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Introduction to ANSYS, Part I
| Schedule: | 2 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Level: | Recommended for anyone who performs finite element analysis (FEA) of mechanical parts and has little or no ANSYS experience. After completing the course, attendees should be able to maneuver efficiently within the ANSYS Graphical User Interface (GUI), build two- and three-dimensional models, apply loads and obtain solutions as well as effectively verify the results of an analysis and display results. |
| Course Topics Include: |
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- FEA & ANSYS
- ANSYS Basics
- General Analysis Procedure
- Creating the Solid Model
- Creating the Finite Element Model
- Defining Material Properties
- Applying Loads and Boundary Conditions
- Running the Solution.
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| | Each course chapter is followed by "hands-on" workshops and excercises. |
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Introduction to ANSYS, Part II
| Schedule: | 2 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Introduction to ANSYS Part I |
| Level: | Designed as follow on course of "Introduction of ANSYS, Part I" or for intermediate ANSYS users who perform FEA on mechanical parts. This course teaches advanced modeling and analysis techniques using array parameters, coupling and constraint equations, element coordinate systems and surface effect elements. Upon completion, attendees should be able to apply more advanced modeling and analysis techniques supported by ANSYS. |
| Course Topics Include: |
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- Structural Analysis
- Thermal Analysis
- Postprocessing - Reviewing Solution Results
- Array Parameters
- Coupling & Constraint Equations
- Working with Elements
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| | Each course chapter is followed by "hands-on" workshops and excercises |
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Introduction to ANSYS, Part III
| Schedule: | 2 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Introduction to ANSYS Part I and II |
| Level: | Designed follow on course of "Introduction of ANSYS, Part I and II" or for intermediate ANSYS users who perform FEA on mechanical parts. This course continues with advanced modeling and analysis techniques such as beam modeling, submodeling, modal analysis and bonded contact analyses as well as creating macro files. Upon completion, attendees should be able to apply the advanced modeling and analysis techniques supported by ANSYS. |
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- Beam Modeling
- Coupled Field Analysis
- Submodeling
- Modal Analysis
- Introduction to Nonlinear Analysis
- Bonded Contact
- Macro Basics
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| | Each course chapter is followed by "hands-on" workshops and excercises. |
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Introduction to ANSYS, Part I+II
| Schedule: | 4 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Level: | Combined courses "Introduction to ANSYS, Part I and II". |
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Introduction to ANSYS, Part I+II+III
| Schedule: | 6 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Level: | Combined courses "Introduction to ANSYS, Part I, II and III". |
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Advanced Contact & Bolt Pretension
| Schedule: | 2 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Basic Structural Nonlinearities |
| Level: | From contact stiffness and friction to surface-to-surface, node-to-node and bolt pretension elements, this two-day course is designed to analyze contact models that cannot be readily solved using default settings. |
| Course Topics Include: |
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- Contact Overview
- Typical Applications & Contact Classifications
- Contact Stiffness
- Basic Concepts & Determining a Value
- Friction Contact and Auto Timestepping
- Surface-to-Surface Elements
- Advanced Options for Special Problems
- Rigid Surface Considerations
- Creating without the Contact Wizard & Troubleshooting
- Node-to-Node Elements
- Node-to-Surface Elements
- Bolt Pretension Elements
- PRETS179 Element and Typical Procedure
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| | Each course chapter is followed by "hands-on" workshops and excercises |
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Advanced Structural Nonlinearities
| Schedule: | 3 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Basic Structural Nonlinearities. |
| Level: | Focuses on element selection and the wide range of constitutive models
available in ANSYS. Rate-independent plasticity, viscoplasticity/creep, and
hyperelasticity are some of the topics which will be discussed. Geometric
instability problems and element birth and death will also be covered. |
| | Attendees will learn the appropriate element formulations to use, the input of nonlinear material parameters, and the applicability of the various constitutive models for engineering use. |
| Course Topics Include: |
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- Introduction
- Course Objectives
- Course Material
- Topics Covered
- Appendix A
- Material Input
- Material GUI
- Element Technology
- Chapter Overview
- Conventional Displacement-Based Continuum Elements
- Shear and Volumetric Locking in Continuum Elements
- Selective Reduced Integration (B-bar)
- Uniform Reduced Integration (URI)
- Enhanced Strain Formulation
- Mixed U-P Formulation
- General Recommendations for Continuum Elements
- Shell Elements
- Beam Elements
- Advanced Rate-Independent Plasticity
- Background on Rate-Independent Plasticity
- von Mises Yield Criteria
- Anisotropic/Hill Potential (HILL)
- Anisotropic/Generalized Hill Potential (ANISO)
- Voce Nonlinear Isotropic Hardening (NLISO)
- Linear Kinematic Hardening
- Chaboche Nonlinear Kinematic Hardening (CHAB)
- Combined Hardening (CHAB + xISO)
- Cyclic Hardening and Cyclic Softening
- Rachetting and Shakedown
- ANSYS Procedural Considerations for Plasticity
- Creep
- Phenomenological Aspects of Creep
- Definition of Terms
- General Creep Equation
- Implicit Creep Procedure
- Explicit Creep Procedure
- ANSYS Solution Procedure for Creep Models
- Comparison of Implicit vs. Explicit Creep
- Viscoplasticity Background on Viscoplasticity
- RATE viscoplasticity option (Perzyna and Peirce)
- ANAND viscoplasticity option (Anand’s model)
- Solution Procedure for Viscoplastic Models
- Hyperelasticity
- Background on Physics of Rubber
- Background on Hyperelastic Theory
- Particular Forms of the Strain Energy Potential (18x Elements)
- Considerations for HYPERxx Elements
- Solving Hyperelasticity Models
- Material Testing and Curve-Fitting
- Viscoelasticity
- Background on Viscoelastic Theory
- Rheological Models (Maxwell, Kelvin-Voigt, Standard Linear)
- ANSYS Viscoelastic Model Input
- WLF Shift Function
- TN Shift Function 7-30 Solving Viscoelasticity Models
- Curve-Fitting of Experimental Data
- Drucker-Prager/Concrete
- Drucker-Prager plasticity
- Geometric Instability: Buckling
- Background on Structural Stability
- Linear (Eigenvalue) Buckling Procedure
- Background on Nonlinear Buckling Techniques
- Nonlinear Pre-Buckling Procedure
- Nonlinear Post-Buckling Procedure
- Element Birth and Death
- Background on Element Birth and Death
- Element Birth and Death Procedure in ANSYS
- Additional Considerations for Birth and Death
- Postprocessing Analyses with Active and Deactivated Elements
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Basic Structural Nonlinearities
| Schedule: | 2 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Introduction to ANSYS Part I and II |
| Level: | Recommended for engineers who analyze structural nonlinear phenomena such as
large deflection, plasticity or contact, this two-day course will aid in
modeling geometric, material and contact nonlinearities, and in obtaining
converged solutions with accurate results. |
| | After completion, mechanical analysts should have a basic understanding of
how to analyze structures with geometric nonlinearities, implement large strain
theory in a nonlinear analysis and analyze structures with plasticity and
contact nonlinearities. |
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- Nonlinearities Overview
- Obtaining the Solution
- Postprocessing
- Basic Geometric Nonlinearities
- Basic Plasticity
- Introduction to Contact
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| | Each course chapter is followed by "hands-on" workshops and exercises.
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Heat Transfer
| Schedule: | 2 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Introduction to ANSYS Part I and II |
| Level: | Engineers responsible for analyzing the thermal response of structures and
components, are encouraged to take this course. The course focuses on performing
steady-state, transient, linear and nonlinear thermal analyses.
After completing the seminar, analysts should be able to analyze: |
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- thermal responses of structures involving conduction, convection, and
radiation
- the response of structures exhibiting special heat transfer phenomena
including thermal-stress coupling and phase change.
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- Fundamental Concepts
- Steady State Heat Transfer (no mass transport)
- Additional Considersations for Nonlinear Analysis
- Transient Analysis
- Complex, Time & Spatially Varying Boundary Conditions
- Additional Convection / Heat Flux Loading Options and Simple Thermal / Flow Elements
- Radiation Heat Transfer
- Phase Change Analysis
- The Finite Element Approach to Thermal Analysis
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| | Each course chapter is followed by "hands-on" workshops and exercises.
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Dynamics
| Schedule: | 2 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Introduction to ANSYS Part I and II |
| Level: | Engineers capable of analyzing the dynamic response of structures would
benefit from this two-day course focusing on modal, harmonic and transient
dynamic analysis. Upon completion, analysts should be able to: |
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- calculate natural frequencies and mode shapes of linear elastic structures
(modal analysts)
- analyze the response of structures under the action of time-varying loacs
(transient analyses)
- analyze the response of structures with loads varying sinusoidally
(harmonic response analyses)
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- Modal Analysis (definition & purpose, terminology & concepts,
procedure)
- Harmonic Analysis
- Transient Dynamic ANalysis
- Restarting an Analysis
- Spectrum Analysis
- Mode Superposition
- Modal Analysis - Advanced Topics (prestressed modal analysis, modal cyclic
symmetry, large deflection modal analysis)
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Explicit Dynamics with ANSYS LS-DYNA
| Schedule: | 2 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Introduction to ANSYS Part I and II |
| Level: | Beneficial to engineers who analyze problems involving contact, large
deformations, nonlinear materials, high frequency response phenomena or problems
requiring explicit solutions.
Attendees with prior modeling and nonlinear skills should be able to: |
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- distinguish problems that should be solved explicitly versus implicitly
- identify and choose element types, materials and commands used in explicit
dynamic analyses
- perform all procedures for an explicit dynamic analyses
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- Elements
- Part definitions
- Material definitions
- BDs, Loading, and Rigid bodies
- Solution and simulation controls
- Postprocessing
- Restarting
- Explicit-to-Implicit sequential solutions
- Implicit-to-explicit sequential solutions
- ANSYS LS-DYNA drop test module
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Electromagnetic Analysis
| Schedule: | 3 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Introduction to ANSYS Part I and II |
| Level: | A three-day course in Electromagnetic Analysis is recommended for analysts
who perform magnetostatic, low frequency harmonic and transient electromagnetic
analyses. Attendees learn how to set up and solve electromagnetic field
problems, compute field quantities, extract forces, torque, eddy currents, and
losses. Workshop problems include solenoid actuators, permanent magnet machines,
and transformers. After completing the course, analysts should be able to
perform two- and three-dimensional magnetostatic, harmonic and transient
magnetic field analyses, circuit-coupled electromagnetic field analyses and
calculate force torque inductance fields losses flux and saturation levels.
- set up and solve electromagnetic field problems
- compute field quantities
- extract forces, torque, eddy currents and losses
After completing the course, analysts should be able to perform:
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- two- and three- dimensional magnetostatic analyses
- harmonic and transient magnetic field analyses
- circuit-coupled electromagnetic field analyses
- force, torque, inductance, fields, losses, flux and saturation level
calculations
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- 2D Planar and Axisymmetric Magnetostatic Analysis
- 2D Planar and Axisymmetric Harmonic Response (Steady State AC) Analysis
- 2D Planar and Axisymmetric Transient Analysis
- 3D Magnetostatic Analysis using the Scalar Potential
- 3D Harmonic Response and Transient Analyses
- Special Topics and Modeling Strategies
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| | Each course chapter is followed by "hands-on" workshops and exercises.
Workshop problems include:
- Magnetic Clutch
- Current Excitation
- Skin Effects in a Solid Rectangular Bar
- Normally Closed Switch
- DC Electromagnet and Keeper
- Gear Induction Heating Using SOLID117
- Flux Passing Through Metal Detector Sense Coil Using SOLID97
- 2D Planar Rotating Machine Using Prepared Input Files
- Torque Calculations for 3D Periodic Devices
- Use LMATRIX to Determine Keeper Force
- Calculating Inductance and AC Resistance of Solid Conductors from Terminal
Conditions
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High Frequency Electromagnetic Analysis
| Schedule: | 2 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Introduction to ANSYS Part I and II |
| Level: | A two-day course in High-frequency Electromagnetic Analysis is recommended
for analysts who perform full-wave high-frequency modal and harmonic
electromagnetic analyses from radio frequency (RF) to microwave, even light
wave. Attendees learn how to set up and solve full-wave high-frequency
electromagnetic field problems, visualize electromagnetic fields as well as
calculate high-frequency electromagnetic parameters and quantities. Workshop
problems include:
- Circular Waveguide Modes and Cutoff Frequencies
- Microstrip Line Propagation Constants
- Lossy Rectanular Cavity (Resonator) Modes, Frequencies, and Quality Factor
- Transmission through a Coaxial Cable
- Defining Interior Ports in a Rectangular Waveguide
- Scattering off a Rectangular Plate
- S Parameter and Directive Gain of a Phased JRM Array Antenna
- S Parameter of a Low Pass Filter
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two-dimensional waveguide and transmission line analyses, three-dimensional
resonant, propagating, radiation and scattering electromagnetic field analyses
as well calculate quality factor (Q-factor), scattering matrix parameters
(S-parameter), near/far electromagnetic fields, antenna pattern, voltage,
current, characteristic impedance, radar cross section (RCS) and Joule heat.
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- Introduction
- 2D Modal Analysis
- 3D Modeling of Propagation in Waveguides
- 3D Scattering and Radiation (Radar, Antenna)
- 3D Modal Analysis (Resonant Frequencies and Modes, Q Factor)
- Propagation in 3D Transmission Lines
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ANSYS Workbench - Simulation Introduction
| Schedule: | 2 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Level: | ANSYS Workbench - Simulation Introduction (3-day training course) is an
intuitive up-front simulation tool that is used in conjunction with CAD systems.
It verifies product performance early in the concept and in the early design
stages of product development.
The use of this tool enhances accelerated product development processes by
providing rapid evaluations of multiple design scenarios and reducing the need
for multiple designs and testing iterations. ANSYS Workbench - Simulation
Introduction provides solutions for structural, thermal, modal, linear buckling,
and shape optimization studies.
The training course provides students with the ability to operate ANSYS
Workbench - Simulation and the basic understanding of simulation concepts and
results interpretation.
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- Introduction
- Simulation Basics
- General Preprocessing
- Static Structural Analysis
- Free Vibration Analysis
- Thermal Analysis
- Linear Buckling Analysis
- Shape Finder
- Results Postprocessing
- CAD & Parameters
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Introduction to ANSYS for MEMS
| Schedule: | 2 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Introduction to ANSYS Part I and II |
| Level: | Basic structural and heat transfer analysis
concepts applicable to MEMS are covered while setting a foundation for the intermediate
level course. Concepts include:
- static structural analysis
- mode-frequency analysis
- steady-state heat transfer
- reduced order model parameter extration
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- Introduction
- The ANSYS MEMS Initiative & Applications
- ANSYS Basics
- System of Units
- Importing Geometry
- Solid Modeling
- Select Logic
- Meshing
- Solvers
- Static Structural Analysis - Steps & Attributes
- Static Structural Analysis - Plane Stress & Strain, 3-D
- Static Structural Analysis - Boundary Conditions
- Structural Static - Solution
- Structural Static - Postprocessing
- Modal Analysis Overview
- Reduced Order Modeling
- Introduction to Thermal Analysis
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Multiphysics Simulation for MEMS
| Schedule: | 3 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Introduction to ANSYS, Part I and II or Introduction to ANSYS for
MEMS |
| Level: | The course focuses on coupled physics simulation methods and techniques for
common MEMS devices, such as:
- thermal-electric actuators
- comb drive resonators
- micromirrors
- switches and piezoelectric actuators.
Advanced technical concepts covered include:
- electrostatics
- capacitance extration
- piezoelectrics
- pre-stress effects
- initial stress effects
- damping characterization via CFD simulation
- thermal-electric coupled simulation
- coupled electrostatic-structural dynamic simulation including
time-harmonic and time-transients
- substructuring
- reduced order modeling using coupled transducer elements
- pull-in and hystersis simulation and more.
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- Geometric Nonlinearities and Initial Stress Contact Analysis for MEMS
Applications Pre-Stressed Modal Analysis Beam Cross-Section Modeling
- Introduction to Electrostatic Analysis Capacitance
- Hybrid Trefftz-Finite Element Method for Open Domains
- Electrostatic-Structural Coupling Fundamentals Sequential Method for
Electrostatic-Structural Coupling
- Direct Matrix-Coupled Electrostatic-Structural Methods using the TRANS126
Transducer
- Pre-Stressed Modal and Pre-Stressed Harmonic Analysis using TRANS126
- Large-Signal Transient Analysis using TRANS126
- Reduced Order Macro Modeling for System Simulation of MEMS Devices
Introduction to Piezoelectric Analysis
- Introduction to Current Conduction Analysis Thermal-Electric Coupled-Field
Analysis
- Thermal Stress Analysis
- Using CFD for Reduced Order Modeling Damping Characterization
- Units System for MEMS Simulation
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Design Optimization
| Schedule: | 2 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Introduction to ANSYS Part I and II |
| Level: | Recommended for analysts with a working knowledge of ANSYS who are ready to
use some advanced software tools. The course is directed toward improving
engineered designs by optimizing weight, cost and performance.
After completing the course, attendees should be able to build a parametric
analysis file that can be optimized, produce a standard optimization run in
ANSYS and use discrete design variables during optimization.
In addition, Attendees will learn how to manage optimization variables while
executing an optimization and perform an optimization in batch mode. |
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- Introduction to Design Optimization
- Parametric Modeling
- Optimizing the Design
- Exploring the Desing Domain
- Optimizing the Design, II
- Robust Design
- Probabillistic Design Systems (PDS)
- Topological Optmization
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Programming in ANSYS
| Schedule: | 1 Day |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Working knowledge of FORTRAN programming language |
| Level: | Analysts responsible for customizing application of the ANSYS Software should
attend this course. The seminar focuses on improving the efficiency of
performing specific ANSYS analyses. This course instructs users how
to create custom ANSYS commands and sub-routines through macro programming using
the ANSYS Parametric Design Language and customize content and organization of
ANSYS GUI components. |
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- Macro programming overview
- Data access programming, ANSYS output files, and external data input into
ANSYS.
- User programmable features guidelines, access points, data access, memory
allocation, object discussion, and useful routines and commons.
- UIDL programming including
- UIDL and GUI fundamentals
- creating/modifying MENU blocks,
- modifying the Preprocessor menu
- branching out to a new menu
- creating FUNCTION blocks
- creating a menu item for edge plots
- model rotation
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Introduction to AI*Environment
| Schedule: | 2 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Introduction to ANSYS Part I and II |
| Level: | The AI*Environment training course is for users that need to create finite
element models and review structural and other FEA solution results. |
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- how to navigate within the Graphical User Interface
- how to create geometry
- how to import CAD models
- how to mesh 2D surfaces and 3D volumes using
- Patch dependent/independent surface meshers
- Tetra from original CAD and/or existing surface mesh
- Hexa mesher for mapped solid mesh
- how to define material properties
- how to apply loads and boundary conditions
- how to set solution options and submit jobs for FEA solvers
- how to review solution results
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DesignModeler
| Schedule: | 2 Days |
| Location: | Athens or onsite |
| Price: | Ask for our offer |
| Prerequisite: | Introduction to ANSYS Part I and II |
| Level: | The ANSYS Workbench - DesignModeler training course is for users that want to
create and modify geometry in preparation for analysis in ANSYS or ANSYS
Workbench. |
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- how to create and modify geometry in preparation for analysis
- how to navigate within the Graphical User Interface
- how to generate 2D sketches and convert them into 2D or 3D models
- how to modify 2D and 3D geometry
- how to import existing CAD geometry
- how to create line bodies and their cross sections in preparation for FE
beam analysis
- how to create surface bodies in preparation for FE shell analysis
- how to model assemblies
- how to utilize parameters
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