MBU 2020 R1

ACE & Channel Partner

Training Sessions

December 18 2019
Upcoming sessions
Time slot 1 - 4AM EST, 9AM UK, 10AM CET
Time slot 2 - 12 Noon EST, 5PM UK, 6PM CET

Presentation Date
2020 R1 Mechanical Overview Wednesday, December 18th
Mechanical 1
Thursday, December 19th
(UI, Core, Post and Graphics, Architecture, External Model)
Mechanical 2
Friday, December 20th
(Explicit dynamics, AQWA, DCS, LS-DYNA, Sherlock)
Additive & Topology Optimization Monday, January 13th
Mechanical Nonlinearity
Tuesday, January 14th
(SMART Fracture, Composites, Material Designer)
Mechanical Solver
Wednesday, January 15th
(Linear dynamics, APDL)
Release Schedule

• After feedback from customers, ANSYS staff and Channel Partners we can announce that:

‐ From January 2020 Ansys will move to a cycle of two releases per year
‐ Releases in Jan 2020, June 2020, Jan 2021, June 2021 etc
Mechanical Development Focus Areas

Simulation Workflows and Usability Model and physics complexity easily handled

HPC And Cloud Workflows Moving simulation from desktops to servers/cloud

Solver Features Mechanical Exposure Accelerating feature migration to Mechanical

Additive Manufacturing A new paradigm for manufacturing and simulation

Bridge ECAD  MCAD Worlds Seamlessly prepare and solve complex PCB Models

Continued Solver Physics Advances Pushing the boundary in complex physics

Mechanical
Editable and User Defined Cross Sections
• Mechanical now supports creating, editing and duplicating cross sections
2D Contact Normal Display and Flipping
• For edge contacts on 2D surface bodies, there is
a new “Display” category that includes the
property “Element Normals”. This property
displays the normal direction of the elements for
each edge in contact

• This display feature works in combination with

two additional new properties of the “Geometric
Modifications” category: Flip Contact
Normals and the Flip Target Normals. These
properties enable you to invert or flip the normal
direction of the edge elements in contact
Convection Load with Fluid Flow Display
• When you specify reference temperature using the “Thermal Fluid” property of a “Line
Body”, and you set the “Fluid Flow” property of a Convection or Imported Convection
Coefficient objects to Yes, there is a new display property: “Display Connection Lines”.
This property enables the display of connection lines between the centroid of each
element face/edge of the convection surface(s)/edge(s) to the corresponding closest
node on the fluid flow scoping.
Post Processing

• Envelope Calculations - “Solution Combination” results now

have additional options to choose the type of calculation:
o Combination (default)
o Maximum/Minimum Over Combinations
o Combination of Maximum/Minimum

• Reinforcements - When you have reinforcement

elements (REINF263, REINF264, and REINF265) in your
model, you can now view results for these elements
using the “Result File Item” scoping method for result
objects.
Additional Results - Probes
• The following three probe types are now available within the Mechanical environment
o Joint Probe
o Spring Probe
o Beam
Mechanical Scripting
• ACT Console replacement
• Maximize real-estate
• Scripting editing and execution
• Integration of button editor
ANSYS Motion ACT App
• An integration of the Ansys Motion solver technology into the ANSYS Mechanical GUI
• Compatible with ANSYS 2019 R3 upwards
• Provides the power of the ANSYS Workbench and Mechanical Environments to
facilitate the pre-processing of Ansys Motion models.

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ANSYS Motion Special API for Roller-Coaster
• Purpose of development
o Designed for building Roller-Coaster model
o SPECIAL API has been supported to
assemble a series of bodies on the curved
path
• Application
o Roller-Coaster assembly or similar
application which must be assembled on
predefined curve
• Remark
o Refer “Links 3D API.pptx” for detail
operation
External Model
Support Nonlinear Springs from ABAQUS (SPRING2 with table)
Support Theta Field from NASTRAN CQUAD*/CTRA*/CTRI* Cards
Support ABAQUS *CONTACT INTERFERENCE and *CLEARANCE
• These are shown in the columns « Interface Treatment » (« Offset Only, No Ramping » and
« Offset Only, Ramped ») and « Offset »
Allow Importing Beam Elements without Cross Sections Assignments
• Beam elements without cross sections assigned to them can now be imported (previously
blocked)
• Cross sections can later be assigned to them (on line bodies) using the new Cross Sections
objects
File/Import and Drag&Drop into Mechanical Standalone Journaling
(Beta) and Scripting
• New python Apis to import mesh files using Mechanical Scripting feature
Explicit Dynamics
Explicit Dynamics Summary
• Scoping to a mesh-based selection
o Both Node and Element Face mesh-based selections can be used in applicable boundary
conditions
• Drop Test Wizard
o Rotate Geometry object in the Drop Test Wizard has been replaced with the native Part
Transform object
• Reaction Probes
o Force and Moment reaction probes are now supported
LS-DYNA
Additional Results - Thickness
• The thickness evolution during the calculation is available as a new postprocessing item
Imported Stresses with LS-DYNA Implicit
• Springback can now be solved with the LS-DYNA Implicit solver. It is provided as an
alternate to the MAPDL Solver for the implicit part of the calculation. It enables a greater
compatibility in terms of materials laws and formulation between the explicit calculation
and the implicit calculation

**Stress at the beginning of the calculation

 DCS
Distributed Compute
Services
Distributed Compute Services - Introduction
• ANSYS introduces a host of new services that enable
the distributed evaluation and management of
simulation workflows:
They are called DCS, the Distributed Compute
Services.

• As a part of this, Design Point Service (DPS) allows

the robust and distributed evaluation of tens of
thousands of Design Points, starting from a standard
ANSYS Workbench simulation project

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 Open, Modular, Service-Oriented Architecture
Clients DC Services DC Evaluators
Arbitrary clients can interact Manage simulation workflows. Can run on arbitrary compute
with the Design Point Service. Handle data transfers and file resources. Query the Design
Parametric Workbench Model storage. Point Service for tasks to
evaluate based on their
capabilities.
Transfer of simulation Design Point Service
project, model DC Evaluator 1
parameters & Compute task Linux workstation
Design Points pulled by Evaluator
DC Evaluator 2
Design Points
Windows workstation
Output parameters &
Import of Evaluated Design Point files DC Evaluator 3
Design Points are passed back Linux cluster

DC Evaluator 4
Cloud resource
Other Design Exploration
systems (DX & others) DC Evaluator ‘N’
Arbitrary compute resource
Other optimizers

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Sherlock
ANSYS Integration Elements
• FEA Solver: Sherlock has been updated to
use ANSYS MAPDL as the default FEA
engine. Calculix is no longer available or
used for FEA analysis other than for Thermal
Mechanical analysis
• Results Processing: Processing of ANSYS FEA
results has been updated to process ANSYS
result (.rst) files directly for both the results
and the model import
• Installation: Sherlock is included in the
Structures Unified Installer

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Additive Manufacturing
Additive Prep
• Tree supports
• Write build files
o SLM
o CLI – EOS
• Modify power, speed, and
focus parameters for
different vector types
• Modify scan order
• Cost estimator
• Licensing option

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ANSYS Additive (Print/Science)
• EOS build files available (Beta)
• AlSi10Mg for all simulation types
o Microstructure
o Single Bead
o Porosity
o Thermal History
o AP all modes
• User controlled laser beam diameter
• Log icons to assist in finding log information
• J2 Plasticity threading
• J2 Plasticity beta removed
• Build size increased to 1m^3
• Disable support optimization
• Meltpool Reference Width
• Additive Print to Workbench Additive
Workflow
o Cutoff
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Workbench Additive
• Inherent Strain Method
• SSF Available for Calibration
• AMCONNECT Macro for connecting
Layered Tet part and voxel support
• Wizard Updates
o Inherent Strain
o Materials Automatically Loaded
o Sequential Progression for Cutoff
• Print to Workbench for Cutoff
• Smaller Result File
• Conformal Voxel Part and Support
(Beta)
• Improvements to Blade
Interference (Beta)
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Topology Optimization
New Topology Optimization Validation Workflow 2. Define and solve your
topology optimization problem
1. Define your analysis (via density or level-set methods)
at stake

3. Create and export a model

via the smoothing object
4. Mesh and evaluate your result
User Defined Criteria
• Support of Primary and Composite Criteria: available with static system, independently of
topology optimization
• Can be used in constraint or as objective in both level-set and density-based topology
optimization
Bolt Pretension
• Density-based topology optimization now supports “Bolt Pretension” with multiple load
steps, where the state is changed from Load to Lock
• Limitation removed for Lock load steps
Linear Dynamics
Linear Dynamics Enhancements in Mechanical
• The Linear dynamics features enhancements in 2020 R1 release of mechanical are as
follows:
o Top down CMS model reduction method for Response Spectrum analysis
o Volumetric Force Density transfer from Maxwell
o On Demand result calculation for Mode Superposition (MSUP) harmonic and
transient analysis
CMS Enhancements in Mechanical
• Top down CMS based method for generation of super elements is now supported for
Response Spectrum analysis
Volumetric Force Density Transfer from Maxwell
• Support frequency varying body force density in FULL harmonic
• Applications: Electric Transformers, Electric Motors
Coupled Field Analysis in Mechanical
• In 2020 R1 release, Mechanical supports these additional features for Coupled Field Static
and Coupled Field Transient Analysis
o Apply Imported Temperature as Initial Condition
o Supporting External model for Coupled Field Analysis
o Spot welds
o Constraint equations and coupling conditions
o Global temperature Tracker
Advanced Mechanical
Features
Direct Pressure without Surface Effect Elements
• The direct pressure loading is supported in Mechanical for 3D solids. It will not create any
new surface effect elements for applying pressure loads. Instead, it will apply the loads
directly to the solid element faces. It is developed using the SFCONTROL command
exposed in MAPDL. It applies to Pressure (Normal To/Vector/Components), Force and
Hydrostatic Pressure based loading in mechanical.
• Direct pressure option is exposed using “Applied By” property which can be set to Surface
Effect (default) and Direct. Surface Effect creates surface effect elements which is the
default behavior in prior releases
Application Based Transient Solution Settings
• The “Solver Controls” group under Analysis settings of
Full Transient Structural Analysis now make it easier
for users to instruct the program to choose the best
solution settings based on the intended application of
the transient simulation, which could be numerical
integrations scheme, integration constants etc.
• The supported application options include Impact,
High Speed Dynamics, Moderate Speed Dynamics, Low
Speed Dynamics, Quasi-Static and User Defined. When
User Defined option is selected, the user is instructed
to specify value of amplitude decay factor setting,
which was exposed as numerical damping value under
“Damping Settings” in prior releases
MAPDL Elements
3D 3-Node Cable Element CABLE280
Stranding
• Suitable for analyzing Winding
moderate to extremely
slender cable structures
• Computationally efficient
with only translational DOFs
• Mixed Displacement / Force queins.com/en/solutions/stranding/
formulation for superb
solution accuracy and One cable is placed in the center, a second layer
robustness containing six cables is stranded around it.

• Wide range of applications: Pulley and Cable

offshore, civil, and
mechanical
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Elements continued

Pure Displacement Formulation – Linear Tetrahedral

• A linear tetrahedral element with displacement as
DOF only: SOLID285 (KEYOPT(1)=1)
o Efficient and robust for problems without significant bending and
incompressibility

Inverse Analysis
• Supports Solid185 B-bar formulation (keyopt(2)=1)
• Supports Solid186, Solid187 and Solid185(B-bar)
with mixed u/P (Keyopt(6)=1,2)
• New, supports large deformation with
incompressibility, such as biomedical applications
Contact Features
Defining Preload in a Fastener Undergoing Large Rotation
• “PSMESH” can now define “MPC184” joint elements for
applying a preload to a bolt undergoing large rotation or large
deformation
• The joint element supports large deformation and
the bolt axis follows the local coordinate system defined
at the joint node
• You can apply torque and rotation about the bolt axis (FJ and
DJ, respectively)
• Bolt Sleeve Model Undergoing Large Rotation:
New Interference Fit Modeling Technique
• A new method for solving interference fit ramps the normal and tangential contact
stiffness (FKN, FKT) as well as the friction coefficient (MU) from near-zero up to actual
values. The ramping method is active during a load step or a time period that you specify.
The time period can be within one load step or span across several load steps. Unlike the
other interference-fit methods, initial contact engagement is not required
3D Radial Shaft
Plate Springs Seal Ring
2D Axisymmetric Circular Spring
Hooked Spring 2D

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APDL Solver
Distributed ANSYS Enhancements
• New features
o New –rcopy argument to specify remote file copy command on clusters (defaults to scp)
o Added logic to detect SIGKILL/SIGABRT signals and provide relevant message to user
• Improved scaling
o Significantly reduced memory requirements at higher core counts
o Improved Block Lanczos scaling performance at higher core counts
o Faster performance for fracture parameter calculations
o Faster performance in sparse solver when running in the out-of-core memory mode on
systems, which use the Microsoft Windows operating system
Distributed ANSYS Enhancements
• Improved sparse solver performance using Windows I/O functions

Model 1
• 4.4 MDOF; sparse solver, out-of-
Solution Performance Comparison
core memory mode 2.0
• Nonlinear static analysis
• Windows workstation containing

Solution Speedup
2019 R3
an Intel Xeon E5-2687W processors 1.5
(12 cores), 64 GB RAM, 10k RPM 2020 R1
hard drive, Windows 10
1.0
Model 2
• 9 MDOF; sparse solver, out-of-core 0.5
memory mode
• Nonlinear static analysis
• Windows workstation containing 0.0
an Intel Xeon E5-2687W processors Model 1 Model 1 Model 2 Model 2
(12 cores), 64 GB RAM, 10k RPM
(2 cores) (8 cores) (2 cores) (12 cores)
hard drive, Windows 10
Miscellaneous Enhancements
• Database file compression (sparsify)
o Activated by default via /FCOMP,DB,SPARSE
o Can be deactivated via /FCOMP,DB,0
o Achieves roughly 20-50% database file size reduction for most models
• Includes .rdb database files used by the multi-frame restart procedure
• Slightly longer times to save database files
NLAD
2020 R1 Developments in NLAD
• Current Developments in 2020 R1:
‐ NLAD with NLGEOM=OFF
‐ Nonlinear Stabilization with NLAD and Rezoning
‐ Mixed Remeshing
‐ “KEEP” option for maintaining and updating element components in NLAD
‐ Support for Tabular input of nodal temperatures and heat generation
NLAD with NLGEOM=OFF

NLAD with NLGEOM=OFF

• Energy criterion used to refine mesh
• Automatic improvement of solution accuracy
• Reduction of structural errors

Without NLAD – Stresses Without NLAD – Errors With NLAD – Stresses With NLAD – Errors
Nonlinear Stabilization with NLAD

NLAD without stabilization:

Analysis fails due to instability

Key Features:
• Hollow cylindrical tube subjected to bending load
• NLAD with MESH and ENERGY criteria
• Activate global stabilization
• Stabilization included during MAPSOLVE in
NLAD with stabilization
NLAD/Rezoning
Upcoming sessions
Time slot 1 - 4AM EST, 9AM UK, 10AM CET
Time slot 2 - 12 Noon EST, 5PM UK, 6PM CET

Presentation Date
2020 R1 Mechanical Overview Wednesday, December 18th
Mechanical 1
Thursday, December 19th
(UI, Core, Post and Graphics, Architecture, External Model)
Mechanical 2
Friday, December 20th
(Explicit dynamics, AQWA, DCS, LS-DYNA, Sherlock)
Additive & Topology Optimization Monday, January 13th
Mechanical Nonlinearity
Tuesday, January 14th
(SMART Fracture, Composites, Material Designer)
Mechanical Solver
Wednesday, January 15th
(Linear dynamics, APDL)