Ansys Autodyn
Short Duration, Severe Loading Simulations

Simulate the response of materials to events ranging from short duration severe mechanical loadings, high pressures and even explosions. Ansys Autodyn provides advanced solution methods without compromising ease of use.

Overview

Expertly Handle Your Simulations of Complex Material Response

Mechanical enables you to solve complex structural engineering problems and make better, faster design decisions. With the finite element analysis (FEA) solvers available in the suite, you can customize and automate solutions for your structural mechanics problems and parameterize them to analyze multiple design scenarios. Ansys Mechanical is a dynamic tool that has a complete range of analysis tools.

Features

Quick Specs

By Integrating within Ansys Workbench and its own native-user interface, Ansys Autodyn has long led the industry in ease of use, enabling you to produce accurate results with the least amount of time and effort.

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Easy CAD Import

Engineering Data

Remapping from 1D to 2D to 3D

Coupled Field Technology

Blast Analysis

Post-Processing Tools

Solver domain dezone and extend

Crack & Fracture Modeling

Shock waves

Hypervelocity Impact

Hydrocode

Fatigue Life Analysis

Capabilities

A Range of Solver Schemes Integrated into One Product

The smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) solver completes the picture to provide everything needed for explicit analysis. Ansys Autodyn lets you select from different solver technologies so the most effective solver can be used for a given part of the model. The Lagrangian FE solvers enable fast and efficient solutions when looking at structural components subjected to shock loading and large deformations. Two Euler solver formulations give you the ability to model high speed fluid flow, as well as an alternative way to simulate extreme plastic flow of solid materials.

Capabilities

Key Features

Ansys Autodyn offers a way to simulate your experiment set up so you can reduce and simplify physical testing

Solver Technology
Solver Coupling
Material Data
Integration into Workbench

Solver Technology

The smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) solver completes the picture to provide everything needed for explicit analysis.

Ansys Autodyn lets you select from different solver technologies so the most effective solver can be used for a given part of the model. The Lagrangian FE solvers enable fast and efficient solutions when looking at structural components subjected to shock loading and large deformations. Two Euler solver formulations give you the ability to model high speed fluid flow, as well as an alternative way to simulate extreme plastic flow of solid materials.

Solver Coupling

Autodyn’s interaction logic enables automatic communication between the various solvers for coupling of fluid-solid interaction (FSI) models for blast, erosion, impact and multiscale simulations of high-speed events.

Lagrange-Lagrange, SPH-Lagrange and Euler-Lagrange interactions can all be created within the model in a simple and intuitive manner. This allows fluid structure interactions to be simulated with ease.

Material Data

The response of materials to dynamic high strain rate loading can be complex, and the necessary material data is hard to come by.

To help you with this, Autodyn’s material library contains over 150 prepopulated material models covering most common engineering alloys, brittle and granular materials, orthotropic materials and energetic and explosive compounds.

This combination of models gives you the ability to simulate various material phenomena such as nonlinear pressure response, strain hardening, strain rate hardening, thermal softening, compaction of porous materials, orthotropic behavior, crushing damage, chemical energy deposition, tensile failure and phase changes.

Integration into Workbench

Ansys Autodyn is integrated into Ansys Workbench, taking advantage of CAD import, geometry clean up, model set up, material definition and interoperability with other Ansys analysis systems.