8.

1 New Features

ANSYS Release 8.1

New Feature Update

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8.1 New Features

New and Exiting Developments in:

Nonlinear Mechanics
Physics Coupling
Solver Performance
Meshing
CAD Integration
Optimization

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8.1 New Features

This presentation is organized into four

primary parts highlighting new v8.1
features:
ANSYS Mechanical family of products.
ANSYS Multiphysics
ANSYS Workbench
ANSYS DesignXplorer
Parallel Performance

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Multiphysics
Workbench
DesignXplorer
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ANSYS Release 8.1

Mechanical Products

New Features Update

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Release 8.1: New Features

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

8.1 New Features

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

8.1 New Features

View contact status before solving using CNCHECK,POST

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Contact Technology Diagnostics

8.1 New Features

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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Contact Technology Diagnostics

8.1 New Features

Results Variables: Track solution variables during SOLVE

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Contact Technology Diagnostics

8.1 New Features

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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Contact Technology Diagnostics

8.1 New Features

Plot NR Residuals during convergence problems.

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Other Contact Enhancements

8.1 New Features

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

8.1 New Features

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
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Element Technology
8.1 New Features

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
8.1 New Features

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
8.1 New Features

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
8.1 New Features

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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
8.1 New Features

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
8.1 New Features

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

8.1 New Features

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., 2nd order Ogden), then
solve for a higher order model (e.g., 3rd order Ogden) after fixing the first few
coefficients of the lower order model (e.g., the first 4 coefficients from the 2nd
order Ogden model).

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Curve Fitting Enhancement

8.1 New Features

Fix constants

Vary constants

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Linear Dynamics

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CMS Analysis
8.1 New Features

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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
8.1 New Features

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
8.1 New Features

PART2

PART3

The 2D tuning fork is already broken up

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

INTERFACE2
INTERFACE3

PART1
INTERFACE1
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CMS Generation Pass

8.1 New Features

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CMS Generation Pass

8.1 New Features

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CMS Use Pass

8.1 New Features

Can Include Pre-stress Effects

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CMS Use Pass

8.1 New Features

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CMS Expansion Pass

8.1 New Features

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CMS Post-Processing
8.1 New Features

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CMS Fixed Versus Free Method

8.1 New Features

Table of modal frequency results

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

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Error (%)

Modes

Full Model

CMS Fixed

CMS Free

CMS Fixed

CMS Free

204.958

204.958

204.958

0.000

0.000

654.403

654.403

654.403

0.000

0.000

1,326.91

1,326.91

1,326.91

0.000

0.000

2,118.13

2,118.16

2,118.13

0.001

0.000

3,023.30

3,023.36

3,023.30

0.002

0.000

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

8.1 New Features

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.

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When constant damping ratios are specified (DMPRAT and MP,DMPR) in a frequencyresponse analysis, they are incorporated into the damping matrix automatically.

Only the QR damped eigensolver (MODOPT,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

8.1 New Features

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Usability
8.1 New Features

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
8.1 New Features

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
8.1 New 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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8.1 New Features

Solvers

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Solver Enhancements
8.1 New Features

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;

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.

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8.1 New Features

ANSYS Multiphysics
(Including ANSYS Emag & FLOTRAN CFD)

V8.1 New Features

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Multiphysics Topics
8.1 New Features

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

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8.1 New Features

Low Frequency Electromagnetics

V8.1 New Features

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New Electric Field Analysis Capabilities

8.1 New Features

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, timeharmonic 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.

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New Electric Field Analysis Applications

8.1 New Features

General Applications:

Biotissue Medical 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
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
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New 23X Electric Field Elements

8.1 New Features

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

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heat generation rate to a thermal analysis

electric current to a magnetic analysis
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23X Elements Input Summary

8.1 New Features

Name

PLANE230

SOLID231

SOLID232

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
Properties

RSVX, RSVY, PERX, PERY, LSST

KEYOPT(3)

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RSVZ, PERZ
0 - Plane
1-Axisymmetric

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Enhanced 12X Electrostatic Elements

8.1 New Features

Enhancements in red italic text!

PLANE121, SOLID122, SOLID123

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

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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

8.1 New Features

Name

PLANE121

SOLID122

SOLID123

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
Properties

RSVX, RSVY, PERX, PERY, LSST

KEYOPT(3)

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RSVZ, PERZ
0 - Plane
1-Axisymmetric

KEYOPT(4)

0 - CS parallel to global, 1 - CS based on the I-J side

KEYOPT(5)

0 basic printout, 1 basic solution at int. pts, 2 nodal field

printout

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23X Elements GUI

8.1 New Features

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

8.1 New Features

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

8.1 New Features

Product

Multiphysics

Static or
Steady-state

Emag

Emag
Analysis
Class

Dielectric

Plane121
Solid122
Solid123
(VOLT-CHRG)

Electric conduction
Dielectric losses

Magnetic

Plane230,Solid231,Solid232
(VOLT-AMPS)
Thermo-electric elements
(VOLT-TEMP)

Solid5,Solid98,Solid96
(MAG-FLUX)
Plane13,Plane53,Solid97
Solid117
(AX,AY,AZ
CSGX,CSGY,CSGZ)

Harmonic analysis
Plane121,Solid122,Solid123
(VOLT-CHRG)

LF Emag
Harmonic
Transient

Material Properties

Transient & Harmonic analysis:

Plane230,Solid231,Solid232
(VOLT-AMPS)

HF Emag
Modal
Harmonic

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Plane13,Plane53,Solid97,Solid117
(AX,AY,AZ CSGX,CSGY,CSGZ VOLT AMPS)

HF118, HF119, HF120

(AX CSGX)

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Example steady state electric field analysis

8.1 New Features

A current I is applied at two point electrodes (e) on a thin conducting disk as

shown in the figure:
e
e

Problem parameters:
disk radius 20 cm

point electrode separation 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

8.1 New Features

Electric potential (VOLT) distribution

Electric current density (JC) distribution

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Example Transient Electric Field Analysis

8.1 New Features

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)
Electric field strength (EF)

5 cm

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Transient Electric Field Analysis Results

8.1 New Features

Time varying contours of

voltage

Time varying vectors of electric

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

8.1 New Features

Comparison of analytical and ANSYS computed results:

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New SOURC36 Capability

8.1 New Features

Analysis Requirement:

Prior to release 8.1, SOURC36 meshless current source primitives could only be
used in combination with magnetic scalar potential (MSP) 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.

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SOURC36 Analysis Example

8.1 New Features

Quarter symmetry model of solenoid using source36 for coil:

yoke
SOURC36 coil
primitive
Space in
which coil
resides

armature

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SOURC36 Analysis Example

8.1 New Features

Quarter symmetry model of solenoid magnetic flux density (vectors) results

using source36 for coil:

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8.1 New Features

High Frequency Electromagnetics

V8.1 New Features

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New Phased Array Capability

8.1 New Features

Analysis Requirement:
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!

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Phased Array Analysis Example

8.1 New Features

Antenna consisting of 25 X 25 array and single cell modeled

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Phased Array Results

8.1 New Features

Antenna directive gain for single cell & full 25 X 25 array

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Phased Array Results

8.1 New Features

Animation of Y component of electric field for single array cell

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8.1 New Features

Multi-field Solver

V8.1 New Features

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Multi-field Solver Enhancements

8.1 New Features

Enhanced Feature:
The following enhancements have been made to the dissimilar mesh mapping
aspects of the Multi-field 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.

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8.1 New Features

FLOTRAN Turbulence
Models & Conjugate Heat
Transfer

V8.1 New Features

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FLOTRAN Heat Transfer Enhancements

8.1 New Features

New Features:

Two new turbulence models have been added to FLOTRAN

Applicable to FLUID141 and FLUID142 Elements:

k- Model
Shear Stress Transport (SST) Model

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.
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FLOTRAN Heat Transfer Example

8.1 New Features

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

8.1 New Features

Fluid temperature results or SST turbulence model.

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FLOTRAN SST Model versus K-Epsilon

8.1 New Features

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

8.1 New Features

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

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8.1 New Features

ANSYS Workbench

V8.1 New Features

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8.1 New Features

Workbench Start-up

ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

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Workbench Start Page

8.1 New Features

Improved Ease of Use

Direct Access to
Workbench Windows
Project Page Available
for Managing Files

Geometry Accessed from

Simulation Window
Active CAD Systems
Files
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Workbench Options Menu

8.1 New Features

Global Workbench Options Control

Common Settings for All Applications
Unique Preferences That are Application Specific

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Workbench Options Menu

8.1 New Features

Mouse View Control Settings

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

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Communication
8.1 New Features

New communication
method that does not
involve SPAM.
Can Provide Support
Updates for:

Service Packs
Training
Tips & Tricks
FAQs

RSS News Headlines

ANSYS Corporate
Local Support News
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8.1 New Features

Non-Linear Materials

ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

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Nonlinear Materials
8.1 New Features

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

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Nonlinear Materials
8.1 New Features

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

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8.1 New Features

Solution Feedback and Results

ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

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Convergence History
8.1 New Features

Solution Output Object

Force
Max DOF Increment
Line Search Value
Time Increment

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Result Tracker
8.1 New Features

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

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Result Tracker Types

8.1 New Features

Directional Deformations (x, y, z)

Contact

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

8.1 New Features

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.
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Contact Tool - Reactions

8.1 New Features

Reactions for all

contact pairs are
summarized in the

worksheet view.

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Command Objects
8.1 New Features

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.

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Command Objects
8.1 New Features

Multiple instances are allowed

Command objects can be
exported or inserted

Parametric output back to WB

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8.1 New Features

Meshing

ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

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Mesh Refinement Control

8.1 New Features

Sphere of Influence
Applied to a face
Anchored to a user
defined coordinate
system

Sphere of Influence
Applied to a vertex

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Tri / Surface Meshing Algorithms

8.1 New Features

Better Transitions in 3D Advancing Front

Improved Point Placement for Delaunay

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Automatic Contact Sizing

8.1 New Features

With Contact Sizing

No Contact Sizing
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Automatic Contact Sizing

8.1 New Features

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Contact Size Mesh

8.1 New Features

DragnDrop contact
regions from Contact
Folder to Mesh
Folder

Absolute (default)
or Relative Sizing
Options
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Proximity Control
8.1 New Features

Performs Edge proximity

pre-refinement for nonswept models
May increase model size

With Proximity

Without Proximity
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8.1 New Features

CAD Integration

ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

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CAD System Updates

8.1 New Features

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

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CAD Integration
8.1 New Features

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

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8.1 New Features

Remote Solutions

ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

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Overview - Remote Solving

8.1 New Features

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

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Remote Solving
8.1 New Features

Can solve on local machine,

LSF cluster or UNIX server

Each Solution can be

sent to a different
server
Analysis license can
be selected
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Remote Solving
8.1 New Features

Each remote option has

defaults in the Options dialog

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Remote Solving
8.1 New Features

The status page shows all submitted jobs

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8.1 New Features

Miscellaneous Simulation Features

ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

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Pretension Bolt Loads

8.1 New Features

Pretension Application
Types:
Load (force)
Introduced at v8.0 as a Mechanical feature.
Adjustment
(length,
Now Enabled
by DesignSpace
number of threads)
Load

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Adjustment

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Miscellaneous Enhancements
8.1 New Features

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.
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Miscellaneous Enhancements
8.1 New Features

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.

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Miscellaneous Enhancements
8.1 New Features

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.
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8.1 New Features

Geometry - DesignModeler

ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

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DM - Multiple Treeview Selection

8.1 New Features

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

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Cross Section Improvements

8.1 New Features

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

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Cross Section Improvements (cont)

8.1 New Features

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
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Cross Section Improvements (cont)

8.1 New Features

Improved Display Options

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

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Cross Section Improvements (cont)

8.1 New Features

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

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Automatic Dimension Moving

8.1 New Features

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.
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Surface Extension
8.1 New Features

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.

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Fill Feature
8.1 New Features

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.

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Surfaces From Sketches Feature

8.1 New Features

Surfaces From Sketches allows you to quickly

and easily create surfaces directly from sketch
profiles.

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Import Options
8.1 New Features

New Import options

allow greater control
over imported
geometry.

The Process property

allows body filtering,
while geometry healing
options help clean up
poor geometry.

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Planar Bodies
8.1 New Features

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.
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More Modeling Improvements

8.1 New Features

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.

Point Feature by Coordinates

Points can be created from scratch by reading in
coordinates from a data file.
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More Modeling Improvements

8.1 New Features

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
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8.1 New Features

Beta Features

ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

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Mesh Matching (Beta)

8.1 New Features

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

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Mesh Matching (Beta)

8.1 New Features

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Plane Stress (Beta)

8.1 New Features

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Axisymmetric (Beta)
8.1 New Features

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Beam Stress (Beta)

8.1 New Features

Direct

Min Bending
Max Bending
Min Combined
Max Combined

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8.1 New Features

Low Frequency Electromagnetics

Simulation Beta Features

ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

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Objectives - WB LF Emag
8.1 New Features

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.

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WB LF Emag 8.1 Beta Features

8.1 New 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.
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WB LF Emag: Material Properties

8.1 New Features

Click mouse for zoom

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LF Emag Environment: Conductor

8.1 New Features

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
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LF Emag Solution: Displayed Results

8.1 New Features

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LF Emag: Vector & Contour Plots

8.1 New Features

Vector / Contour is selected in the

Solution objects Definition
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WB LF Emag 9.0 Features

8.1 New 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

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8.1 New Features

Optimization - DesignXplorer

ANSYS Workbench
V8.1 New Features

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DesignXplorer VT 8.1 Update

8.1 New Features

Topology Errors
Independent Soluton Type
Bonded MPC Contact Analysis in
DesignXplorer VT
Revised User Interface
Design For Six Sigma
Questions and Answers

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DesignXplorer VT 8.1 Update

8.1 New Features

Topology Errors -- Topology Errors shows the topology changes

that have caused DX VT to cut parameter ranges or fail to generate a
solution

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DesignXplorer

DesignXplorer VT 8.1 Update

8.1 New Features

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.

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DesignXplorer VT 8.1 Update

8.1 New Features

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

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DesignXplorer

DesignXplorer VT 8.1 Update

8.1 New Features

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

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DesignXplorer VT 8.1 Update

8.1 New Features

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

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DesignXplorer

DesignXplorer VT 8.1 Update

8.1 New Features

Design for Six Sigma Analysis Input Distributions

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DesignXplorer

DesignXplorer VT 8.1 Update

8.1 New Features

Design for Six Sigma Analysis Output; Histograms, Probability Tables

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DesignXplorer

DesignXplorer VT 8.1 Update

8.1 New Features

Design for Six Sigma Analysis Output; CDF, Probability Tables

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Parallel Performance for ANSYS

ANSYS Incorporated

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Parallel Performance for ANSYS

8.1 New Features

Where is PPFA of the most benefit?

Any existing ANSYS customer with:
Processing large linear models faster
Processing models that would not fit into the
available hardware. (On four 32-bit machines,
you can solve over 6 MDOF!)
Processing long running nonlinear analyses
that can be solved by the PCG solver*
Processing jobs as fast as possible. Here the
need is just shear throughput.
* Sparse is under development for 9.0
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Parallel Performance for ANSYS

8.1 New Features

Where is PPFA of the most benefit?

Any existing customer interested in:
Quicker turnaround time
(Factors up to 6.5x for 8 machines)

Relative Total Wall

Clock Time Ratio

Return on Investment of an Additional Seat vs. PPFA

(Based upon Total Solution Time, 100% Utilization)

100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%

PPFA Total
Time Ratio
Relative Cost of
PPFA (MP)
Relative Cost of
PPFA (ME)
Relative Cost of
PPFA (ST)

1
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4
5
6
Number of CPUs
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8.1 New Features

The Distributed Solution for ANSYS:

Parallel Performance for ANSYS
Add-on Module containing 4 solvers
Distributed Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (DPCG)
New at 8.0!!!!
Distributed Jacobi Conjugate Gradient (DJCG)
New at 8.0!!!!
Distributed Domain Solver (DDS)
Algebraic Multi-Grid Solver (AMG)

Works with a variety operating systems*

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Intel IA-32 Linux

Intel IA-64 Linux
Intel IA-32 Windows
Intel IA-64 Windows
Wide variety of Unix: HP, IBM, SGI, Sun

* - Only homogenous clusters

allowed
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Parallel Performance for ANSYS

8.1 New Features

Memory Management at 8.1

More efficient memory management in
general
Distributed PCG (DPCG) solver now
supports the memory saving feature
(MSAVE command) which uses an
element-by-element approach for the
stiffness matrix
For elements Solid92, Solid95, Solid186 or
Solid187
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Parallel Performance for ANSYS

8.1 New Features

Memory Management at 8.1

How much memory is required?
Machine #1 must contain its workload and the
entire preconditioner
Machines #2 through N only need their
individual workload

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Parallel Performance for ANSYS

8.1 New Features

How much memory is required?

For the Machine #1:

Machine(1) Memory(Gb)
MDOF(Maximum) = -----------------------------------------(0.1 + C / Number of Machines)
For Machines #2 through N:

Machines(2 N) Memory(Gb) * N
MDOF(Maximum) = ----------------------------------------C
Where: C = 1.0 for MSAVE,Off
= 0.7 for Solid95 or Solid186 with MSAVE, ON
= 0.5 for Solid92 or Solid187 with MSAVE, ON
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Parallel Performance for ANSYS

8.1 New Features

How much memory is required?

Example 1 for the Machine #1:
32 bit PCs with 1 Gb RAM Each
8 Machines in Total
Solid92 or Solid187 models

1 (Gb)
MDOF Machine #1 (Maximum) = -----------------(0.1 + 0.5 / 8)
= 6.15 MDOF!!!!

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Parallel Performance for ANSYS

8.1 New Features

How much memory is required?

Example 2 for the Machine #1:
32 bit PCs with 2.2 Gb RAM Available (with the
/3 Gb switch)
Total of 4 Machines in the Cluster
MSAVE not possible
2.2 (Gb)
MDOF Machine #1 (Maximum) = -----------------(0.1 + 1 / 4)
= 6.3 MDOF!!!!
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