Multibody Dynamics Simulation Software
Ansys Motion is a unified simulation platform for swift and precise analyses of both rigid and flexible bodies, making it ideal for multibody dynamic system design. It covers system motion, stress-safety, heat transfer, vibration, and fatigue. Simulations can be conducted through a familiar structural analysis interface, ensuring model reusability and significant time savings. Notable features include Ansys Motion Links for tracked vehicles and FE Dynamics tools. Built on flexible multibody dynamics, it accelerates time-to-market by analyzing system motion, stress safety, vibration, and fatigue across various industrial applications during the design phase. The integrated GUI provides a robust modeling environment for standalone or simultaneous analysis of components and systems, enhancing design and analysis capabilities.
- Multibody Dynamics Analysis
- Car Toolkit
- Links Toolkit
- Drivetrain Toolkit
- EasyFlex Toolkit
- Linear Analysis
- FE Dynamics
- API Development
- Modal Flex
- MATLAB Interface
- SMP and MPP
- Parametric Gear Creation
- Libraries of Bearings
Check out the key features of Ansys Motion
Solver
Ansys Motion solver excels in accelerating simulations for high-degree-of-freedom systems, ensuring optimal speed. Harness the power of shared memory parallel processing (SMP) and massive parallel processing (MPP) environments to further enhance simulation speed, delivering efficient and high-performance results.
Pre-post Processor
Ansys Motion's pre-processor offers an efficient modeling setup for both components and systems. Components can be represented as a unified entity comprising a part file and a mesh file. These files are managed separately, enabling data reusability across different models. The post-processor facilitates swift animation of complex geometries.
MBD Pro
Ansys Motion includes MBD Pro, examining rigid body systems. Equations of motion use a parametric generalized coordinate system. Rigid bodies connect through joints, constraints, bushings, contacts, and user-defined expressions. It supports smooth surface-to-surface contact, represented via triangular patches or NURBS surfaces.
FE Dynamics
Conduct dynamic analysis on a hybrid system of rigid and flexible bodies using a solver designed for Multibody Dynamics (MBD) and finite element (FE) analysis. Establish distinctive connections between rigid and flexible bodies and employ a numerically stable implicit integration method for exceptional precision and reliability throughout the analysis.
Modal Flex
Utilize modal flexible bodies for minimal contact or mildly varying force elements in Ansys Motion. Mode shapes, extracted from Ansys Mechanical, efficiently represent deformations. With reduced modal coordinates, computational time significantly decreases. Seamless integration with other bodies is effortless by switching between modal and full nodal flexible bodies.
Linear Analysis
Linear analysis is employed to compute eigenvalues and eigenvectors of FE bodies, EasyFlex bodies, or systems. This method enables the simulation of natural frequencies and modes. When conducting eigenvalue analysis for the body, employing the static correction mode ensures a more precise solution for a modal flexible body.
Fatigue calculation
Ansys Motion revolutionizes fatigue analysis by integrating the two traditional processes (examination of load history and stresses) into one system. The solver concurrently generates load history and stress history, streamlining the process, additionally, the post-processor allows for direct visualization of fatigue life.
MATLAB Interface
The Ansys Motion base package incorporates a MATLAB/Simulink interface enabling co-simulation of MATLAB control models with Ansys Motion mechanical models. To execute this co-simulation, it's necessary to define the system input/output within the Ansys Motion model and the Simulink file in MATLAB.
Functional Mockup Interface - FMI
The FMI functionality enables simultaneous simulation of an Ansys Motion mechanical model with other FMI-supported simulation tools. Defining system input/output within the Ansys Motion model is required. Ansys Motion's FMI operates exclusively as a slave simulator.
Drivetrain Toolkit
The Drivetrain toolkit assesses the noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) features of drivetrain systems across changing driving scenarios. This feature handles analyses from conceptual design to intricate production models. It generates waterfall color maps and order tracking data for comparison between simulation and reality.
Links Toolkit for Chains and Belts
Ansys Motion Links analyzes path (wound) and segment (winding) bodies, generating a chain assembly. Subsystems, parts, or mesh files create diverse irregular chains. A unified window manages contact parameters. Various force, joint, or contact entities link segments, streamlining the process.
Links Toolkit for Tracks
Predefined geometries enable parametric studies in Ansys Motion Links. Streamlined track assembly eliminates the manual selection of path bodies, automatically identifying and utilizing them. Contact surfaces are auto-defined within these geometries, sparing explicit surface definition.
Car Toolkit
Specialized template and subsystem modeling tools facilitate the construction of chassis, suspension, steering, and wheels for predefined analysis scenarios. Utilizing symmetric modeling features and template-driven workflows simplifies the examination of kinematics and compliance (K&C) along with ride and handling (R&H) scenarios.
Easyflex Toolkit
EasyFlex avoids the need for meshing before structural analysis, unlike traditional finite element analysis, this approach extends modeling flexibility to users unfamiliar with meshing. The toolkit allows swift calculation of strain and stress in machine parts with diverse shapes within minutes, facilitating efficient analysis.
CAD Translators
Ansys Motion pre-processor, built on the ACIS kernel, directly reads .sat and .sab files. For other CAD formats, efficient translation is facilitated through compatible CAD translators, ensuring seamless integration with diverse design data.
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