R19.0 Structural Mechanics

1 © 2017 ANSYS, Inc.
January 17, 2018

Headlines
Performance
Solver scalability, Contact, 4 Cores
Fracture & Non Linear Adaptivity (NLAD)

S.M.A.R.T fracture in Mechanical, High order NLAD
Usability & Capabilities

External model, Material plots, Acoustics
2 © 2017 ANSYS, Inc. January 17, 2018

Mechanical
Composites, External Model, Usability, Topology Optimization, Preprocessing
Dynamics
Explicit Dynamics, Rigid Body Dynamics, Linear Dynamics
Physics
Acoustics, SMART Fracture, NLAD, Multiphysics
Solver & Element technology

Contact, Element Technology, Non Linear Transients, HPC

Mechanical

Composites Field-dependent Material Properties
Import spatial fields • Scoping on model down to ply-level

• element-wise
• Variable density Scope field definitions to
• node-wise • Element Sets (Named Selections)
• Material plots in Mechanical
• layer-wise • Oriented Selection Sets
• Improved interpolation algorithms • Modeling Plies

Composites - Mapping of a Composite Lay-up onto a Solid Mesh
ACP layup definition Map shell-based composite definitions onto an solid mesh to
build a layered composite solid model.
• ACP automatically builds a 3D lay-up
• Solid mesh is generated outside ACP
+
External solid mesh • Use cases:
– Full cross-section composites, turbine blade
– Where the standard solid model (extrusion) of ACP is not feasible
Layered solid mesh

Composites - ANSYS Composite Cure Simulation - Updates
AVRAMI – Erofeev new cure kinetics equation Linear viscoelasticity added to allow simulation of
material behaviors with strong viscous relaxation
Simulation of polymerization with two competing
reactions Stiffness relaxation expressed in terms of Prony series
New equation allows to capture dual exothermic This capability allows to simulate residual stress
peak during polymerization relaxation effects when component is exposed to in-
service loading

External Model - 19.0 Enhancements
Import additional data from input files Nodal Boundary Conditions can now be imported from
• Boundary Conditions
the following sources
• Nodal Loads MAPDL ABAQUS NASTRAN
• Constraints D and F commands *BOUNDARY and SPC, SPC1, SPCADD and
*CLOAD keywords SPCD
• Bolt Pretension
FORCE, FORCE1, FORCE2,
Usability enhancements MOMENT, MOMENT1,
MOMENT2 and LOAD
• Ability to promote all rows from the tree

External Model - Boundary Conditions
Each Degree of Freedom (DOF)
value is represented by a different
column.
User can edit/deactivate the loads

for each step / DOF in the tabular
data view

External Model - Boundary Conditions
• In addition to imported data, user has ability to add additional

DOFs to Imported Boundary Conditions or remove imported
DOFs from the analysis
• User has the ability to choose display color for all active DOFs
from details view.
• User has the ability turn ON / OFF display of individual DOFs in

graphics from toolbar
• Supported in most analysis types

External Model - Bolt Pretension
• Bolt Pretension Sections can now be imported from
the following sources:
• ABAQUS
• PRE-TENSION SECTION
• MAPDL
• Elements PRETS179
• Can then be promoted to specific
environments
ABAQUS MAPDL
Element Based Force Coupling (Maxwell Transient – Harmonic)
Ability to transfer EM forces from Maxwell to
a frequency domain Harmonic Analysis
–Maxwell Transient to Harmonic supported
in 19.0
–Maxwell Eddy Current to Harmonic supported in R18.2

Clipboard Toolbar
Ctrl + Q
The Clipboard toolbar is a selection feature
Ctrl + W
that assists you to make, store and build up
geometry or mesh selections. Ctrl + R
Keyboard shortcuts
Using the options of the Clipboard menu, you can create, change, add to, and overwrite
your clipboard selections in order to temporarily save selection entities.
• Vertices
• Edges
• Faces
• Nodes
• Elements

Element Face-Based Named Selections using the Worksheet
The Element Face Entity Type has new criteria specifications:
• Normal. Includes all element faces whose normal direction is same as the selected axis
• Location X, Location Y, and Location Z. Includes all element faces whose face centroid
location matches the input value.
You can also convert element face-based Named Selections to node-based Named
Selections.

Birth and Death
Example model
Contact and Element birth and death now • 2 blocks of differing expansion properties
native to Mechanical • 2 contact pairs
Activate and deactivate contact 1. No-separation contact active, bonded contact dead
at specified load steps 2. Temperature raised from 22 to 100C
3. Bonded contact activated
4. Temperature reduced to 22C
5. Top layer of elements killed
Element birth and death 6. Second layer of elements killed

Material Plotting
New object under Geometry for visualizing material properties on selected geometries.
Spatially varying materials and imported

material fields

Report average and total results
Two new result object properties are available: Average and Total.
Average value is provided for results when Minimum and

Maximum values are listed (This value is an arithmetic mean).
Total result available with:

Length, Area, Volume, Mass, Force, Moment, or Energy.
This Total value is an arithmetic sum.

Works on User Defined Results (UDR)

Detect several min/max (peaks and lows)
For nodal results such as displacements, and element
nodal results such as stresses and strains, the
application provides the context menu (right-click)
options Create Peak Probes (K) and Create Valley
Probes (L).
As shown on the context menu, the K and L keys also
activate the options.
When activated, these options display probe labels for
the largest (Peak) and smallest (Valley) result values
within the local range. The display limit for these
options is six labels.

Result files - Easy import of RST files
The Read Result Files option (Tools Menu) no longer requires that
1011 you have an error (.err) file included in the target directory.
0110 Now, the application only needs the result file (.rst or .rth).
1101
file.rst
In addition, you can also use uncombined result files from a

Distributed ANSYS solution instead of a single combined result file.

Result files – Post any result from RST file
Posting of any results on RST file via "Result File Item" scoping with node or element id
1011 If the Scoping Method property of a result is set to Result File Item, the Item Type property
0110 is set to Materials IDs, Element Name IDs, Element Type IDs, Element IDs, or Node IDs.
1101
In addition, the solver may generate new elements, not included in the original mesh, in
file.rst
order to process loads, contact conditions, or support conditions. The application also assigns
an ID to these elements as well as the elements corresponding nodes. You can also use these
system generated element and node IDs for further post processing.

Live stress/strain computations (without writing stress on rst file)
On Demand Stress/Strain
Evaluate stress, elastic strain, and thermal strain results without writing the associated data to the result file.
• Smaller result file size (especially for models with layered shells)
• Less writing to disk during solve, faster solve times
To use of the On Demand Stress/Strain property:
• Set the Stress and Strain properties of the Output

Controls of the Analysis Settings object to No.

Topology Optimization
Inertial Loads are now supported Thermal Condition and Temperature loads
• Thermal loading can now be taken into
account for topology optimization
• Example below aims to limit vertical displacement
Thermal condition effects excluded
Topology Density Result

Thermal condition effects included

The user can perform RSM solution on Multiple and combination of Pull out
both Windows and Linux clusters direction, Symmetry, cyclic and
Extrusion manufacturing constraints are
supported
Solve, My computer Background RSM Job monitor for Topology Optimization

At 19.0 Topology Optimization
–Penalty factor ( Stiffness ) is now supported. At present it is named as Penalty
Parameter, but we will change the name to Penalty factor (Stiffness)
Penalty factor (Stiffness ) = 3
Penalty factor (Stiffness ) = 2

For topology optimization studies of multiple upstream systems, you no longer have to
update each newly created design validation systems.
Newly created systems automatically share Engineering Data, Geometry, and Model cell
data

Preprocessing Highlights:
Simplified defaults/setup
Improved size factors
Improved defeaturing
Improved shell meshing
Cartesian meshing
Improved hex meshing
Improved mixed order meshing
Improved contact sizing

Simplified mesh sizing user experience:
• Layout of meshing controls simplified to make

frequently used options easier to find
• Further simplification of meshing options can be

done by turning on Simplified mesh sizing UI

Shell Meshing: Improved mesh patterns
R18 R19
Improved handling of cylinders

More uniform mesh
Improved handling of pinched regions
R18 R19
R17 R18 R19

Shell Meshing: Improvements in bolt holes & washers
Improvements to mesh patterns around holes
Improvements to washer generation (layer around
hole):
R19
– Better alignment
– Quality improvements by moving away from geometrical
constraints
R18
R19

Cartesian Meshing
New types of Cartesian meshing:
– Stair-step all-hex mesh; useful for the following:
• Additive Manufacturing Print Simulations
• Quick & Dirty meshing solutions (uniform hex mesh for
quick solution)
– Body-fitted all-hex mesh; useful for the following:

• Explicit dynamics
• Electronics components
• Environment & Process industry modeling
• Biomedical modeling
Projection Factor controls how closely to follow the geometry

(trade-off between mesh quality and feature capturing):

Cartesian Meshing: Other features
• Cartesian mesh spacing options to allow

more control over fitting of cartesian
elements to your geometry
• Cartesian meshing uses inflation in key areas
to improve quality in corners
No With
inflation inflation

Hex Meshing: MultiZone improvements
• Improved automation, robustness &

performance
• Improved support for cases with intersecting
imprints
• Improved defeaturing
• Improved decomposition , O-grid and mapping
MultiZone Defeaturing

Hex Meshing: Bolt Example
Improved:
– Mapped mesh
– Decomposition
– O-Grid pattern

Dynamics

Joints in Explicit Dynamics
General (and derived) & Bushing joints
• Both Body-Ground, Body-Body
• Combine Flexible and Rigid parts
• Joint probes (Force, Moment, displacement etc)
• Joint loads
• Joint stops/locks/restitution

Explicit Dynamics
Point masses for Explicit Dynamics can now be defined
• Object in Geometry folder
• Mass and Mass moments are added to the lumped properties
of the nodes in the Remote Point scope
Drop test Wizard

The drop test wizard in Explicit
Dynamics has now been added to the
Workbench LS-Dyna system.

LS-Dyna .k file reader in External Model
• Motivation:
–Allows users to read in LS-Dyna input files directly
into Workbench
–Gives a route to import models from non-Ansys LS-
Dyna solvers
• Example: New customer to Ansys LS-Dyna who
previously had LS-Dyna from another supplier can
now import their legacy models in to workbench

Co-simulation Functional Mock-up Unit (FMU) export
Motivation:
–Allows use of assemblies of rigid or deformable bodies in
system level transient simulation
–Provides a unified interface to Matlab, Simulink, Simplorer,…
Example: Flock of Drones
–Create one single FMU for the drone
–Setup system model in MECSYCO
(FMU master)
–20 drones are launched with a random
target position
–Ask them to reach some common meeting
points

Miscellaneous enhancements
Joint Friction enhancements
–Improved performances for Stick / Slip transition
Large contact models performance enhancement
–Solution Initialization time 3-6x faster
Energy based Kinematics
–Provides “Physics-aware”
stabilization of time integration

Linear Dynamics
New COMBI250 Bushing Element Cyclic Fluid Structure Interaction Analysis
2 nodes – 6 dofs/node Modal and full harmonic analyses are now
supported
Real constants:
• K1 to K6 (stiffness) Mix of structural and acoustics elements
• CV1 to CV6 (viscous damping) No specifics for cyclic procedure
• KIMAG1 to KIMAG6 (structural damping)
Element coordinate system and offset

Equivalent to Nastran CBUSH

Energies Enhancements
Additional energy calculations for full transient, full harmonic, and modal analyses
activated with EngCalc on TRNOPT, HROUT, or MXPAND.
Accurate computation of complex energies (peak and amplitude) when solution is complex
Calculation of the work of external load and dissipation energy
New VENG on OUTRES to only output the energies
Post-processing using usual PRENERGY, PRESOL, PLESOL, ENERSOL, and ESOL with new
labels
Mechanical APDL Theory Reference > 14.16 Energies

Verification Manual > to be added
AFT done by Julien Ravoux – WB project available

Physics

Acoustics - Irregular Perfectly Matched Layers
Introduce PML absorption condition on a convex enclosure (no shape limitation)
–No more constrained to cartesian box
–Reduce mesh size
–Option available on Physics Region

Acoustics - Transfer Admittance Matrix: Hexagonal & Square grid plate
Avoid meshing a complicated perforated structure
Numerical model based on perforation dimensions
Common usage for muffler applications

Acoustics - Far-field microphone results
Allow to plot acoustic quantities (pressure, SPL, SPLA, phase) function of the frequency at
defined location outside the model mesh

Acoustics - Results
Radial axis bounds for Far Field Polar Plot
Trim the polar plot values and tabular data based on
bounds specified by the user
Results between ports

Plot Transmission between 2 ports or Absorption
coefficient and return at a given port function of the
frequency
Frequency response results

Plot frequency varying (Pressure, SPL, SPLA…) on selected
geometric entities or nodes

S.M.A.R.T. - Separating, Morphing, Adaptive and Re-meshing Technology
Supports
–Mode I dominant crack propagation
–Static crack propagation based on failure criteria (Stress intensity factor or J-Integral)
–Fatigue crack propagation based on Paris law defined using Engineering Data
–Crack propagation of
• Semi-elliptical
• Arbitrary cracks
• Pre-meshed cracks

S.M.A.R.T. - Results
Results from S.M.A.R.T. analyses can be post
processed in Mechanical via:
• Standard Mechanical contour plots + animations
• Standard Mechanical probes
Turbocharger blade with a pre-exist crack

• Pressure load on blade surface
• Fatigue crack growth with Paris Law

Non-Linear Adaptivity - New Features At 19.0
• Nonlinear adaptivity (NLAD)
– Support 10 node tetrahedral elements:
Solid 187 and Solid 227
– New option to refine elements of
Plane182, Plane222, Solid187 and
Solid287 through general remeshing
– Allow combined criterion options
CONTACT/ENERGY/BOX/MESH in the
same input
– Support 3D fluid penetration
• 2D to 3D analysis
– MAP2DTO3D
• Support distributed ANSYS

NLAD - Examples
Glass Blowing Cross-bar impression
Elasto-plastic materials with 13 remeshings

Visco-plastic material using PEIRCE rate law: 12 remeshings

NLAD: 2D O ring simulation
• Refinement only with contact based criterion
– NLADPTIVE,,,CONTACT,NUELEM,VAL1
– Through general remeshing instead of splitting
• Better element shapes in mesh transition zone than splitting
– 6 times of refinements
– Input: oring.dat

NLAD: Remeshing/Refinement with 3D Fluid Pressure
• Allow refinement and remeshing when fluid pressure exists to get better accuracy
Fluid pressure applied to separate the two parts at 2nd load step
Without NLAD With NLAD
Larger strain value reported with

mesh refinement
2D to 3D Analysis
• MAP2DTO3D Benchmark model (2D3D): DMP run time
– Support distributed ANSYS now for performance # of element: ~95000
• Map 2D axisymmetric analysis results to 3D 1
Number of process
• Migrate all BCs and Loads to 3D 2
4
• Regenerate contact and surface elements 8
• Rebalance the 2D solutions on 3D domain 16

32
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500

Run Time (sec.)
Distributed ANSYS DMP performance results
MAP2DTO3D

New Software Architecture for 1 way-FSI
Previous CFD-Post based Mapping Load Type Source Target Time Mechanica CFD-Post Performance Ratio
Nodes Nodes steps l-Based
CFD CFD POST

results Body 140,000 1.1 M 5 50 sec 11 min 13x
Temperature
Mechanical
Pressure 400,000 20,000 1 8 sec 5.5 min (no-octree) 40x
8 sec (octree) (1x with octree)
New Mechanical-Based Mapping
Temperature 100,000 45,000 1 40 sec 20 min+ (no-octree) 30x+
Mechanical (surface) 1min (octree) (1.5x with octree)
CFXDI
CFD C++ New
results Heat Transfer 400,000 20,000 1 11 sec 5.5 min (no-octree) 30x
Library mapping
Coefficient 11 src (octree) (1x with octree)
library
Volumetric Loads
(Body Temperature)
• 3x faster for a single time step.
Surface Loads
(Pressure, Heat Transfer Coefficient, Surface Temperature)
• 30x to 40x faster
Fast Thermal Solver Enhancement
• Tables allowed nodes/elements as independent variables in
Time Dead Elements
18.1 release making it possible to have
dynamic element birth/death within a single loadstep( see *DIM
command)
• The fast thermal solver( THOPT,QUASI) has been enhanced to

exploit this advanced feature to simulate
Additive manufacturing
• This example was simulated with a single load step(multiple

substeps) using tables for element birth as well as for the heat
generation due to the moving laser avoiding multiple SOLVE
commands.

Radiosity Flux scaling
3D Full Model 90 degree sector model
Metallic disk with 4 radiation enclosures, Scale the density, thermal conductivity, film
convection heat loss to fluid flow at inner coeff and Stefan-Boltzmann constant to get
radius same solution as full 3D model.
The scaling factor is 4.0
metal
radiation
fluid
FLOW
convection

Coupled Field Elements – 22X Thermal and Structural Magneto
The 22x coupled-field elements now Coupled-Field Coupled-Field KEYOPT(1) DOF Label Analysis Type
support new magnetic coupling for both Elements Analysis
structural and thermal with Magnetic PLANE223
DOF’s. 2-D 8-node Structural- 10001 UX, UY, UZ, AZ Static
quadrilateral Magnetic Full Transient
Thermal Loads Structural- 10101 UX, UY, UZ, AZ, Static

SOLID226 Electromagnetic VOLT Full Transient
Surface loads: convection, heat flux, 3-D 20-node
radiation brick Structural- 10201 UX, UY, UZ, AZ, Static
Stranded Coil VOLT, EMF Full Transient
Body load: heat generation
Thermal- 10010 TEMP, AZ Static
Magnetic Loads SOLID227 Magnetic Full Transient
3-D 10-node
Body load for magnetic: tetrahedron
Thermal- 10110 TEMP, VOLT, AZ Static
Electromagnetic Full Transient
source current density
Body load for electromagnetic: velocity

WHY THERMOMAGNETIC ANALYSIS ?
Applications in Electronics, Automotive, Aerospace, Mining, Oil and Gas, Rail, Construction
Electromechanical systems
• Circuit breakers Heat generated
• Actuators
• Railguns
Metal industry (Induction Heating)

• Melting/ Shrink fitting Electrical current
• Brazing/soldering/welding
Induction heating
• Metal treating (annealing, hardening, tempering )

3D STATIC THERMOMAGNETIC SIMULATION
• Static Induction Heating: direct coupling via SOLID226
• A long conductive hollow cylinder rotates about its axis.
• A stationary solid cylindrical permanent magnet resides with
the hollow rotating one.
• Velocity effect : eddy current in the cylinder -> heat generation
Current Density in the Conductive Cylinder Temperature distribution in the problem domain

TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT BH CURVE SIMULATION
Simulate the effect of temperature dependent BH curve TB,BH,3,,,TCF Expected results:
Assumption: Core temperature is preset tbtemp,260
B results must be
tbdata,1,1
Current excitation: 5 Amps tbtemp,430 scaled by 0.8235
Core: ChinaSteel_35CS211 tbdata,1,0.88
Element: PLANE233 tbtemp,600
tbdata,1,0.75
BC: Az=0 at the outer boundary
T=260C T=500C

Motion of an Electromagnetic Actuator
Magnetic flux lines
A static analysis is performed to simulate the sliding of a

highly permeable rod into a ferromagnetic core gap
– Analysis typical for the simulation of solenoid actuators, relays, motor starters, circuit breakers
– Moving rod and elastic air are modeled with the magneto-structural analysis option (KEYOPT(1)=10001)
of PLANE223
– Elastic air is assigned a small Young’s modulus; KEYOPT(4) set to 1
– Maxwell force option used (KEYOPT(8)=0)
Ferromagnetic Actuator motion (animation)

core
Actuator displacement (Ux)
Rod
Permanent
magnet Elastic Air

Stress Analysis of a Solenoid
A 3D magneto-structural static analysis is performed to simulate the deformation of a stranded
coil carrying an electric current
Magnetic flux (BSUM)

Deformation (USUM) Von Mises Stress
Magnetic force
deforms the coil
Deformation changes
the magnetic field and
force

Piezoelectric Perfectly Matched Layers (PML)
• Perfectly matched layers (PML) to absorb outgoing elastic waves in piezoelectric medium
• Truncate infinite open domain into finite element domain
• MADL commands: piezoelectric element KEYOPT(15) = 1
5 elements along
PML region

Solver and Elements technology

Contact - Small Sliding Contact
Small-sliding contact assumes that relatively small sliding motion (<20% contact
length) between the contact and target surface Arbitrary rotations of contacting
bodies are permitted.
Each contact detection point always interacts with the same target element which
is determined from the initial configuration.
The use of kinematic multipoint constraints (MPCs) to represent linear contact MAPDL - KEYOPT(18)=1
behavior has been available for several releases. In Rev.18.2, a general linear
contact capability for all contact algorithms (penalty, MPC, and Lagrange multiplier)
is now available
Contact
target
(ξ𝟎 ,η𝟎 ) (ξ𝟎 ,η𝟎 )
Gap and slip are measured from the contact detection point to its original
nature coordinator of intersection on target
Linear Contact – Small Sliding
Advantages:
The contact searching and is performed once in the beginning of the linear analysis.
The factorized stiffness matrix can be re-used if there is no displacement constraints or CEs are added or
removed in sequent load steps.
Reaction forces are always balanced comparing with the “one iteration based NL solution”.
• 1st Load: apply pretension forces
•2nd Load: Lock pretensions
• 3rd – 20th load apply external forces
Linear contact solving time: 490 sec

1 iteration NL solving time: 1081 sec

Contact - Small Sliding Contact
• Improve contact robustness (Engine model)
• 3.8 million DOF; sparse solver

• Nonlinear static analysis involving contact, plasticity
and gasket elements
•One load step with 6 sub-steps
• Finite sliding contact option in R17.2: 53 equilibrium iterations
• Finite sliding contact option in R18.2: 45 equilibrium iterations

(Improvement is due to better estimation of the contact stiffness for gasket elements)
• Small sliding contact option in R18.2: 27 equilibrium iterations

Multiple Beams-to-Beams Contact
KEYOPT(14): Multiple target segments interacting with each contact detection point
0 -- Only one target segment KEYOPT(14) = 2 &

KEYOPT(3) = 1
1 -- Up-to four target segments
2 -- Up-to eight target segments KEYOPT(14) = 2 &
KEYOPT(3) = 2
Parallel beam Crossing beam
Each node
I,J,K
KEYOPT(14)=0 KEYOPT(4)=0 Force 1 0

KEYOPT(4)=1 Traction
KEYOPT(4)=2 Traction 1 1
KEYOPT(4)=3 Traction 0 1
KEYOPT(4)=4 Force
KEYOPT(14)=1 KEYOPT(4)=0 Force 4 Max 0
KEYOTP(4)=1 Traction
KEYOPT(4)=2 Traction 4 Max 4 Max
KEYOPT(4)=3 Traction 0 4 Max
KEYOPT(4)=4 Force
KEYOPT(14)=2 KEYOPT(4)=0 Force 8 Max 0
KEYOTP(4)=1 Traction
KEYOPT(4)=2 Traction 8 Max 8 Max
KEYOPT(4)=3 Traction 0 8 Max KEYOPT(14) = 1 & KEYOPT(14) = 0 &
KEYOPT(3) = 2 KEYOPT(3) = 1
KEYOTP(4)=4 Force

Five-filament coil inside a polymer tube Model
Case1: Case2: Case3 :
(solid tube-solid coils) (solid tube-beam coils) (beam tube-beam coils)
SOLID186 - BEAM189 PIPE289 - BEAM189
SOLID186 - SOLID186
DMP with NP=8 Case1 Case2 Case3

Real id # 2 contact among the coil
Real id # 3 contact between the coil and tube Wall time 12153 3955 3342
Cum. iteration 416 201 280
Max Usum 2.11646 2.117 2.11673
Max Seqv 1991.47 1529.36 1566.15
Contact Enhancements
• Power Law Debonding Model for Mixed Mode

Fracture
• Orthotropic Friction with Fixed Friction

Coordinate System
• Viscous Friction Law for Steady State Rolling

Improvement of Transient Dynamics Robustness
• Feature: New time integration algorithm-Backward Euler time integration
– Motivation: Some non-linear problems can only achieve convergence with Backward Euler time
integration due to the high numerical damping inherent in the algorithm
• Feature: Set default time integration constants and solver settings and based on
application
– Motivation: Time integration constants and solver settings can change convergence and
performance.

Backward Euler time integration
Drill string analysis Rubber Foot Simulation- A snap through problem
A modified version of Drill string analysis from a oil &

gas customer Backward Euler time integration helps in convergence
Can only converge using the new Backward Euler Time like non-linear stabilization but user does not have to
Integration play to get the right “factor”
Large numerical damping in the algorithm helps in convergence in non-linear buckling problems

Mesh based reinforcements
• Mesh Independent Modeling with Higher Order
REINF265
Elements
–Supports higher order base elements, including
SOLID186, SOLID187, and SHELL281 elements giving
Improved geometrical modeling and solution accuracy
Fiber orientation of
reinforcing elements
• Full Membrane Reinforcing Stiffness

–Full plane stress state supported in both 2D and 3D
smeared reinforcing. Suitable for modeling
homogeneous reinforcing materials

Distributed ANSYS New Features
Distributed parallel version of Block Lanczos for

buckling analyses
Support for substructuring generation passes
(including CMS)
Results files can be combined during simulation
Automatic optimal domain decomposition for best
option for fastest solution
Support for 2-D to 3-D analysis capability

Improved scaling to 3000+ cores
DMP Scaling Comparison
450
R18.1
400
R18.2
350
Solver Rating - (runs per day)

R19.0
300
Solder balls
Mold 250
200
PCB
150
• 16 million DOF; sparse solver
• Nonlinear transient analysis 100
• Linux cluster; each compute node contains 2 Intel Xeon
50
Gold 6148 processors, 192GB RAM, SSD, RHEL 7.3
• Intel Omnipath interconnect 0
128 256 512 1024 2048 4096
Number of Cores
• Model courtesy of MicroConsult Engineering GmbH
• Cluster data provided by Intel via the Endeavor cluster

Improved scaling for unsymmetric matrices
DMP Scaling Comparison
180
R18.1
160
R18.2
140
Solver Rating - (runs per day)

R19.0
120
100 ~3x speedup
80
60
• 5.5 MDOF; sparse solver 40

• Nonlinear static analysis involving contact and
unsymmetric matrices 20
• Linux cluster; each compute node contains 2 Intel Xeon
Gold 6148 processors, 384GB RAM, SSD, CentOS 7.3 0
• Mellanox EDR Infiniband 16 32 64 128 256 512
Number of Cores
• Model and data courtesy of MicroConsult Engineering GmbH

HPC Licensing changes
The following products:
• Mechanical Enterprise (including Multiphysics bundle licenses)
• Mechanical Premium
• Mechanical Pro
All now get 4 cores. Adding HPC keys or packs will logically increase this.
I.e. Mechanical Premium + 1 HPC pack will enable 12 cores.

HPC packs now work across Mechanical, Fluids and Electronics products.

19.0 will be available in January 2018
Additional updates in
• Dynamics • Contact & non linear
transients
• Explicit Dynamics
• Topology Optimization
• RBD
• SMART Fracture
• Linear Dynamics
• Coupled Physics
• External Model
• Composites
• Mechanical Features
• MAPDL Solver
• Usability
• Acoustics
Release highlights
What’s New page within Mechanical

Room Acoustics
Room acoustics solving acoustic energy diffusion equation
• Predict the sound pressure level (SPL) in large room (concert hall …) where the Helmholtz wave equation solver leads to unaffordable computational
cost
• The mixed frequency-dependent boundary conditions the walls of rooms with absorption coefficients (SF,,ATTN,α)
• Rooms coupled via partition walls with the absorption coefficients (α) and transmission loss (R) (SF,,ATTN,α,R)
• Furniture scattering and absorption
• Frequency-dependent material properties (empty room diffusion coefficient, coefficient of atmospheric attenuation, furniture diffusion coefficient, and
furniture absorption coefficient) (TB,AFDM,,,,ROOM)
• The time- or frequency-dependent omnidirectional radiated sound power source (BF,,MASS)
• The initial condition of the acoustic energy density (IC,,ENKE)
• Steady-state and transient analysis for SPL and reverberant time
• MAPDL commands: acoustic element KEYOPT(1) = 3 , PRNS/PLNS, PRES/PLES, NSOL
Coupled rooms Flat room

Scattering Analysis of Incident Diffuse Sound Field
• Analysis types regarding to the incident diffuse sound field
• The incident diffuse sound field projects onto the structural panel and the vibrating panel generates the noise in open acoustic
domain. The acoustic domain is isolated by the structural panel from the incident domain (mesh free)
• The incident diffuse sound field that consists of thousands of planar waves with random phases and different incident angles
projects onto the rigid objects and scattered
• Scattered analysis of the diffuse sound field
• Scattering solution analogy to the scattering analysis of a single incident planar wave.
• Only total field formulation is used (the ASOL and ASCRES are invalid)
• Either PML or irregular PML must be used to truncated the open domain
• Average nodal result for multiple random solutions
• MAPDL commands: PRNS/PLNS,PRES,,,,,AVG
Reference sphere Plane waves
+z
max Maximum incident
angle
scatter
PML

Body Force in Convective Wave Equation
• The body force is taken into account the convective wave equation (mean flow effect)
• The force potential is introduced to present the body force in the convective wave equation solver
• MAPDL commands: BF,,UFOR

Linear Contact – Small Sliding: Bucking Analysis
First Mode Second

Mode
MPC contact 1.9616 17.303
Linear contact 1.9542 17.228
1 iteration with 0.95953 16.318

NL contact

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