Saving Costs and Time Using Classical ANSYS Mechanical and ANSYS Workbench

ALLCAD GmbH, Germany

Overview

As an ambitious engineering company, ALLCAD provides services in CAx technologies and projecting of machine and plant manufacturing.
For its customers in mechanical and power engineering as well as automotive and plant construction, ALLCAD supplies pre-coordination, development, validation, design and documentation of individual parts as well as full plant systems.
Companies use ALLCAD for its up-to-date knowledge, efficiency and consultant capabilities for the customer’s benefit.

Testimonial

"Using the classical ANSYS Mechanical Software in interaction with ANSYS Workbench facilitates work on large 3D models for our customers. The ANSYS Workbench technology is an improvement for importing, further processing and pre-validating complex 3D geometries from other CAD systems. Transferring prepared models into classical ANSYS Software allows us to combine different element types along with conventional ANSYS techniques. So large 3D structures can be extended to adequate assemblies. To achieve fast turnaround and cost efficiency for our customers, it is necessary to utilize the full spectrum of FEA in structural mechanics and dynamics as well as thermal analysis. Therefore our work is validated by our customers' satisfaction.”

Challenge

Modal analysis of full assembled gas turbines for power engineering:

• Represent a complex casing model and a sufficient stiffness and mass model of the rotor
• Search for best solution choosing appropriate model and boundary conditions

Solution

Using ANSYS Workbench and ANSYS in combination:

• Importing complex models into ANSYS Workbench for preparing the geometry and assembling
• Getting a high robust mesh of large structures
• Export / Switch to ANSYS to build up significant and adequate FE assemblies with added simplified models

Benefits

By utilization of the advantages of a strong 3D tool and robust FE system we and our customers can save time and costs by:

• Easy-to-use CAD technologies
• Stable interfaces for interacting and for external programs
• Sophisticated element techniques
• Standardization of assembling via macros
• Quick post-processing for providing our customers with reliable results

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