Brochures

OVERVIEW In 2024 R1, the Structures Product Line delivers new features and capabilities enabling users to efficiently solve larger, more complex models. To provide a consistent user experience across Ansys products, new dark and light themes are now available in Ansys Mechanical. Mechanical can also be accessed in a standalone version offering easier access for scripting and single model analyses. Seamlessly transfer data between Ansys LS-DYNA analyses with new multi-system linking methods. Ansys Sherlock users can automate its capabilities with the release of PySherlock. This release also contains a variety of cross-product enhancements to streamline and support end-to-end noise, vibration, and harshness simulations, including a dedicated meshing workflow, general performance improvements, and the expansion of Mechanical Enterprise to include capabilities of Ansys Sound Pro and Ansys LS-DYNA acoustics solvers. RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS Ansys Mechanical • Accessing and interacting with Mechanical is more flexible and efficient than ever, with new dark and light themes maintaining consistent user experience across Ansys products, as well as a standalone version of Mechanical offering easier access for scripting and single-model analyses. • Improved noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) simulations with major enhancements for streamlining vibro-acoustic workflows, including: o Dedicated meshing workflows for BEM, internal, and external FEM acoustics simulations reduce total meshing time of complex geometries by 12X by streamlining the meshing process. o FEM acoustics simulations can see performance improvements ranging from 5-50X, in terms of memory, solve time, and disk space, with frequency-based acoustics adaptivity, a new load mapping architecture, and order-based harmonic analysis for frequency spacing. o To fully support end-to-end NVH workflows, all capabilities of Ansys Sound Pro and Ansys LS-DYNA acoustics solvers are now included in Mechanical Enterprise. • A 1 billion degree of freedom (DOF) low-pressure gas turbine (LPT) assembly model was solved using the latest enhancements in the Sparse Direct Solver, demonstrating its ability to handle extremely large, complex models. • Accurately and efficiently perform Body-in-White (BiW) durability analyses with workflow improvements to reduce spotweld generation time by 6X, enhancements to model adhesive bonding between panels, and expanded material damage modeling to include ductile damage. • Efficiently transfer data, including deformed geometry positions and stress state, between multiple Ansys LS-DYNA analyses with new multi-system analysis linking methods, one for sharing model data and another where results are used for initialization of the following simulation. • Increased flexibility when post processing Ansys Motion results with an extension to the Function Expression object that allows for the use of Python syntax and import of external Python files and packages. Structures Product Line 2024 R1 Update

• Cover