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University of Alberta Ansys Basic Tutorials

Two Dimensional Truss
Basic functions will be shown in detail to provide you with a general knowledge of how to use ANSYS. This tutorial should take approximately an hour and a half to complete.

Bicycle Space Frame
Intermediate ANSYS functions will be shown in detail to provide you with a more general understanding of how to use ANSYS. This tutorial should take approximately an hour and a half to complete.

Plane Stress Bracket
Boolean operations, plane stress and uniform pressure loading will be introduced in the creation and analysis of this 2-Dimensional object.

Solid Modeling
This tutorial will introduce techniques such as filleting, extrusion, copying and working plane orienation to create 3-Dimensional objects.

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University of Alberta Ansys Intermediate Tutorials

Effect of Self Weight
Incorporating the weight of an object into the finite element analysis is shown in this simple cantilever beam example.

Distributed Loading
The application of distributed loads and the use of element tables to extract data is expalined in this tutorial.

NonLinear Analysis
A large moment is applied to the end of a cantilever beam to explore Geometric Nonlinear behaviour (large deformations). There is also an associated tutorial for an explanation of the Graphical Solution Tracking (GST) plot.

Buckling
In this tutorial both the Eigenvalue and Nonlinear methods are used to solve a simple buckling problem.

NonLinear Materials
The purpose of the tutorial is to describe how to include material nonlinearities in an ANSYS model.

Dynamic Analysis
These tutorial explore the dynamic analyis capabilities of ANSYS. Modal, Harmonic, and Transient Analyses are shown in detail.

Thermal Examples
Analysis of a pure conduction, a mixed convection/conduction/insulated boundary condition example, and a transient heat conduction analysis.

Modelling Using Axisymmetry
Utilizing axisymmetry to model a 3-D structure in 2-D to reduce computational time.

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University of Alberta Ansys Advanced Tutorials

University of Alberta Ansys Advanced Tutorials

Springs and Joints
The creation of models with multiple elements types will be explored in this tutorial. Additionally, elements COMBIN7 and COMBIN14 will be explained as well as the use of parameters to store data.

Design Optimization
The use of Design Optimization in ANSYS is used to solve for unknown parameters of a beam.

Substructuring
The use of Substructuring in ANSYS is used to solve a simple problem.

Coupled Structural/Thermal Analysis
The use of ANSYS physics environments to solve a simple structural/thermal problem.

Using P-Elements
The stress distribution of a model is solved using p-elements and compared to h-elements.

Melting Using Element Death
Using element death to model a volume melting.

Contact Elements
Model of two beams coming into contact with each other.

ANSYS Parametric Design Language
Design a truss using parametric variables.

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University of Alabama Ansys Tutorials

by: DR Phan

A Stiffened Beam

Optimal Design of a Stiffened Beam

Fracture Mechanics Tutorial #1

Fracture Mechanics Tutorial #2

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