DEEP LEARNING IN ANSYS WORKBENCH

Module 1: Ansys Workbench

Duration: 80 hrs.

SESSION 1 & 2: INTRODUCTION TO FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

• CAE: Introduction to CAE, CAE Tools, CAE in Automotive industry, CAE in Aerospace & Defence industry, CAE in
Construction
• Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multibody Dynamics, Durability, Optimization
• FEA: Introduction to CAE, Elements and Element Shapes
• General procedure to conduct FEA, Effective Utilization of FEA
• FEA Software’s, Advantages and Limitations of FEA
• Key Assumptions in FEA
• General working of FEA: Stiffness matrix, Boundary conditions
• FEA through ANSYS Workbench
• Types of Engineering Analysis, Important terms and definitions, and Classification of materials

SESSION 3: INTRODUCTION TO ANSYS WORKBENCH

• ANSYS Workbench: System requirements, Starting ANSYS Workbench, ANSYS Workbench GUI
• Working on a Project, Project Tab, Tool box in Project Tab, Configuring the Toolbox
• Analysis system, Component system, Custom system, Design exploration & External connection system
• Project Schematic, Adding system to Project Schematic
• Components of the system: Engineering Data cell, Geometry cell, Model cell, Setup cell, Solution cell and
Results cell
• System Editing: Naming & Renaming systems, Moving, Deleting & Replacing systems, Duplicating systems
• Project Schematic links, Understanding the cell states, Menu bar, Units in ANSYS Workbench
• Working with files & Project
• Exercises included for practice

SESSION 4 & 5: CREATING MODEL FOR ANALYSIS USING SCDM

• Introduction to Space Claim Modeling
• Space Claim GUI: Structure Tree, Selection Panel, Views, Status bar, Options Panel, Properties, Radial menu,
Working with components
• File operations: New, Open, Save, Archive, Copy & Close
• Importing & Exporting objects, Locking and Unlocking objects, Selecting, Undo & Redo
• Sketching: Sketch ribbon, Sketch Plane, Line, Tangent line, Construction line, Rectangle, Circle, Polygon,
Tangent Arc, 3-Point Arc, Points
• Sketch Editing: Rounded corners, Trim Away, Offset curve, Dimensioning sketches
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• 3D Modeling Tools: Pull, Sweep, Drafting faces, Move, Combine, Split, Project tool, Datum Planes, Axis, Points,
Origin, Patterns, Shell
• Assembly Tools: Tangent constraint, Align constraint, Orienting constraint
• Dimensions, Detaching & Checking Geometry
• Exercises included for practice

SESSION 6 & 7: PRE PROCESSING - MODEL PREPARATION IN SCDM

• Repair Menu: Missing faces, Stitch, Gaps, Split edges, Extra edges, Duplicate faces, Merging faces, Small faces,
Simplify tool, Inexact edges, Straightening faces, Relaxing surfaces, Tangency,
• Prepare Menu: Rounds, Faces, Bad faces, Extracting volume, Split by plane, Enclosures, Mid -surface, Spot
weld, Welds, Interference tool
• Beams Group: Creating Beams, Editing Beams, Orienting Beams, Connecting Beams, Splitting Beams, Beam
display, Moving beams
• Exercises included for practice

SESSION 8: ANSYS MECHANICAL APPLICATION

• Introduction to ANSYS Mechanical application
• GUI: Main Menus, Standard Toolbar, Graphics Toolbar, Selection Utilities, Context Toolbar, Graphics Options
Toolbar, Edge Graphics Options Toolbar, Tree Outline, Status Symbols, Details View, Undefined or Invalid
Fields, Exposing Fields as Parameters, Geometry Window, Contextual Menu Options, Status Bar
• Contextual windows, Selecting geometry, Selecting nodes, Selecting Element & Element faces
• Pan, Rotate & Zoom
• Viewports, Section Planes, Wizards, Co-ordinate systems, Connections, Boundary conditions, Solver & Results

SESSION 9 & 10: PRE PROCESSING - MESHING

• Meshing Overview, Meshing Implementation in ANSYS Workbench, Meshing Process in ANSYS
• Types of Meshing: Part/Body Level Meshing, Assembly Level Meshing, Meshing by Algorithm, Meshing by
Element Shape
• Mesh methods: Patch Confirming, Patch independent, Tet Meshing, Hex Meshing, Hex/Prism/Tet Hybrid
Meshing, Quad Meshing, Triangle Meshing
• Mesh Controls: Global Mesh Control & Local Mesh Control
• Trobuleshooting
• Exercises included for practice

SESSION 11& 12: STATIC STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

• Methods to Solve Engineering Problems: Analytical method, Numerical method, & Experimental method
• Why do we carry out meshing & what is FEM?
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• Accuracy while increasing nodes & elements

• Various types of analysis: Linear static analysis, Nonlinear analysis, Dynamic analysis, Buckling analysis,
Thermal analysis, Fatigue analysis, Optimization, CFD analysis, Crash analysis, NVH analysis
• Types of Failure theories: Maximum shear stress theory, Maximum normal stress theory, Maximum distortion
energy theory
• Structural Analysis in Ansys Workbench, points to remember
• Assembly analysis, Assembly analysis procedure
• Contact types: Bonded, No separation, Frictionless, Rough, Frictional
• Exercises included for practice

SESSION 13 & 14: MODAL ANALYSIS

• Introduction to Modal Analysis
• Dynamic Analysis: Free Vibration, Forced Vibration
• Why Dynamic analysis
• Natural frequency analysis
• Different methods to solve free vibration analysis, Avoid Resonance
• Specifying analyzing settings
• Exercises included for practice

SESSION 15: BUCKLING ANALYSIS

• Introduction to Buckling Analysis
• Types: Eigen value buckling analysis, Nonlinear buckling analysis
• Points to remember
• Exercises included for practice

SESSION 16: FATIGUE ANALYSIS

• Introduction to Fatigue
• Fatigue Analysis, S-N curve diagram
• Low cycle fatigue, High cycle fatigue
• Common decision for fatigue analysis, Why fatigue analysis
• Static, Dynamic & Fatigue Analysis comparison
• Fatigue Results: Fatigue life, Fatigue damage, Fatigue safety factor,
• Exercises included for practice
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SESSION 17 & 18: THERMAL ANALYSIS

• Introduction to Thermal Analysis
• Why Thermal analysis
• Conduction. Convection & Radiation
• Temperature
• Types: Steady state thermal analysis, Transient thermal analysis
• Preparing for analysis, Points to remember
• Thermal stress analysis
• Important terms in thermal analysis: Thermal gradient, Thermal flux, Bulk temperature, Film coefficient,
Emissivity, Stephan Boltzmann constant, Thermal conductivity, Specific heat
• Exercises included for practice

SESSION 19 & 20: DESIGN OPTIMIZATION

• Topology Optimization in ANSYS Workbench
• Geometrical parameters, Shape optimization
• Prerequisites and Requirements
• Design validation
• Exercises included for practice
• Project Workbook

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