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Ansys + Downing 53 Read the full case study / Challenges Downing had to provide wellhead workers with a solution that saves time while being practical and simple to use. / Engineering Solution • Used Ansys Mechanical to perform a highly nonlinear mechanical simulation involving bolt pretension, contact and nonlinear gasket materials. The resulting model had two million nodes and up to four load cases. • Ran the mechanical simulations on Ansys Cloud enlisting 96 compute cores with distributed parallel processing. / Benefits • For each design case, Ansys Cloud reduced Ansys Mechanical simulation time from 15-20 hours on a local workstation to only 2-4 hours. • Wellhead operators reported saving 8 hours on installation time using the Quick Connect system. • The Quick Connect system enabled Downing to win additional work where this type of system is a requirement. "We've been using Ansys Cloud for five months now and it's been a gamechanger for us from a productivity standpoint, especially because we can submit multiple Ansys Mechanical jobs covering different scenarios and run them overnight. Ansys Cloud also eliminates any scheduling or memory capacity concerns regarding our own computing system. It's been a fantastic product." Tim Marvel Vice President / Business Development and Technology Downing, A Subsidiary of SEF Energy Speed up to 10X Click to return Agenda