Features Include:

Superior CAD Interface and Robust Meshing
Support all CAD systems, surface, tet, hex, hexdominant

Comprehensive Element Technology
Beams, shells, solids, gasket, pretension, 3-D axisym

Advanced Post-Processing
Expressions, custom results, reports, powerpoint export

ANSYS Workbench Platform
Easy to learn and use, re-learnability, knowledge capture

Auto Contact Detection for Assemblies
Fast contact detection saves

Extensive Library of Material Models
Elasticity, plasticity, hyperelastic, porous media and more

Advanced Solver Capabilities
Numerical methods that fit any model size, any model complexity and any hardware

Solver Customization and Scripting
Unique scripting language (APDL) and user defined routines for materials, elements, etc.
 

Structural mechanics solutions from ANSYS offer best-in-class simulation tools for product design and optimization that increase productivity, minimize physical prototyping and help deliver better and innovative products in less time. These solutions tackle real-world analysis problems by making product development less costly and more reliable.

Liebherr engineers rely on ANSYS structural simulation technology to develop giant diesel electric trucks designed to withstand harsh mining operations while providing maximum load capacity. The key to this simulation-based design approach is the advanced analysis performed with ANSYS Mechanical software in calculating the stress, stiffness, deformation and natural frequencies of critical vehicle components and subsystems - especially in cases in which their flexibility and nonlinear behavior must be accurately characterized. Otherwise, modeling all parts as rigid members would lack sufficient accuracy for predicting real-world vehicle behavior in multibody virtual models.