving
Now, dimensions will move with the edges they measure.

In the following picture, if dimension V2 is increased, then
dimension H1 will automatically move up with the top edge
of the rectangle.
Automatic movement can be

turned on or off from the
dimensions Details Box.
Workbench
Surface Extension
The Surface Extension

feature extends surfaces to
fill gaps in between bodies.
Surfaces can be extended
by a fixed distance or up to
a bounding set of faces.

Workbench
Fill Feature
The Fill feature will

create a new frozen
body to fill the space
occupied by a hole or
cavity.
Useful for CFD and
Emag applications.

Workbench
Surfaces From Sketches Feature
Surfaces From Sketches allows you to quickly

and easily create surfaces directly from sketch
profiles.

Workbench
Import Options
New Import options

allow greater control
over imported
geometry.
The Process property
allows body filtering,
while geometry healing
options help clean up
poor geometry.

Workbench
Planar Bodies
Planar bodies are flat

surface bodies that lie in
the XYPlane.
They can be sent to the
Simulation tab for 2D
analysis.
Planar bodies have a
slightly different icon than
other surface bodies in
the Tree Views body list.

Workbench
More Modeling Improvements
Body Operation: Keep Option

You can choose to keep the selected bodies that are
used in a Boolean operation
Multiple Surface Support for Joint
Any number of surfaces can be selected to join in a
single Joint feature
Point Profiles for Skin/Loft
The Skin/Loft feature now accepts point profiles as
the start and/or end profile. See boat example below.
Point Feature by Coordinates
Points can be created from scratch by reading in
coordinates from a data file.

Workbench
More Modeling Improvements
Arc Center Alignment for Plane Feature

Now you can choose to position the plane origin at the
center of an arc on the boundary of the base face
Plane origin is placed at

the center of this arc
No Save Required for Parameter Manager

You no longer need to save the model in order
to begin using the parameter manager

DesignXplorer
Optimization - DesignXplorer
ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

DesignXplorer
DesignXplorer VT 8.1 Update
Topology Errors
Independent Soluton Type
Bonded MPC Contact Analysis in
DesignXplorer VT
Revised User Interface
Design For Six Sigma
Questions and Answers
DesignXplorer
Topology Errors -- Topology Errors shows the topology changes
that have caused DX VT to cut parameter ranges or fail to generate
a solution
DesignXplorer
Independent Soluton Type -- Workbench now supports the
Independent Solution Type which evaluates the derivatives assuming
that the input variables are independent. This option is
recommended when you have more than 7 geometric parameters.
DesignXplorer
Bonded MPC Contact Analysis in DX VT -- DesignXplorer VT now
supports bonded MPC contact analysis for Surface-to-Surface
Contact*
* - ANSYS
8.1 Service
Pack #1
DesignXplorer
Revised User Interface -- DesignXplorer features a re-design of the
user interface, intended to simplify and streamline the process of
creating and accessing data.
View
Selector
View Sub
Options
View
Details
DesignXplorer
Design for Six Sigma Analysis -- Design for Six Sigma is a
technique that determines the extent to which uncertainties with
respect to input parameters affect the finite element analysis results
DesignXplorer
Design for Six Sigma Analysis Input Distributions
DesignXplorer
Design for Six Sigma Analysis Output; Histograms, Probability Tables
DesignXplorer
Design for Six Sigma Analysis Output; CDF, Probability Tables

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New and Exiting Developments in:

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This presentation is organized into four

ANSYS Multiphysics Multiphysics

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ANSYS Release 8.1

New Features Update

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Contact setup: Enhanced contact-pair management allows more efficient setup

Nonlinear diagnostics: To debug models that experience convergence difficulties

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Contact Technology Diagnostics

View contact status before solving using CNCHECK,POST

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Contact Technology Diagnostics

Setup Nonlinear Diagnostics Monitoring:

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Contact Technology Diagnostics

Results Variables: Track solution variables during SOLVE

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Contact Technology Diagnostics

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Contact Technology Diagnostics

Plot NR Residuals during convergence problems.

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An augmented Lagrange algorithm (when KEYOPT(2) = 0) improves

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Multiphysics Contact Enhancements

Voltage Distribution Temperature Distribution

In beam design, it is customary to employ components of stress that contribute to axial

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MPC184 element with the Rigid option (KEYOPT(1) = 1) is now supported in

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HHT Time-Integration: When performing a full transient structural

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Gasket Transverse Shear: Transverse shear stiffness can now be included as a

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Creep: If the creep data is temperature independent, set the temperature

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Curve Fitting Enhancement

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Free-interface method: ANSYS now supports the free-interface CMS analysis

Prestressed modal analysis with CMS superelements: The prestressed

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PART3 The 2D tuning fork is already broken up

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Can Include Pre-stress Effects

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Table of modal frequency results

Frequencies (Hz) Error (%)

Equivalent Stress for PSD Analysis: The calculation of equivalent stress

Only the QR damped eigensolver (MOPOPT,QRDA) supports the material-dependent