ANSYS is a large and complex program with various capabilities. This book is intended to help the ANSYS user in getting started. The four chapters in this book introduce the reader to effective finite element problem solving by demonstrating the use of the comprehensive ANSYS FEM software in a series of step-by-step tutorials. The contents include ANSYS Basics, ANSYS Operations, Modeling and Meshing and Structural Analysis. This book provides its reader with an up-to-date information on the ANSYS software.
Table of Contents
- The first chapter deals with the finite elements method, mechanical APDL environment, running the ANSYS program, GUI, graphical picking, customizing the GUI, using the ANSYS session and command logs.
- The second chapter deals with getting started, loading, solution, postprocessing, general postprocessor, time-history postprocessor, selecting the components, creating graphs, annotation, animation, documenting the analysis, typical modeling difficulties, and the mechanical toolbar.
- An exclusive treatise on modeling and meshing is given in the third chapter, which includes model generation, planning the approach, coordinate systems, working planes, solid modeling, importing solid models, generating the mesh, revising the model, direct generation, and number control and element reordering.
- Problems on linear static structural analysis are presented in Chapter 4, in which the problems are categorized based on their dimensionality. The 2D problems are grouped into trusses, beams, planes and frames. The 3D problems are dealt under the headings solids and space.
