ANSYS Workbench CAE Design System for

Simulation-Driven Product Development

Dr. Jürgen Vogt

CADFEM GmbH

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 Workbench Origins

• In early 1990s, ANSYS perceived need for modern,

integrated architecture for engineering simulation

• DesignSpace was first application

– Mid 1990s
– Linear static stress analysis for design engineers
– Easy to use
– Highly automated

• Work continued on infrastructure to broaden its use

to more-advanced analyses
– Customers guided evolution
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 General Trends to anticipate

• Multi-engineering disciplines (physics) trends

• New hardware and Software technologies on the
market
• Multi-sites Companies (Design, manufacturing…): To
better share the information

ANSYS Workbench development started 10 years

ago to anticipate your future needs & constraints
• Tremendous development effort: 30 dedicated developers for
10 years
• ANSYS Workbench is a REALITY: our Customers Base of
10,000 companies already has ANSYS Workbench!

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 What is ANSYS Workbench?

CAD / PDM

ANSYS Workbench
Structural Mechanics - Fluid Dynamics - Heat Transfer - Electromagnetics

An adaptable multi-physics design and analysis system that

integrates and coordinates different simulation tasks

Robust Durability Optimization Customization Legacy Data

Design

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 Bidirectional connectivity to CAD

• ANSYS Workbench, the Platform to naturally communicate and

interact with other systems especially CAD systems:
• Bi-directional and Associative integrations with the following CAD
systems:
– Pro/ENGINEER
– Unigraphics
– SolidWorks
– Autodesk
– Mechanical Desktop
– One Space Designer
– TeamCenter Engineering
– Catia V5
– …
Open: Parameters & CAD Entities
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 Design Exploration

• Parameterized
simulations
– CAD parameters
– Physics parameters
• Investigate entire
operating range,
instead of a single
data point
• Understand the
effects of variability
• è OptiSLang

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 Legacy data

• ANSYS Workbench, the Platform to take into

account your Legacy and Imported data
– Meshes
– Solvers
– Post-processing (specific fatigue routines…)
– Mesh Morphing

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 What is ANSYS Workbench?

• Applications are hosted in tabs

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 What is ANSYS Workbench?

• Include all the relevant physic (FSI, coupled field)

• Reduce the up-front engineering time

FE Toolset for designer and analyst

• Integrate CAE into the product development process

Bi-directional CAD and PDM integration

• Repeatable processes (Wizards, Variant Studies, DX,….)

• Simulating complete assemblies è SDPD

è Large models

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 What is ANSYS Workbench?

Solve the real model è SDPD

316 Parts
120 Pre-tension bolts
1007 contact pairs

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 VOLVO CE

Process Automation

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 Simulation Process Description

ANSYS Workbench Infrastructure

Simulation

RearFrame
Wizard Load Cases
Files
DesignModeler &
Combinations
Geometry Tasks Definition
CAD Weld joints Named Selection
creation
Model
Load&BC Tasks
Stress Gauges
Locations

Automated Tasks
PF Mesh Tasks

User Input Contacts Tasks

Solution Tasks
Automated Tasks
Result Tasks

Simulation
Solve Report

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 Simulation Process Execution

• From CAD to DesignModeler

– To create welds if not existing
– To create Stress gauges locations

• All tasks are automated!

– To Specify Excel files locations for all load cases
– To verify load locations
– To selects how tasks are performed
• User interaction with step controls
• OR step by step
• OR All automated
– To solve
– To generate simulation reports
All Loads Cases, Boundary
Conditions and Load
Combinations are generated
automatically based on
Excel file
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 Positioning

• ANSYS Workbench is a CAE centric Platform OPEN to

the other Technologies (Data Management, CAD…)
• To be the Best in our Field and to work and interact
seamlessly with the Best in the other Fields

Let’s take the best technologies and combine

them together to make your overall process
better
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 Future Evolution of
ANSYS Portfolio

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 Long-Term Product Themes

• Multi-Disciplinary Simulation Environment

– Integration of all ANSYS applications & tools
• State-of-the-art, fully-integrated user experience
– Physics-aware, highly-automated meshing
– Unified geometry, pre, meshing, post
• Meshing highly automated and transparent for many
CAD ANSYS uses
System Plug-in
ANSYS
Mechanical
Workbench Solvers
Unified
Unified Unified Fluids Unified
Geometry
Pre Meshing Solvers Post
Modeler
Other
Solvers

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 Openness of ANSYS Workbench

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 ANSYS WB and external products

• CAD Connections (bidirectional: geometry, parameters

and attributes)

• CAE Connections:
– other solvers addressed:
Abaqus, MSC.Nastran, LS-DYNA, Samcef,…..
– Interface behavior similar for any solver: one single
setup for all, common post-processing tools

• Third party applications:

– MS products (Excel, Powerpoint, Word)
– In-house codes (pre-, post-processing, solvers)
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 ANSYS WB and external products

Common
model setup

Target solver
choice

Analysis settings adapted

to the target solver

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 ANSYS – Matlab Coupling

Co-Simulation of ANSYS and Matlab/Simulink

• Required if system cannot be linearized around operating point

• Requieres a transient analysis in ANSYS and Matlab/Simulink

– ANSYS computes x(t) for each time step
– Matlab computes F(t) for each time step
– CADFEM FSI coupling routines can be adjusted
System
F(t)
F(t) .. . x(t)
x(t)
m x + c x + kx = F(t)

Input Signal Output Signal

Control

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 Beyond MCAD

ECAD

Heat Transfer – Stress Analysis

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 ANSYS in Electronics
Thermal Management
Packages getting more & more compact
Package power dissipation increasing
Power density going up
Thermal power loss increasing

è Electrical functionality requiring cooler chip temp

è Need for good thermal design

Influence of adjacent devices

Influence of system and mounting conditions

Icechip – Component level thermal analysis

Iceboard – Board level thermal analysis
Icepak – System level thermal analysis + CFD

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 Thank You!

Questions?

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