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ANSYS state-of-the-art technology empowers you to simulate every aspect of your product, from straightforward to complex. Robust Nonlinear Analysis The Right Material Model To understand and accurately characterize material behavior, ANSYS provides a vast library of mathematical material models that aid in simulating materials. You can apply these constitutive models to metal, rubber, plastic, glass, foam, concrete, biotissue and special alloys. ANSYS structural tools include model capabilities for moisture diffusion as well as initial strain and stress states. Interaction between Parts Our robust, complete set of contact capabilities includes surface–surface, line–surface and line– line contact for flexible and rigid bodies. Contact behavior can account for constant or orthotropic friction as well as sliding behavior; these are applicable for structural, thermal and multi- disciplinary contact applications. Fast, automatic contact detection backed by powerful algorithms leads to fast and accurate solving of models involving contacts. Robust Solvers for Complex Problems ANSYS structural mechanics solutions offer a large library of out-of-the box equation solvers. The compilation contains the sparse direct solver, preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) iterative solver, Jacobi conjugate gradient (JCG) solution and others. You can be confident of a robust solution, since ANSYS uses default settings for both elements and solver. You can override the default options; however, our many years of fine-tuning have resulted in an efficient solution to your most complex problems — without having to manually set required controls and options. Creating Your Own Elements or Materials Very advanced applications and research activities require user-defined materials or a new element formation. With ANSYS tools, you can extend native capabilities through user elements, user materials or user routines to create your own models, such as friction. Assemblies require modeling contact between parts as well as specific interfaces, such as gaskets. "We use ANSYS tools to calculate stress, stiffness, deformation and natural frequencies of critical vehicle components and subsystems. An important capability is advanced analysis of a variety of nonlinear materials." Vladimir Pokras Analysis and Simulation Manager Liebherr Mining Equipment Co. "Contact behavior strongly impacts lip seal performance. ANSYS provides a powerful tool for gaining insight into optimizing seal design and improving product quality and reliability." Zhichao Wang Manager, Analytical Services Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc. Large deformations and contact analysis of a rubber seal. ANSYS material models include elasticity as well as visco-elasticity, plasticity, viscoplasticity, cast- iron plasticity, creep, hyperelasticity, gaskets and anisotropy. 4 https://www.randsim.com/structures

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