ANSYS Version 10: New Features for Mechanics | Composites | Advanced Analysis |

Dynamics | WB Simulation | Fatigue add-on | Parallel Performance |

Composites

Layered Solid (SOLID186): This element is a higher order 3-D 20-node solid element that
exhibits quadratic displacement behavior. The element is now available in two forms: Structural
Solid and Layered Solid. The element is well suited to modeling irregular meshes (such as those
produced by various CAD/CAM systems).

Layered Solid Shell (SOLSH190): Used for simulating shell structures with a wide range of
thickness (from thin to moderately thick). You can now associate the element with a shell section
and use it for layered applications such as modeling laminated shells or sandwich construction.
Up to 250 layers are supported. The element offers better through thickness inter laminar stress
using the layered option.

FiberSIM-ANSYS Interface

FiberSIM (a product of Vistagy, Inc.) is a fiber draping tool used within popular CAD systems.
The FiberSIM-ANSYS interface allows you to use the information contained in a FiberSIM .xml
file in your ANSYS model. Generated by FiberSIM's draping calculations, the .xml file data
contains the order of layers (including dropped layer information) and the layer orientation. In
ANSYS, you supplement that information by adding material and thickness information to each
layer via ANSYS section commands. The FiberSIM-ANSYS interface applies to the ANSYS
elements only.

Cohesive Zone Modeling and Delamination

You can now create a cohesive zone within a body. The new capability allows you to model the
separation/delamination area of a single material, or two different materials, separating or
cracking along some interface region.

The new cohesive zone model starts from two components or groups of elements and establishes
a zone of interface elements along the boundary between them. The boundary is one element
thick and is populated with interface elements that share coincident nodes with the adjacent
structural elements and within the element itself. (The element initially has zero thickness.)
Subsequent separation (delamination) of the two components or groups of elements results in an
increasing displacement between the initially coincident nodes (within the interface element)
along the cohesive zone boundary.

Unless otherwise specified, ANSYS analyzes the configuration and geometry of the adjacent
structural elements and provides the appropriate interface element. The cohesive zone operation
copies any nodal temperatures that you have defined on the split surface of the original mesh
from the original nodes to the newly created coincident duplicate nodes; however, the operation
does not copy displacements, forces, and other boundary conditions. Cohesive zoning is
available for structural analyses only.
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Advanced Analysis

Anisotropic hyperelasticity: An anisotropic hyperelastic material model has been developed for
the simulation of anisotropic behavior of the materials that observed in elastomers, biomeaterials,
ties and other elastomer composites. The model introduces a pair of material orientation vectors
to account for the reinforcement and anisotropic behavior of material. The model is assumed to
nearly or purely incompressible. The material model can be used together with mixed-UP
element formulation.

Extended Drucker-Prager model: The Drucker-Prager model has been extended to include
plastic isotropic hardening; three different yield surfaces with linear, hyperbolic, and power law
functions; and three different flow potentials with linear, hyperbolic, and power law functions.
The model includes both associated and non-associated plastic flow rules. The model is specific
to the simulation of granular materials.

3-D Beam-to-Beam Contact

A new line-to-line contact element, is available to model 3-D beam-to-beam contact. This
element is useful for modeling contact between beams or pipes undergoing large displacements.
Some example applications are nuclear power plant piping, cable wires and coils, woven fabrics,
and tennis racquet strings. You can model three different scenarios using contact paired with the
target elements:

• Internal beam contact where one beam slides inside another

• External contact between two beams that lie next to each other and are roughly parallel
• External contact between two beams that cross

The target element supports two new segment types, straight line and parabola, for use in beam-
to-beam contact. The contact can be flexible-flexible or rigid-flexible. Only structural analyses is
supported.

Stabilization of Contact Models

Several enhancements to the contact elements help to stabilize contact models from potential
rigid body motion. These enhancements apply to all contact elements.

• Contact damping coefficient - You can now use real constant to define a contact
damping coefficient for standard contact. This adds viscous contact pressure or force
opposite to the relative motions between the contact and target surfaces. The contact
damping provides resistance and reduces the potential risk of rigid body motion.
• Contact stiffness variation - The default method of updating normal contact stiffness is
suitable for most applications. However, in some cases, the default contact stiffness is
still not small enough to reduce contact chattering. This is especially true for rigid body
motion in contact models. For these situations, you can use a new KEYOPT setting to
 increase the contact stiffness variation range, which often helps to establish contact
conditions.

Manual Rezoning

Manual rezoning released in ANSYS 9.0 has now been extended to elasto-plastic rezoning for 2-
D. Capability finds application in metal forming type applications where severe mesh distortion
requires constant re-meshing for completing the analysis. Rezoning now supports the following:

• Plastic materials defined by BISO, MISO, NLISO, are supported

• Flexible-flexible contact and self-contact. The contact detection at nodal points is also
supported, as is contact analysis using Lagrange-multiplier-based contact
• All contact behaviors for all contact elements are valid

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Dynamics

Multipoint Constraint Element (MPC184):

The following enhancements are now available:

• Slot joint element -- A new two-node slot joint element option has been added. The slot
joint element has one relative displacement degree of freedom, and can include control
features such as stops and locks on the displacement component of relative motion.
Boundary conditions can be imposed on this component of relative motion. Linear and
nonlinear stiffness and damping behavior can also be specified for the component.
• Direct elimination method -- The MPC184 Rigid Link and Rigid Beam defaults have
changed. The default method of implementation is now the direct elimination method;
prior to this ANSYS release, the default was the Lagrange multiplier method. The change
should offer a significant performance boost in most cases. The new default does not
support thermal expansion. Element output is unavailable with the new default setting.

Rotordynamics and Flexible Body Dynamics

In an analysis involving a rotating structure, ANSYS can now take inertia effects into account
the during modal, transient and harmonic analysis. You can observe the inertia effects in either a
stationary or rotating reference frame.

The primary application for a stationary frame of reference is in the field of rotordynamics where
a rotating structure (rotor) is modeled along with a stationary support structure (stator). ANSYS
computes the displacement field with respect to the global coordinate system. Elements that are
part of the rotating structure generate the gyroscopic matrix that arises due to the rotational
angular velocity. The gyroscopic matrix is available for the beam, pipe and mass elements.
The primary application for a rotating frame of reference is in the field of flexible body dynamics
where, generally, the structure has no stationary parts and the entire structure is rotating. A
typical analysis of this type, therefore, considers only the Coriolis force. ANSYS computes the
displacement field with respect to the coordinate system attached to the structure and rotating
with it at the specified angular velocity. The Coriolis matrix and forces are available for beam, 2-
D/3-D solid and shell elements. In a dynamic analysis, the Coriolis matrix and the spin-softening
matrix contribute to the gyroscopic moment in the rotating reference frame. You can include spin
softening effects when you specify the angular velocities.

In a modal analysis with multiple load steps corresponding to different angular velocities, you
can generate a Campbell diagram showing the evolution of the natural frequencies. ANSYS also
prints out the critical speeds for a rotating synchronous (unbalanced) or asynchronous force. As
eigenfrequencies split with increasing spin velocity, ANSYS identifies forward (FW) and
backward (BW) whirls, and unstable frequencies.

Dynamics of rotating structures analyzed using 3-D/1-D

model representation in ANSYS.

Middle Step Residual Criterion for Structural Transient Analyses

In a transient analysis, the accuracy of the solution depends on the size of the time step. Usually,
a smaller time step will yield a more accurate solution, but the total analysis time increases as the
time step decreases. You can now request the computation of the middle step residual as a
measurement of the accuracy of the solution within a time step.

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WB Simulation

Thermal Transient Analysis

ANSYS 10.0 extends the power of ANSYS Workbench Simulation to thermal transient analysis.
Thermal transients find application in analysis of heating and cooling of electronic components,
operation of gas turbine and other similar applications. The new enhancement offers advanced
thermal transient analysis capabilities with temperature-dependent properties and time-dependent
loads and boundary conditions. This combined with an intuitive user interface for transient
setups provides users an easy tool go from transient thermal analysis to thermal stress analysis of
parts at various time points. In addition post-processing tools such as animation, scoped results
and probe results provide better representation of results.

Thermal transient analysis of a BGA chip in

ANSYS Workbench Simulation.

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Fatigue Add-On Module

New to the ANSYS Fatigue Module is the ability to analyze Low Cycle Fatigue (LCF) by Strain
Life methods for constant amplitude loading with non-constant under development (Beta). The
Fatigue Module adds the capability to simulate performance under anticipated cyclic loading
conditions over a product’s anticipated life span. Incorporating both Stress Life and Strain Life
analyses with a variety of mean stress correction methods including Morrow, Smith-Watson-
Topper (SWT), and no mean effects , the Fatigue Module provides contour plots of fatigue life,
damage , factor of safety and stress biaxiality. Additional results include rainflow matrix,
damage matrix, fatigue sensitivity and hysteresis.

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Parallel Performance for ANSYS Add-On Module

All Distributed ANSYS (DANSYS) users will benefit from the dramatic improvements made to
the installation and configuration process. Made possible by HP-MPI on Linux systems,
DANSYS no longer requires consistent working directory structures , supports NFS mounting
for slave nodes, automatically picks the fastest interconnect available and allows both rsh and ssh
logins. By adopting HP-MPI, Distributed ANSYS now supports the following interconnects:

• InfiniBand (recommended)
• Myrinet (recommended)
• GigE
• Ethernet (not recommended)

DANSYS supports static and full transient electromagnetic analysis with elements SOURCE36,
SOLID96, SOLID97 , SOLID122, SOLID123, SOLID231 and SOLID232. At 10.0, previous
limitations have been removed, with DANSYS now supporting the Mixed U-P formulation,
linking in of User Programmable Features (UPF) on Linux and UNIX and allowing beam and
shell contact including shell and beam thicknesses by automatically grouping all contact
elements together into one domain. DANSYS now allows serial solution of the Radiosity Solver
while performing a distributed thermal analysis.