Introduction to ANSYS nCode DesignLife

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Lecture 1: Introduction

Introduction to ANSYS nCode DesignLife

Welcome

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Welcome to Introduction to ANSYS nCode DesignLife training course

This training course is intended to be an introduction to the basics of the ANSYS nCode DesignLife (DL) product
Training Manual is an exact copy of the slides

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About ANSYS, Inc.

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ANSYS, Inc. develops the ANSYS family of simulation software

global headquarters in Canonsburg, PA (near Pittsburgh) worldwide development and sales offices publicly traded on NASDAQ stock exchange under ANSS for additional company information as well as descriptions and schedules for other training courses visit www.ansys.com

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ANSYS Family of Products

ANSYS Workbench

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powerful interface for hosting ANSYS and third-party CAE tools Some Workbench products
ANSYS Design Modeler used to create and modify CAD

geometry for use by solvers

ANSYS Mechanical used to perform structural and thermal analyses using the MAPDL solver
ANSYS Mechanical APDL used to perform advanced mechanical and multiphysics analyses using the traditional command driven interface ANSYS nCode DesignLife leading CAE durability software developed by HBM nCode to operate on ANSYS WB interface
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About HBM nCode

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HBM nCode has been developing durability software products for more than 25 years
nCode GlyphWorks nCode DesignLife nCode Automation nCode CDS

World-wide leading developer of durability software

USA headquarters located in Southfield, MI (near Detroit)
worldwide development and sales offices

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ANSYS nCode DesignLife Packages

ANSYS nCode DesignLife Standard

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base package with Stress-Life (SN) and Strain-Life (EN) analysis engines

Four add-on packages (require additional license)

ANSYS nCode DesignLife Vibration
vibration fatigue for swept sine and PSD loadings

ANSYS nCode DesignLife Accelerated Testing

simulate accelerated virtual and physical tests

ANSYS nCode DesignLife Welds

fatigue evaluation of seam and spot welds

ANSYS nCode DesignLife Parallelization

multi-threaded and licensed per core one core included in standard package only applicable for SMP

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ANSYS nCode DesignLife

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ANSYS nCode DesignLife is a CAE durability software product developed

by HBM nCode and data integrated into the Workbench platform Windows and Linux versions finite element (FE) based CAE fatigue tool
performs fatigue evaluation using FE results (e.g., ANSYS .rst file)

seamlessly integrated into Workbench

easy communication with ANSYS Mechanical predefined WB analysis systems WB file management Engineering Data

does not use ANSYS license - uses HBM nCode license

Equivalent functionality as HBM nCode DesignLife

industry leading CAE durability software product full access to standalone version of DesignLife
standalone version is not integrated into WB
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What is Fatigue?

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Fatigue damage is the initiation and/or growth of a crack under fluctuating loading
component seems to lose strength after multiple load applications
appears to get tired, hence the name fatigue

cracks are caused by cyclic plastic deformation in localized areas failures occur at stress levels insufficient to cause failure in a single application

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Why Assess Fatigue?

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Almost all structural components are subjected to some type of repeated or varying loading Difficult to detect progressive deterioration during fatigue process
damage is cumulative and unrecoverable catastrophic failures can occur without warning

1982 Battelle study estimated that between 80-90% of all structural failures have a fatigue mechanism
estimated annual cost in the US was $1.5B
30 years ago!

more recent cost estimates are in the order of $400B annually

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Example of Fatigue Failure

de Havilland Comet - first jet airliner (1949)
flew higher than previous planes suffered two tragic in-flight fatigue failures

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cracks initiated at sharp corners and propagated to failure failure of pressurized fuselage caused total structural collapse
68 people killed
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Summary
ANSYS nCode DesignLife
developed by HBM nCode equivalent functionality as HBM nCode DesignLife
industry leading CAE durability software

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seamlessly integrated into ANSYS Workbench easy communication with ANSYS Mechanical

Fatigue is the initiation and/or growth of a crack under cyclic loading

Estimated 80-90% of all structural failures have a fatigue mechanism

Fatigue failures occur at stress levels insufficient to cause failure in a single application
difficult to detect progressive deterioration during fatigue process catastrophic failures can occur without warning
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