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1 New Features
ANSYS Release 8.1 New Feature Update
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ANSYS Release 8.1

8.1 New Features
New and Exiting Developments in:

Nonlinear Mechanics Physics Coupling Solver Performance Meshing CAD Integration Optimization
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ANSYS Release 8.1

8.1 New Features
This presentation is organized into four primary parts highlighting new v8.1 features:
ANSYS Mechanical family of products. ANSYS Multiphysics ANSYS Workbench ANSYS DesignXplorer Parallel Performance
Mechanical Multiphysics Workbench DesignXplorer Parallel
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ANSYS Release 8.1 Mechanical Products
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Release 8.1: New Features

8.1 New Features
Nonlinear analysis
Contact Setup and Convergence Element Technology and Transient Dynamics Materials Technology and Curve Fitting
Linear analysis
CMS, Constant Material Damping and Linear Dynamics Enhancements
Usability and Miscellaneous

Usability and Other Enhancements Undocumented Features
Solvers
PCG, DPCG Sparse Other solver enhancement
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Nonlinear Analysis
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Contact Setup and Convergence

8.1 New Features
Contact setup: Enhanced contact-pair management allows more efficient setup and execution of a contact analysis. Benefits
You can run a partial solution of the model in its initial configuration and postprocess contact quantities (such as contact pressure, penetration, status, etc.) at time 0, before the actual solution. The new capability allows you to identify contact configurations that may be at risk for convergence difficulties. You can reduce initial penetration or gap by physically moving contact nodes towards the target surface.
Commands
New options on the CNCHECK command
Nonlinear diagnostics: To debug models that experience convergence difficulties due to contact. Benefits
New command options allow you to track specific contact quantities during the solution (for example, result items such as contact penetration and chattering level, and some contact setting parameters such as contact stiffness and pinball radius). The contact data are computed on a per-contact-pair basis; that is, they represent a maximum or minimum value for the specified quantity over the entire contact pair.
Commands
NLHIST command
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Contact Technology Diagnostics

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View contact status before solving using CNCHECK,POST
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Setup Nonlinear Diagnostics Monitoring: This step can be done either prior to running a solution or prior to executing a restart after a convergence failure. Commands: /SOL NLDIAG,NRRE,1 NLDIAG,EFLG,1
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Results Variables: Track solution variables during SOLVE
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Run the Solution and while the solution is running, activate results tracker plots of the variables created. These graphs should be updating as the solution progresses.
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Plot NR Residuals during convergence problems.
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Other Contact Enhancements

8.1 New Features
An augmented Lagrange algorithm (when KEYOPT(2) = 0) improves convergence with very difficult models. Likewise, improved contact stiffness (which updates automatically per iteration when KEYOPT(10) = 2) allows improved convergence and more accurate solutions. This release adds CEINTF logic for solid-solid assemblies using MPC contact, providing more accurate solutions. Improved overconstraint detection for MPC contact allows more complex MPC models to solve successfully.
Node-to-surface contact now fully supports all the same multi-physics DOFs that surface-to-surface contact supports. Benefits
This offers users more contact options and, when applicable, the possibility of more efficient multi-physics runs.
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Multiphysics Contact Enhancements

8.1 New Features
Consider the FEA simulation of a resistance spot weld process using the plane67 thermal-electric elements and contact. Using conventional surface to surface contact, the model takes 65 iterations to converge. Using node-to-surface contact, this same model converges in only 37 iterations.
Copper Electrodes Steel Plates
Voltage Distribution
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Element Technology
8.1 New Features
In beam design, it is customary to employ components of stress that contribute to axial loads and bending in each direction separately. To that end, the BEAM188/BEAM189 elements now provide a linearized stress output as part of the SMISC output record.
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Element Technology
8.1 New Features
The MPC184 multipoint constraint element's Revolute Joint and Universal Joint options now allow nonlinear stiffness, damping, and hysteretic friction on the unrestricted components of relative motion of the joints. MPC184 element with the Rigid option (KEYOPT(1) = 1) is now supported in modal and prestressed modal analyses using the Block Lanczos and QRDAMP eigensolvers (MODOPT,LANB and MODOPT,QRDAMP), and in modal harmonic and modal transient analyses (HROPT,MSUP and TRNOPT,MSUP).
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Transient Dynamics
8.1 New Features
HHT Time-Integration: When performing a full transient structural analysis, you can now select the HHT time-integration method as an alternative to the default Newmark method.
Benefits:
The HHT method offers better numerical damping capability, providing controllable numerical damping in the higher frequency modes while maintaining accuracy in the important low frequency modes.
Commands:
To activate the HHT time-integration method, set TINTOPT = HHT on the TRNOPT command and input related integration parameters via the TINTP command. From within the ANSYS GUI, you can access these settings via the Solution Controls dialog box.
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Transient Dynamics
8.1 New Features
You can now issue a PRNSOL or PLNSOL command to list or plot, respectively, the nodal velocity and nodal acceleration in the /POST1 postprocessor as you would with a nodal displacement solution. You can also issue a PRVAR or PLVAR command to list or plot, respectively, the time history of velocity and acceleration for a specified node in the /POST26 postprocessor.
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Materials Technology
8.1 New Features
Gasket Transverse Shear: Transverse shear stiffness can now be included as a material property for gasket elements (INTER192 -INTER194). By default, gasket elements account for through-thickness behavior only, but now you can enable the transverse shear stress option by setting KEYOPT(2) = 1. Benefits
Use of this option helps to eliminate rigid body motion of the gasket. In previous releases this rigid body motion had to be restricted by restraining the DOF in the transverse direction.
Commands
You can define transverse shear stiffness via the gasket material command TB,GASKET with TBOPT = TSS. By default, stable stiffness is used if the transverse shear stiffness is not defined.
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Materials Technology
8.1 New Features
As with gasket pressure, transverse shear stress is also available for post processing via conventional procedures. By GUI method:
Or by commands method: PLNSOL, GKS,XY PLESOL, GKS,XY

Model Deflections
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Curve Fitting Enhancement

8.1 New Features
The Curve Fitting Tool (TBFT) now allows selected coefficients to be fixed. This is very useful, especially for viscoelasticity and creep. Benefits
Viscoelasticity: Solve for one temperature, fix all of the coefficients except for the shift coefficients and then solve for each new temperature. This simplifies the solution. Creep: If the creep data is temperature independent, set the temperature coefficient to zero and fix it. Hyperelasticity: First solve for a lower order model (e.g., 2nd order Ogden), then solve for a higher order model (e.g., 3rd order Ogden) after fixing the first few coefficients of the lower order model (e.g., the first 4 coefficients from the 2nd order Ogden model).
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Curve Fitting Enhancement

8.1 New Features
Fix constants
Vary constants
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Linear Dynamics
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CMS Analysis
8.1 New Features
General Idea Modal Representation: Describe the motion separately over each of the substructures (components). Synthesis: Constrain the components to work together as a single structure by satisfying inter-component compatibility and equilibrium constraints. Why use CMS ? Flexibility: If only a part of a large assembly needs redesigned, such as the landing gear of an aircraft assembly, CMS provides the flexibility to just modify that Component, landing gear in this case, and do a CMS use pass run to get the response of the full assembly. Better Preliminary Analyses: For example, car companies have CMS files for various car body parts such as roofs, doors panels, et al. Using CMS they are able to find out the response of a full model car configuration by selecting a door and a roof from different door and roof models that they already have CAE data for. Optimize Designs: Different groups are free to design different parts allowing for optimized designs
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CMS Enhancement
8.1 New Features
Free-interface method: ANSYS now supports the free-interface CMS analysis method. The new method allows unconstrained interface nodes and considers rigid body modes in the CMS superelement generation pass. Benefits
While the fixed-interface method (ANSYS 8.0) is preferable in most CMS analyses, ANSYS recommends the free-interface method when your analysis requires more accurate eigenvalues computed at the mid- to high-end of the spectrum. With the free-interface method, the matrix employed for CMS transformations is different than that for the fixed-interface method
Expand all eigen modes: You can now expand CMS superelement eigen modes modes 1 through N (that is, between a specified beginning and ending time or frequency range) in a single solve step, instead of expanding a single mode at each solve step.
Prestressed modal analysis with CMS superelements: The prestressed condition of a component structure can now be accounted for in the CMS superelement generation. Both fixed- and free-interface methods support the generation of prestressed CMS superelements.
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CMS Example
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PART2
PART3 INTERFACE2 INTERFACE3
The 2D tuning fork is already broken up into three element components as shown. Three nodal components also exist that will be used to define the SuperElement interfaces.
PART1 INTERFACE1
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CMS Generation Pass

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CMS Generation Pass

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CMS Use Pass

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Can Include Pre-stress Effects

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CMS Use Pass

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CMS Expansion Pass

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CMS Post-Processing
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CMS Fixed Versus Free Method

8.1 New Features
Table of modal frequency results Accuracy of CMS free interface method compared to CMS fixed interface method.
Frequencies (Hz) Modes 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
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Error (%) CMS Free 204.958 654.403 1,326.91 2,118.13 3,023.30 3,427.08 5,117.47 6,216.90 9,227.01 10,277.0 13,691.1 CMS Fixed 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.001 0.002 0.001 0.003 0.007 0.009 0.012 0.023 CMS Free 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Full Model 204.958 654.403 1,326.91 2,118.13 3,023.30 3,427.08 5,117.47 6,216.89 9,227.01 10,277.0 13,691.1
CMS Fixed 204.958 654.403 1,326.91 2,118.16 3,023.36 3,427.13 5,117.63 6,217.32 9,227.88 10,278.2 13,694.3
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PSD Analysis and Constant Material Damping

8.1 New Features
Equivalent Stress for PSD Analysis: The calculation of equivalent stress (SEQV) has been improved for random vibration (PSD) analyses using the Segalman-Reese algorithm. Principal stresses and stress intensity (S1, S2, S3, and SINT) are no longer available. Support is now available for full (ANTYPE,HARM and HROPT,FULL) and modal harmonic (ANTYPE,HARM and HROPT,MSUP) analyses when several materials, each having their own damping ratio that remains constant with respect to the excitation frequency, are present. An enhanced MP command supports the new capability.
When constant damping ratios are specified (DMPRAT and MP,DMPR) in a frequencyresponse analysis, they are incorporated into the damping matrix automatically. Only the QR damped eigensolver (MODOPT,QRDA) supports the material-dependent constant damping ratio application in modal superposition harmonic analyses. Power Spectral Density (PSD) and Multi-Point Response Spectrum (MPRS) analyses do not support constant material damping for multiple materials
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Usability and Miscellaneous
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Post-Processing GUI Changes

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Usability
8.1 New Features
Tabular loading: Tabular loads can now support loading as a function of X, Y or Z in a local coordinate system. The local coordinate system can be in the Cartesian, Cylindrical or Spherical coordinate system. When defining the table parameter, the coordinate system ID should also be specified (*DIM). Macro and command file error handling: If a macro or /INPUT (File > Read Input From) of a command file is executed in the wrong module, repeated warnings occur. (For example, warnings appear if you try to issue a PLNSOL command in /PREP7 because PLNSOL is not a valid command, abbreviation or macro in the preprecessor.) Upon encountering five such warnings, a dialog now appears allowing you to stop and exit the macro or /INPUT mode cleanly. You can modify the new behavior via a new /NERR command option.
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Other Enhancements
8.1 New Features
Heat Transfer PLANE55 -- A thickness option has been added for this element. This option is useful for applications (such as turbomachinery) where 2-D models need to be coupled with 3-D regions. SOLID87 -- An option (KEYOPT(5) = 1) has been added to use a consistent surface convection load matrix. The new option provides a more accurate solution on surfaces with large thermal gradients.
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Undocumented Features
8.1 New Features
The following command is no longer documented and may be removed from ANSYS at a future date: GCGEN -- This command was valid only with the CONTAC48 and CONTAC49 elements, which are also no longer documented as of this release The following elements are no longer documented and may be removed from ANSYS at a future date: CONTACxx -- Old inputs using the following contact elements will continue to work, but you should update them to use the newer element:
Undocumented Element CONTAC48 CONTAC49 CONTAC26
Replace With
CONTA175
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Solvers
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Solver Enhancements
8.1 New Features
DPCG and PCG solvers now support large deformation and strain (NLGEOM,ON command) when memory saving is activated (MSAVE,ON).
The Lanczos eigensolver now supports modal analysis for elements using u-P formulation options:
Constraint MPC184 element and the 180 series of new generation continuum elements which use u-P options.
The u-P formulation elements can now be used in analysis types which use eigensolutions as a basis. These include modal superposition harmonics, modal superposition transient, and PSD analyses. Enhancements to memory and data handling, with the memory-saving option (MSAVE,ON) and PCG or DPCG solvers; The line search option (LNSRCH,ON) has been enhanced to handle contact and plasticity problems more efficiently; Resulting in overall savings of 10 percent in cumulative iterations for a run. Line searching itself is also faster, particularly for models using elements with extra shapes or enhanced strain formulations.
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Multiphysics
8.1 New Features
ANSYS Multiphysics (Including ANSYS Emag & FLOTRAN CFD)
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Multiphysics Topics
8.1 New Features
Low Frequency Electromagnetics

High Frequency Electromagnetics Phased Array Antenna Analysis Multi-field Solver Speed & efficiency enhancements FLOTRAN
Turbulence models Conjugate Heat Transfer Electric Field Elements Current loading for SOLID117
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Low Frequency Electromagnetics
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New Electric Field Analysis Capabilities

8.1 New Features
Analysis Requirement: Many real world electric field applications use lossy (mildly conductive) dielectric materials and require a quasistatic electric analysis to simultaneously consider capacitive and conduction effects. New Features to Meet Requirement: Three new high-order electric elements, PLANE230, SOLID231, and SOLID232, are now available for a low frequency electric field analysis. The elements are applicable to steady-state electric conduction, timeharmonic and transient quasistatic electric field analyses. The electrostatic PLANE121, SOLID122 and SOLID123 elements have been enhanced to support a time-harmonic quasistatic analysis.
Capability: You can now perform an electric field analysis that simultaneously takes into account the conduction and capacitive effects. The new and enhanced elements also allow you to transfer the calculated electric current and conduction or dielectric heating as sources for subsequent magnetic and thermal analyses respectively.
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New Electric Field Analysis Applications

8.1 New Features
General Applications:
Lossy capacitors Microwave passive components (when full-wave analysis can be avoided) Transient effects in semiconductor devices High voltage insulators Charge injection devices Dielectric heating Particle detection
Biotissue Medical Applications:
Detection of malignant tissue Electric Impedance Tomography (EIT) Electromyography (EMG) test muscle response to nervous (electric) Angiography help locate and characterize atherosclerotic lesions Ablation RF heating of cardiac tissue to cure rhythm disturbances
stimulation
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New 23X Electric Field Elements

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PLANE230, SOLID231, SOLID232 High-order shape functions Material properties:
resistivity - MP,RSVX (RSVY,RSVZ)

permittivity - MP,PERX (PERY,PERZ) valid for transient and harmonic analyses loss tangent - MP,LSST valid for harmonic analysis only electric current (AMPS) static (steady-state current conduction analysis) transient (quasistatic) harmonic (quasistatic) heat generation rate to a thermal analysis electric current to a magnetic analysis
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Reaction solution: Analyses:
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23X Elements Input Summary

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PLANE230 Name 2-D 8-node
SOLID231 3-D 20-node electric solid
SOLID232 3-D 10-node
Geometry Product MP,EM,PP,ED
DOF
Reaction Material Properties KEYOPT(3)
electric scalar potential (VOLT)

total (conduction + displacement) electric current (AMPS) RSVX, RSVY, PERX, PERY, LSST RSVZ, PERZ 0 - Plane 1-Axisymmetric
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Enhanced 12X Electrostatic Elements

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PLANE121, SOLID122, SOLID123
Enhancements in red italic text!
High-order shape functions

Material properties:
relative permittivity MP,PERX (PERY,PERZ) loss tangent - MP,LSST valid for harmonic analysis only
resistivity - MP,RSVX (RSVY,RSVZ) valid for harmonic analysis only

electric charge (CHRG) static harmonic (quasistatic) electrostatic forces to a structural analysis heat generation rate to a thermal analysis
Reaction solution: Analyses:
Load transfer
total current to a magnetic analysis

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12X Elements Input Summary

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PLANE121 Name 2-D 8-node
SOLID122 3-D 20-node electrostatic solid
SOLID123 3-D 10-node
Geometry Product DOF Reaction Material Properties KEYOPT(3) MP,EM,PP,ED electric scalar potential (VOLT) electric charge current (CHRG) RSVX, RSVY, PERX, PERY, LSST RSVZ, PERZ 0 - Plane 1-Axisymmetric
KEYOPT(4) KEYOPT(5)
0 - CS parallel to global, 1 - CS based on the I-J side

0 basic printout, 1 basic solution at int. pts, 2 nodal field printout
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23X Elements GUI

8.1 New Features
PLANE230, SOLID231, SOLID232 added to Library of Element Types as Electric Conduction elements
Menu path:
Main Menu>Preprocessor>Element Type>Add/Edit/Delete
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23X,12X Elements ANTYPE GUI

8.1 New Features
PLANE230, SOLID231, SOLID232 support steady-state, harmonic, and transient analyses
PLANE121, SOLID122, SOLID123 support static and harmonic analyses

Menu Paths:
Main Menu>Preprocessor>Loads>Analysis Type>New Analysis Main Menu>Solution>Analysis Type>New Analysis
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Electromagnetics Analysis Elements

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Product
Material Properties
Emag Analysis Class
Multiphysics
Emag Y
Dielectric
Electric conduction Dielectric losses
Magnetic
Static or Steady-state
Plane121 Solid122 Solid123 (VOLT-CHRG)
Plane230,Solid231,Solid232 (VOLT-AMPS) Thermo-electric elements (VOLT-TEMP)
Solid5,Solid98,Solid96 (MAG-FLUX) Plane13,Plane53,Solid97 Solid117 (AX,AY,AZ CSGX,CSGY,CSGZ)
LF Emag
Harmonic Transient
Harmonic analysis Plane121,Solid122,Solid123 (VOLT-CHRG)
Transient & Harmonic analysis: Plane230,Solid231,Solid232 (VOLT-AMPS)
Plane13,Plane53,Solid97,Solid117 (AX,AY,AZ CSGX,CSGY,CSGZ VOLT AMPS)
HF Emag
Modal Harmonic
HF118, HF119, HF120 (AX CSGX)
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Example steady state electric field analysis

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A current I is applied at two point electrodes (e) on a thin conducting disk as shown in the figure: e
I
Problem parameters:
disk radius 20 cm
point electrode separation 20 cm current I=1 mA disk resistivity =100 *m
Analysis requirement: Find the potential and dc-current distributions in the disk
FEA Model:
Triangular PLANE230 electric elements 23,789 nodes, 11766 elements
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Steady-State Electric Analysis - Results

8.1 New Features
Electric potential (VOLT) distribution
Electric current density (JC) distribution

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Example Transient Electric Field Analysis

8.1 New Features
Problem Description:
A capacitor has 2 separate layers of lossy dielectric materials between its plates. Dielectric material 1: 1cm thick, r = 2, = 2E8 Dielectric material 2: 2 cm thick, r =4, = 8E8 A 1V potential is applied across the electrodes over a 1ms period of time
FEA Model:
2D triangular mesh of PLANE230 electric field elements. Electrodes are left and right hand boundaries of mesh
Analysis Objective:
Determine time-varying results for:
Voltage (VOLT) Conduction current density (JC) Electric field strength (EF)
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Transient Electric Field Analysis Results

8.1 New Features
Time varying contours of voltage
Time varying vectors of electric field strength EF
Note: As the charge accumulates on material interface, the voltage gradient across more conductive material on left diminishes.
Multiphysics
Transient Electric Field Analysis Results

8.1 New Features
Comparison of analytical and ANSYS computed results:
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New SOURC36 Capability

8.1 New Features
Analysis Requirement:
Prior to release 8.1, SOURC36 meshless current source primitives could only be used in combination with magnetic scalar potential (MSP) elements (SOLID5, SOLID96, SOLID98).
Enhancement:
SOURC36 may now serve as a current source for the 3D edge flux potential elements (SOLID117) This capability applies to 3-D static analyses only.
Benefit: Easy to use, more efficient coil analysis when using SOLID117 elements. The underlying region can be meshed separately from the coils, and the coils described conveniently with SOURC36 primitives. Solenoidal conditions are automatically satisfied. The current can be input to SOLID117 elements via the CUR real constant on SOURC36, much easier than the alternative method involving manually defining body loads on each element.
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SOURC36 Analysis Example

8.1 New Features
Quarter symmetry model of solenoid using source36 for coil:

yoke SOURC36 coil primitive Space in which coil resides
armature
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SOURC36 Analysis Example

8.1 New Features
Quarter symmetry model of solenoid magnetic flux density (vectors) results using source36 for coil:
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High Frequency Electromagnetics
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New Phased Array Capability

8.1 New Features
Analysis Requirement: Many real world HF antennas consist of geometric arrays of smaller identical antennas with different transmit phases. This approach improves antenna sensitivity, and also allows dynamic control over the antenna directional properties. New Features to Meet Requirement: High-frequency electromagnetic elements (HF119, HF120) support periodic boundary conditions Uses Floquets periodic principle to allow phased array antenna analyses. Uses far field extension to compute radiation pattern and directive gain of array. Benefit: Drastic reduction in problem size and resulting increase in solution speed. Ability to solve class of antenna radiation problems previously beyond our scope!
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Phased Array Analysis Example

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Antenna consisting of 25 X 25 array and single cell modeled
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Phased Array Results

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Antenna directive gain for single cell & full 25 X 25 array
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Phased Array Results

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Animation of Y component of electric field for single array cell
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Multi-field Solver
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Multi-field Solver Enhancements

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Enhanced Feature: The following enhancements have been made to the dissimilar mesh mapping aspects of the Multi-field solver: Mapping information can be saved to a file for a later restart so that costly mapping calculations do not have to be repeated, especially for volumetric load transfer. The mapping calculation can occur before issuing the SOLVE command (i.e. in /PREP7 or /SOLU). Mapping diagnostics are improved for curved geometry. The bucket search algorithm is more robust than the global search algorithm, and is now the default algorithm for mapping. Benefits: Overall increase in solution speed and efficiency of the Multi-field solver. Solution speed gains of up to 17% have been measured on three field problems. Largest gains can be expected for applications coupling more fields with greater differences between each fields meshes, such as Fluid-solid interaction and RF-thermal heating.
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FLOTRAN Turbulence Models & Conjugate Heat Transfer
V8.1 New Features
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FLOTRAN Heat Transfer Example

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Conjugate Heat Transfer problem involving turbulent flow through a 90 degree bend. Fluid tetrahedral mesh shown below:
Inlet Velocity 0.5 m/sec Inlet Temperature 333K Outlet Condition P=0
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FLOTRAN Heat Transfer Example

8.1 New Features
Fluid temperature results or SST turbulence model.
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FLOTRAN SST Model versus K-Epsilon

8.1 New Features
Detail of recirculation zone, Fluid velocity vectors. SST model accurately predicts secondary recirculation zone. K-Epsilon does not.
SST Turbulence Model
K-Epsilon Turbulence Model
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FLOTRAN SST Model versus K-Epsilon

8.1 New Features
Detail of recirculation zone, Fluid temperature. SST model MATCHES experimental results in secondary recirculation zone. K-Epsilon does not.
SST Turbulence Model
K-Epsilon Turbulence Model
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Workbench
8.1 New Features
ANSYS Workbench
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Workbench
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Workbench Start-up
ANSYS Workbench V8.1 New Features
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Workbench
Workbench Start Page

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Improved Ease of Use Direct Access to Workbench Windows Project Page Available for Managing Files
Geometry Accessed from Simulation Window Active CAD Systems Files

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Workbench
Workbench Options Menu

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Global Workbench Options Control Common Settings for All Applications Unique Preferences That are Application Specific
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Workbench
Workbench Options Menu

8.1 New Features
Mouse View Control Settings Set Same as CAD Systems Unique Preferences View Operations Supported Rotate Pan Zoom Box Zoom
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Communication
8.1 New Features
New communication method that does not involve SPAM. Can Provide Support Updates for:
Service Packs Training Tips & Tricks FAQs
RSS News Headlines

ANSYS Corporate Local Support News
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8.1 New Features
Non-Linear Materials
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Nonlinear Materials
8.1 New Features
Bilinear Stress-Strain Bilinear Isotropic Hardening Model Specify:

Yield Stress Tangent Modulus
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Nonlinear Materials
8.1 New Features
Multilinear Stress-Strain Multilinear Isotropic Hardening Model Specify:

Tabular entry of stress-strain data.
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8.1 New Features
Solution Feedback and Results
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Convergence History
8.1 New Features
Solution Output Object Force Max DOF Increment Line Search Value Time Increment
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Result Tracker
8.1 New Features
Provides displacement or contact result plots. Return Newton-Raphson residual forces Helps in determining the cause of convergence failures in nonlinear analyses.
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Result Tracker Types

8.1 New Features
Directional Deformations (x, y, z) Contact

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Contact Result Tool

8.1 New Features
A Contact Tool object can be added to a Solution folder Allows users to conveniently scope contact results to a common selection of geometry or contact regions.
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Contact Tool - Reactions

8.1 New Features
Reactions for all contact pairs are summarized in the
worksheet view.
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Command Objects
8.1 New Features
Users familiar with ANSYS commands and APDL programming can now enter commands directly Commands objects. After inserting a Commands object at the Environment or Solution level, the Worksheet tab transforms to a text editing window for entering the commands.
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Command Objects
8.1 New Features
Multiple instances are allowed

Command objects can be exported or inserted
Parametric output back to WB
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8.1 New Features
Meshing
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Mesh Refinement Control

8.1 New Features
Sphere of Influence Applied to a face Anchored to a user defined coordinate system
Sphere of Influence Applied to a vertex
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Tri / Surface Meshing Algorithms

8.1 New Features
Better Transitions in 3D Advancing Front Improved Point Placement for Delaunay
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Automatic Contact Sizing

8.1 New Features
With Contact Sizing
No Contact Sizing
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Automatic Contact Sizing

8.1 New Features
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Contact Size Mesh

8.1 New Features
DragnDrop contact regions from Contact Folder to Mesh Folder
Absolute (default) or Relative Sizing Options

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Proximity Control
8.1 New Features
Performs Edge proximity pre-refinement for nonswept models May increase model size
With Proximity
Without Proximity
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8.1 New Features
CAD Integration
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CAD System Updates

8.1 New Features
Catia V5 R12 UG NX2 Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire Autodesk Inventor 8 Autodesk Mechanical Desktop 2004 DX SolidWorks 2004 Solid Edge 15 Parasolid 15.1 ACIS R12
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CAD Integration
8.1 New Features
Smart Updates
Speed up the assembly update by updating only components that have been modified Implemented for Unigraphics and Autodesk Inventor A user preference to turn on Smart Update is available in Start Page under Advanced Geometry Preferences and the Geometry node details view
Attach and Update a model that is open in ProEngineer from Intralink
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8.1 New Features
Remote Solutions
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Overview - Remote Solving

8.1 New Features
Can be used on the client machine

Allows work in other branches while solving locally
Can use LSF to solve remotely Servers

LSF Localhost CE (Beta) will allow remote solving without LSF
Submission
WB shutdown or switch allowed Retrieval of queued jobs later in time
Numerous GUI changes for Preview 3

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Remote Solving
8.1 New Features
Can solve on local machine, LSF cluster or UNIX server
Each Solution can be sent to a different server Analysis license can be selected
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Remote Solving
8.1 New Features
Each remote option has defaults in the Options dialog
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Remote Solving
8.1 New Features
The status page shows all submitted jobs
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8.1 New Features
Miscellaneous Simulation Features
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Pretension Bolt Loads

8.1 New Features
Pretension Application Types:

Load (force) Introduced at v8.0 as a Mechanical feature. Adjustment (length, Now Enabled by DesignSpace number of threads)
Load Adjustment
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Miscellaneous Enhancements
8.1 New Features
Right Mouse Button rename contact, results, etc.

Users can change the default name of a contact region to match corresponding descriptive names for items in the Geometry branch of the tree that make up the contact region. Clicking the right mouse button on a contact region and choosing Rename Based on Geometry in the context menu changes the name of that contact region. Clicking the right mouse button on the Contact branch and choosing the same option changes the names of all contact regions under the branch.
Configurable contact worksheet

When viewing a worksheet of a Contact folder or a Contact Reactions item, users now have the ability to select which columns to display in the worksheet table. The choice is made in a context menu through a right mouse button click inside the worksheet table.
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8.1 New Features
Right Mouse Button flip contact target and contact

For asymmetric contact, a useful enhancement at this release is the ability to flip contact and target faces or edges in a contact region. This feature is available through a right mouse click on the contact region and choice of the Flip Contact/Target context menu item. All contact and target items displayed under Scope in the Details View are reversed.
Point mass
Users can apply a Point Mass to the model from the Geometry object. The location of a point mass can be anywhere in space and it can be defined in a local coordinate system.
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8.1 New Features
Loads in local coordinate system

Forces, remote forces, bearing loads, moments and given displacements can now be defined in a local coordinate system. With this capability, users no longer need to transform the loads and given displacements into the global coordinate system manually. When any of these loads or given displacements are defined by components in the Details View, a new drop down menu is available from which users select a specific coordinate system to be applied.
Contact results in solution combinations

A Contact Tool object can now be added to a Solution or Solution Combination folder that allows users to conveniently scope contact results to a common selection of geometry or contact regions. Using a Contact Tool, all possible contact results can be investigated at one time for a given scoping.
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8.1 New Features
Geometry - DesignModeler
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DM - Multiple Treeview Selection

8.1 New Features
You can now select multiple items in the feature tree. This allows you to perform operations on several items at once. For example:
Suppress, unsuppress, and delete multiple features at once Hide and suppress multiple bodies at once
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Cross Section Improvements

8.1 New Features
Several new options make aligning and assigning cross sections easier and more flexible.
Automatic alignment in global +Y direction
For unaligned edges, DM aligns the edge in the global +Y direction if the default global +Z direction is invalid
Additional angle option

Rotate property rotates the alignment vector around the edge by the specified angle
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Cross Section Improvements (cont)

8.1 New Features
Edge reversal
The Reverse Orientation property allows you to define the edge alignment with respect to the opposite endpoint
Direction Arrow
New direction arrow shows alignment direction when specifying the cross section alignment
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8.1 New Features
Improved Display Options

The cross section alignment arrows and solid representation can now be shown together
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8.1 New Features
Easier Cross Section Assignment

The cross sections are now assigned to line bodies through a combo box property
Vector Alignment for Cross Sections

Cross section alignment may also be specified by entering vector coordinates
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Automatic Dimension Moving

8.1 New Features
Now, dimensions will move with the edges they measure.

In the following picture, if dimension V2 is increased, then dimension H1 will automatically move up with the top edge of the rectangle.
Automatic movement can be turned on or off from the dimensions Details Box.
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Surface Extension
8.1 New Features
The Surface Extension feature extends surfaces to fill gaps in between bodies. Surfaces can be extended by a fixed distance or up to a bounding set of faces.
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Fill Feature
8.1 New Features
The Fill feature will create a new frozen body to fill the space occupied by a hole or cavity. Useful for CFD and Emag applications.
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Surfaces From Sketches Feature

8.1 New Features
Surfaces From Sketches allows you to quickly and easily create surfaces directly from sketch profiles.
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Import Options
8.1 New Features
New Import options allow greater control over imported geometry.
The Process property allows body filtering, while geometry healing options help clean up poor geometry.
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Planar Bodies
8.1 New Features
Planar bodies are flat surface bodies that lie in the XYPlane. They can be sent to the Simulation tab for 2D analysis. Planar bodies have a slightly different icon than other surface bodies in the Tree Views body list.
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More Modeling Improvements

8.1 New Features
Body Operation: Keep Option

You can choose to keep the selected bodies that are used in a Boolean operation
Multiple Surface Support for Joint

Any number of surfaces can be selected to join in a single Joint feature
Point Profiles for Skin/Loft

The Skin/Loft feature now accepts point profiles as the start and/or end profile.
Point Feature by Coordinates

Points can be created from scratch by reading in coordinates from a data file.
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More Modeling Improvements

8.1 New Features
Arc Center Alignment for Plane Feature Now you can choose to position the plane origin at the center of an arc on the boundary of the base face
Plane origin is placed at the center of this arc
No Save Required for Parameter Manager You no longer need to save the model in order to begin using the parameter manager
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8.1 New Features
Beta Features
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Mesh Matching (Beta)

8.1 New Features
Works for tet meshes only not needed for sweeping. No support for Hex Dominant First surface picked is master or HiSector Need a coordinate system to define sector Topology must match exactly
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Mesh Matching (Beta)

8.1 New Features
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Plane Stress (Beta)

8.1 New Features
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Axisymmetric (Beta)
8.1 New Features
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Beam Stress (Beta)

8.1 New Features
Direct Min Bending Max Bending Min Combined Max Combined

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8.1 New Features
Low Frequency Electromagnetics Simulation Beta Features
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Objectives - WB LF Emag
8.1 New Features
Objectives:
Provide full featured low frequency electromagnetics analysis capability in WorkBench. Accessed with ANSYS Emag (core or enabled task) or ANSYS Multiphysics license key. DM Enclosure for creation of field volume released at 8.0 Magnetostatics beta release ANSYS 8.1 Magnetostatics commercial release target ANSYS 9.0 Electrostatics and other LF electromagnetics capabilities will follow.
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WB LF Emag 8.1 Beta Features

8.1 New Features
Model setup with SOLID117

Air, iron (Keyopt(1)=0) Solid conductor (Solenoidal formulation: Keyopt(1)=5)
Enclosure body automatically assigned AIR material Emag unit conversions Conductor Object with Voltage and Current Loading Flux-parallel boundary condition Materials:
Relative permittivity, resistivity
Results request:
B, H, F
Solution: Will solve a linear magnetostatics problem Raster/Vector display option in Details View.
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WB LF Emag: Material Properties

8.1 New Features
Click mouse for zoom
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LF Emag Environment: Conductor

8.1 New Features
Click mouse for detail
Conductor object: Identifies conductors for load application, inductance, and postprocessing. Supports solid conductors now for loads. Will support stranded conductors as well at 9.0.
Loading: Tagged to Conductor. Supports voltage and current loading for solid conductor. Will support current loading for stranded conductors
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LF Emag Solution: Displayed Results

8.1 New Features
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LF Emag: Vector & Contour Plots

8.1 New Features
Vector / Contour is selected in the Solution objects Definition

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WB LF Emag 9.0 Features

8.1 New Features
Release 8.0 Beta features, plus: Support stranded coils (SOURC36) Support permanent magnets Winding editor for machines (via SOURC36) BH curve library Automated electromagnetic Force & Torque extraction tools. Automated Inductance tool Parameter sweep
displacement vs. force, torque or inductance
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DesignXplorer
8.1 New Features
Optimization - DesignXplorer
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DesignXplorer
DesignXplorer VT 8.1 Update

8.1 New Features
Topology Errors Independent Soluton Type Bonded MPC Contact Analysis in DesignXplorer VT Revised User Interface Design For Six Sigma Questions and Answers
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DesignXplorer

8.1 New Features
Topology Errors -- Topology Errors shows the topology changes that have caused DX VT to cut parameter ranges or fail to generate a solution
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DesignXplorer

8.1 New Features
Independent Soluton Type -- Workbench now supports the Independent Solution Type which evaluates the derivatives assuming that the input variables are independent. This option is recommended when you have more than 7 geometric parameters.
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DesignXplorer

8.1 New Features
Bonded MPC Contact Analysis in DX VT -- DesignXplorer VT now supports bonded MPC contact analysis for Surface-to-Surface Contact*
* - ANSYS 8.1 Service Pack #1
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DesignXplorer

8.1 New Features
Revised User Interface -- DesignXplorer features a re-design of the user interface, intended to simplify and streamline the process of creating and accessing data.
View Selector
View Sub Options
View Details
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DesignXplorer

8.1 New Features
Design for Six Sigma Analysis -- Design for Six Sigma is a technique that determines the extent to which uncertainties with respect to input parameters affect the finite element analysis results
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DesignXplorer

8.1 New Features
Design for Six Sigma Analysis Input Distributions
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DesignXplorer

8.1 New Features
Design for Six Sigma Analysis Output; Histograms, Probability Tables
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DesignXplorer

8.1 New Features
Design for Six Sigma Analysis Output; CDF, Probability Tables
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Parallel Performance for ANSYS

ANSYS Incorporated
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Parallel

8.1 New Features
Where is PPFA of the most benefit?

Any existing ANSYS customer with:
Processing large linear models faster Processing models that would not fit into the available hardware. (On four 32-bit machines, you can solve over 6 MDOF!) Processing long running nonlinear analyses that can be solved by the PCG solver* Processing jobs as fast as possible. Here the need is just shear throughput.
* Sparse is under development for 9.0
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Parallel

8.1 New Features
Where is PPFA of the most benefit?

Any existing customer interested in:
Quicker turnaround time
(Factors up to 6.5x for 8 machines)
Return on Investment of an Additional Seat vs. PPFA (Based upon Total Solution Time, 100% Utilization)
PPFA Total Time Ratio Relative Cost of PPFA (MP) Relative Cost of PPFA (ME) Relative Cost of PPFA (ST)
100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0%
Relative Total Wall Clock Time Ratio
1
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Parallel

8.1 New Features
The Distributed Solution for ANSYS:

Add-on Module containing 4 solvers
Distributed Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (DPCG) New at 8.0!!!! Distributed Jacobi Conjugate Gradient (DJCG) New at 8.0!!!! Distributed Domain Solver (DDS) Algebraic Multi-Grid Solver (AMG)
Works with a variety operating systems*

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Parallel

8.1 New Features
Memory Management at 8.1

More efficient memory management in general Distributed PCG (DPCG) solver now supports the memory saving feature (MSAVE command) which uses an element-by-element approach for the stiffness matrix
For elements Solid92, Solid95, Solid186 or Solid187
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Parallel

8.1 New Features
Memory Management at 8.1

How much memory is required?
Machine #1 must contain its workload and the entire preconditioner Machines #2 through N only need their individual workload
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Parallel

8.1 New Features

For the Machine #1:
Machine(1) Memory(Gb) MDOF(Maximum) = -----------------------------------------(0.1 + C / Number of Machines)

For Machines #2 through N:
Machines(2 N) Memory(Gb) * N MDOF(Maximum) = ----------------------------------------C

Where: C = 1.0 for MSAVE,Off = 0.7 for Solid95 or Solid186 with MSAVE, ON = 0.5 for Solid92 or Solid187 with MSAVE, ON
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8.1 New Features

Example 1 for the Machine #1:
32 bit PCs with 1 Gb RAM Each 8 Machines in Total Solid92 or Solid187 models
1 (Gb) MDOF Machine #1 (Maximum) = -----------------(0.1 + 0.5 / 8) = 6.15 MDOF!!!!

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Parallel

8.1 New Features

Example 2 for the Machine #1:
32 bit PCs with 2.2 Gb RAM Available (with the /3 Gb switch) Total of 4 Machines in the Cluster MSAVE not possible 2.2 (Gb) MDOF Machine #1 (Maximum) = -----------------(0.1 + 1 / 4) = 6.3 MDOF!!!!

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ANSYS Release 8.1 New Feature Update

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ANSYS Release 8.1

New and Exiting Developments in:

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ANSYS Release 8.1

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8.1 New Features

ANSYS Release 8.1 Mechanical Products

New Features Update

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Release 8.1: New Features

Usability and Miscellaneous

8.1 New Features

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Contact Setup and Convergence

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Contact Technology Diagnostics

View contact status before solving using CNCHECK,POST

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Contact Technology Diagnostics

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Contact Technology Diagnostics

Results Variables: Track solution variables during SOLVE

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Contact Technology Diagnostics

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Contact Technology Diagnostics

Plot NR Residuals during convergence problems.

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Other Contact Enhancements

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Multiphysics Contact Enhancements

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Or by commands method: PLNSOL, GKS,XY PLESOL, GKS,XY

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Curve Fitting Enhancement

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Curve Fitting Enhancement