Summer Training Report On Ansys

APDL and Workbench

Session: July-December 2015
TRAINING REPORT for the partail fulfillment of bachleor of technology in MAE
department

Submitted By:
Mohit Kumar Kushwaha
Roll No. : 03796203613
MAE - Vth Sem., Section - T14

Submitted to:
Mr. Somil Arora
Dept. of Mechanical and Automation,

MAE DEPARTMENT
NORTHERN INDIA ENGINEERING COLLEGE
SHASTRI PARK, NEW DELHI

CERTIFICATE

FORWARDING
It is my pleasure to be indebted to various people, who directly or indirectly
contributed in the development of this work and who influenced my thinking,
behavior, and acts during the course of study. I express my sincere gratitude to Mr.
G.P. Govil, worthy Director for providing me an opportunity to undergo summer
training at Northern India Engineering College.
I would also like to extend my gratitude for Mr. Neeraj Kumar HOD, Mechanical
And Automation Department for his constant effort to make training a fun learning
process to sow a new seed of prospectus for the life and future opportunities in the
field of design.
I am thankful to Mr. Rahul Singh, Assistant Professor & Co-Coordinator for his
support, cooperation, and motivation provided to me during the training for
constant inspiration, presence and blessings.
I also extend my sincere appreciation to Mr. Sunder Bhandari who provided their
valuable suggestions and precious time for accomplishing the training and making
of this report possible.

Mohit Kumar Kushwaha

MAE (T-14)
03796203613

DECLARATION
I, MOHIT KUMAR KUSHWAHA, student of MAE (T-14), enrollment number03796203613 studying at Northern India Engineering College, Shastri Park,
Delhi hereby declare that the summer training report on ANSYS submitted to
G.G.S. Indraprastha University, Delhi in partial fulfillment of Degree of
Bachelors of Mechanical And Automation is the original work conducted by me.

The information and data given in the report is authentic to the best of my
knowledge. This summer training report is not being submitted to any other
University for award of any other Degree, Diploma and Fellowship.

Mohit Kumar Kushwaha

MAE (T-14)
03796203613

ABSTRACT

This training includes the lessons of designing and

analyzing in Ansys which is an industrial level
software. I had made numerous numbers of design
and done different types of analysis on them such as
thermal analysis, stress analysis, CFD, vibration
analysis.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
CERTIFICATE
FORWARDING
ABSTRACT
CHAPTER 1: About the Company
1.1-Different products by company
CHAPTER 2:

Introduction To ANSYS
2.1- Introduction to Ansys Workbench
2.1(a)-Tool hosted by workbench
2.1(b)-Complete analysis system
2.1(c)-Guided Workflow
2.1(d)-Workbench environment
2.1(e)- Meshing at workbench

2.2-Introduction to Design Modeler

2.3-Preprocessing Workflow
2.4-Intoduction to Ansys APDL
CHAPTER 3:

ANSYS for Mechanical

CHAPTER 4:

Snapshots of solved Problems

CHAPTER 5:

References

Chapter:-1
ABOUT THE COMPANY:-

ANSYS, Inc. is an American engineering software developer

headquartered south of Pittsburgh in Cecil Township, Pennsylvania, and
United States. One of its most significant products is Ansys CFD, a
proprietary computational fluid dynamics (CFD) program.

ANSYS CFD allows engineers to test systems by simulating fluid flows

in a virtual environment for example, the fluid dynamics of ship
hulls; gas turbine engines (including the compressors, combustion
chamber, turbines and afterburners); aircraft aerodynamics; pumps, fans,
HVAC systems, mixing vessels, hydro cyclones, vacuum cleaners, etc.

CHAPTER :- 1.1
DIFFERENT PRODUCT BY COMPANY
ANSYS Workbench ApplicationsA
development framework upon which ANSYS applications are built. Applications
are available in the areas of structural mechanics, geometry, CFD, rigid dynamics,
electromagnetics, optimization and more.
Mechanical APDLtraditional ANSYS command driven interface.
ANSYS CFDStateoftheart CFD solvers, including CFX and FLUENT.
ANSYS ICEM CFDApplication containing CFD meshing tools with general pre
and postprocessing features.
ANSYS AUTODYN-Explicit dynamic solver for transient non
linear simulations involving large deformations and strains, non
linear material behavior, nonlinear buckling,
complex contact, fragmentation, and shock wave propagation.
ANSYS LSDYNALSTCs LSDYNA explicit dynamic solver technology with t
he pre/postprocessing power of ANSYS software. This powerful pairing can be u
sed to simulate crash tests, metal forging, stamping, and catastrophic failures.

Chapter:-2

INTRODUCTION TO ANSYS:ANSYS is a general purpose finite element modeling package for numerically
solving a wide variety of mechanical problems. These problems include:
static/dynamic structural analysis (both linear and nonlinear), heat transfer and
fluid problems, as well as acoustic and electro-magnetic problems.
In general, a finite element solution may be broken into the following three stages.
This is a general guideline that can be used for setting up any finite element
analysis.
1. Preprocessing: defining the problem; the major steps in preprocessing are given
below:
Define Key-points/lines/areas/volumes
Define element type and material/geometric properties
Mesh lines/areas/volumes as required
The amount of detail required will depend on the dimensionality of the analysis
(i.e. 1D, 2D, axisymmetric, 3D).
2. Solution: assigning loads, constraints and solving; here we specify the loads
(point or pressure), constraints (translational and rotational) and finally solve the
resulting set of equations.
3. Post-processing: further processing and viewing of the results; in this stage one
may wish to see:
Lists of nodal displacements
Element forces and moments
Deflection plots
Stress contour diagrams

ANSYS is a general purpose software, used to simulate interactions of

all disciplines of physics, structural, vibration, fluid dynamics, heat
transfer and electromagnetic for engineers.
So ANSYS, which enables to simulate tests or working conditions,
enables to test in virtual environment before manufacturing prototypes
of products. Furthermore, determining and improving weak points,
computing life and foreseeing probable problems are possible by 3D
simulations in virtual environment.
ANSYS software with its modular structure as seen in the table below
gives an opportunity for taking only needed features. ANSYS can work
integrated with other used engineering software on desktop by adding
CAD and FEA connection modules.

ANSYS can import CAD data and also enables to build a geometry with
its "preprocessing" abilities. Similarly in the same preprocessor, finite
element model (a.k.a. mesh) which is required for computation is
generated. After defining loadings and carrying out analyses, results can
be viewed as numerical and graphical.

ANSYS can carry out advanced engineering analyses quickly, safely and
practically by its variety of contact algorithms, time based loading
features and nonlinear material models.

ANSYS Workbench is a platform which integrate simulation

technologies and parametric CAD systems with unique automation and
performance. The power of ANSYS Workbench comes from ANSYS
solver algorithms with years of experience. Furthermore, the object of
ANSYS Workbench is verification and improving of the product in
virtual environment.

ANSYS Workbench, which is written for high level compatibility with

especially PC, is more than an interface and anybody who has an
ANSYS license can work with ANSYS Workbench. As same as ANSYS
interface, capacities of ANSYS Workbench are limited due to possessed
license.

CHAPTER: - 2.1
INTRODUCTION TO ANSYS WORKBENCH
What is Workbench?
Next Generation engineering simulation environment from ANSYS
A platform that combines the strength of core solvers with product managem
ent tools for better project and data management Integration framework
Integrates existing ANSYS technologies/applications
Allows for rapid integration of 3rdparty applications
Application framework
Develop new state of the art user interface applications UI toolkits.
Develop new, state of the art user interface, applications, UI tool kits
Common tools and services
Native data management
Parameter management and design points, units, expressions and journaling,
scripting and batch execution

CHAPTER: - 2.1 (a)

TOOLS HOSTED ON WORK BENCH

CHAPTER:- 2.1 (b)

Complete Analysis Systems

CHAPTER:-2.1 (c)

Guided Workflow

CHAPTER:- 2.1 (d)

Workbench Environment

CHAPTER:- 2.1(e)

Meshing at ANSYS Workbench

CHAPTER:- 2.2
INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN MODELER

Feature/History based Modeling

CAD like approach to create new models with sketchto3D operations

OR

Import models from CAD and perform various geometric operations to

prepare

Supports native CAD parameters

Drives changes by changing a few parameters in an automated way

Feature tree
Maintains history of all features

Analysis focused
Custom tools to repair, prepare and optimize

Direct Modeling

Import

models from CAD and perform various geometric operations to prepare

it for meshing

Locally parametric

More flexibility to make unplanned and

local changes
No features + no constraints = no regeneration failures
Easy to edit dumb neutral files
Easy to repair, prepare and optimize models for analysis

Analysis focused
Custom tools to repair, prepare and optimize models for analysis

GAMBIT (legacy ANSYS product), ANSYS SCDM

CHAPTER:- 2.3
PREPROCESSING WORKFLOW

CHAPTER:- 2.4
Introduction To Ansys APDL
The ANSYS Environment for ANSYS contains 2 windows: the Main Window and
an Output Window. Note that this is somewhat different from the previous version
of ANSYS which made use of 6 different windows.

Chapter:-3 ANSYS For Mechanical:ANSYS Mechanical software is a comprehensive FEA analysis (finite element)
tool for structural analysis, including linear, nonlinear and dynamic studies. The
engineering simulation product provides a complete set of elements behavior,
material models and equation solvers for a wide range of mechanical design
problems. In addition, ANSYS Mechanical offers thermal analysis and coupledphysics capabilities involving acoustic, piezoelectric, thermal, structural and
thermo-electric analysis.

ANSYS Mechanical allows efficient computation of large problems, such as this

detailed model of a complete combine.
Courtesy CLAAS.

Drogue parachute system analysis with inset submodel of the critical area using
nonlinear material properties.

Analysis types available in Workbench Mechanical:

Structural (static and transient): Linear and nonlinear structural analyses.
Dynamics:
modal, harmonic, random vibration, flexible and rigid dynamics.
Heat Transfer (steady state and transient):
-Solve for temperature field and heat flux. Temperaturedependent
conductivity, convection, radiation and materials allowed.
Magnetostatic: Perform various magnetic field analyses.
Electrical: Simulate electrical devices such as motors, solenoids, etc..

CHAPTER:- 4
PROJECTS
1. Sweep-Alphabets

2. Tapered- Key Model

3. Angle Bracket Model

4. Face Plate Model

5. Tyre-Model

6. Wheel Rim Model

7. Hook Model

8. 4 Bar Mechanism Model

9. Clamp, Nut & Bolt Assembly Model

10.Engine Thermal Analysis

11. Cylinder Head Thermal Analysis

12. Gear Stress Analysis

13. Axle Loading and Thermal- Analysis

14. Tuning- Fork Vibration Analysis

15. Clamp Assembly Loading Analysis

16. 2-D Fluid- Flow Analysis

17. Flow over Cylinder Analysis

18. Flow over Butterfly Valve Analysis

REFERENCES
Sites Refered:1.
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www.ansys.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSYS
www.mece.ualberta.ca/tutorials/ansys/AU/AU.html
www.mece.ualberta.ca/tutorials/ansys
www.ewp.rpi.edu/.../ernesto/hillb2/MEP/Other/Articles/MeshingGuide.pdf
web.deu.edu.tr/ansys/dokumanlar/workbench-tutorial.pdf
www.engr.uky.edu/~jbaker/ansystutor.html

Books Refered:

Bathe, K.J., "Finite Element Procedures", 1996.

[STI: very good intro FEA book, has good intro section on nonlinearities as well.]
Hurty, W.C., Rubinstein, M.F., "Dynamics of Structures", 1964.
[STI: very useful book on dynamics, uses matrix methods, so easily extendable to FEA]

White, F.M., "Fluid Mechanics", 4th ed, 1999

[STI: good fluid dynamics text]

Welty, J.R., Wicks, C.E., Wilson, R.E., "Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass
Transfer", 3rd ed, 1984

Kinsler, L.E., Frey, A.R., Coppens, A.B., Sanders, J.V., "Fundamentals of Acoustics", 3rd
ed., 1982
[STI: good intro text on acoustics]