As the year winds down, I thought I’d share some of the most read ANSYS blog posts of 2015 with you. From harmonic analysis to how germs spread when you sneeze, I hope you’ll find these choices as interesting as I did.
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Most read ANSYS blog posts this year
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ANSYS Student Version Released – Free Download
In August, we announced the immediate availability of the free of charge ANSYS Student product. Yes, you read that correctly! We’ve actually made our student product version available free of charge, globally! read more
Simulation Confirms Your Mom Was Right – Cover Up When Sneezing!
It’s flu and cold season again, ugh. Check out this blog post with a simulation of a sneezing passenger using ANSYS to study the mechanics of pathogen travel in airplane cabins. read more
Base Acceleration in Harmonic Analysis – 3 Techniques and 1 ACT Extension
Harmonic analysis is a technique used to determine the steady-state response of linear structures to loads that vary sinusoidally (harmonically) with time. In harmonic analysis, the entire structure has constant or frequency-dependent stiffness, damping and mass effects. The structure’s response at several frequencies is calculated to obtain a graph of some response quantity (usually displacements) versus frequency. Thereafter, peak responses are identified and stresses reviewed at those peak frequencies. read more
Effective Use of the ANSYS Workbench Project Schematic
If you’ve used the project schematic in ANSYS Workbench for any length of time then you’ve probably tried linking cells together that you just aren’t allowed to link. Or perhaps you’ve found yourself duplicating Mesh or Setup data manually. Here we’ll explore some tips and tricks and consider various workflow scenarios and show you how to make the schematic work for you. read more
Specifying Multiple Steps in ANSYS Mechanical
In ANSYS Mechanical Workbench, steps are changes in the load history, which are defined by the user. For example, through the use of multiple steps, a user can (a) analyze the tightening of bolts of a gasket assembly, then (b) subject that assembly, including the bolt pre-load, to external loads such as pressure and temperature loading. A third step can be introduced to unload the bolts to see the permanent deformation in the gasket. This history-dependent behavior cannot be captured if all of the loads were to be applied at the same time, so the concept of steps can play an integral part of the solution setup.This post will discuss two tips related to controlling multiple steps. read more
Understanding Contact Reaction Probes in ANSYS Mechanical
There are three methods available for extracting the reaction forces across a contact region in WB-Mechanical:
- Contact (Underlying Element)
- Contact (Contact Element)
- Target (Underlying Element)
When you choose ‘Contact (Underlying Element)’, the code is selecting the contact elements associated with that region, selecting nodes attached to the selected contact, and then selecting elements attached to the selected nodes before calculating the reaction. read more
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If you missed any of these ANSYS blog posts, I hope you enjoyed reading them now. And if you have any suggested topics you’d like to see covered, please comment on this post with your ideas and I’ll see if I can make that happen!
See you in 2016 when our ANSYS Webinars This Week posts return in this Monday slot !
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