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Chapter 1: ANSYS Release 9.0 Notes
Introduction to the ANSYS 9.0 Family of Products
The ANSYS 9.0 Family of Products continues ANSYS, Inc.'s commitment to provide the highest quality engineering
tools to help you with all of your design and analysis needs. This release of the products contains all of the cap-
abilities from previous releases, plus many new features to enhance your productivity. Some important areas
where you will find new capabilities include the following:
For information about changes to the ANSYS Workbench Products, see the ANSYS Workbench Products Release
Notes.
The ANSLIC_ADMIN utility has been redesigned for better ease-of-use and consistency across Windows and
UNIX platforms. For more information on the ANSLIC_ADMIN utility, see the ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Guide.
License borrowing is now available, allowing an ANSYS user at your site to use the product outside of your
company facility (so that an engineer can take a license home on a notebook computer, for example). To use license
borrowing, you must have license keys that specify borrowable licenses. A new borrowing utility, accessible from
the ANSLIC_ADMIN utility, allows you to select the license(s) you want to borrow, specify the amount of time
for which you want to borrow them, and to return borrowed licenses early. License borrowing is available only
on Windows platforms. For more information, see Section 5.6: Using License Borrowing in the ANSYS, Inc. Licensing
Guide.
The ANSYS Launcher now allows you to launch Distributed ANSYS or the distributed solvers in shared-memory
ANSYS. Using the Solver Setup tab, you can specify the type of MPI to use and either the number of processors
on a local machine or the hosts to use for multiple machines. For more information about setting up a distributed
environment, see the Distributed ANSYS Guide or the Installation and Configuration Guide for your platform.
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The ANSYS and Workbench product installations are now more consistent between products and across platforms.
On UNIX installations for both ANSYS and Workbench, the option to use the symbolic link is available earlier in
the installation, at the point where you specify your mount and installation directories. At Release 9.0, the sym-
bolic link option is on by default.
ANSYS now supports the 64-bit Fujitsu SPARC64 IV platform running Solaris 8 and the AMD Opteron 64-bit Linux
platform running SuSE SLES 8.
ANSYS now supports native 64-bit versions of Parasolid and SAT Connections and LS-DYNA (previous releases
used a 32-bit version).
1.1.2. Structural
ANSYS 9.0 includes the following new features and enhancements that expand your ability to perform structural
analyses.
1.1.2.1. Contact
The following new features expand your ability to perform structural analyses involving contact.
Four new commands are available to create and manage spot welds. Use the SWGEN command to create a new
spot weld set, the SWADD command to add more surfaces to an existing spot weld set, and SWLIST and SWDEL
to list and delete spot welds, respectively. For more information on the spot weld feature, see Chapter 8, Spot
Welds in the ANSYS Contact Technology Guide.
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contact elements CONTA171 through CONTA175. See Section 7.1: Modeling Solid-Solid and Shell-Shell Assemblies
in the ANSYS Contact Technology Guide for more information.
KEYOPT(2)
Contact Algorithm:
0 - Augmented Lagrange method (default)
1 - Pure penalty method
3 - Lagrange multiplier on contact normal and penalty on tangent (uses u-P formulation for normal contact,
non-u-P formulation for tangential contact)
4 - Lagrange multiplier method
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equilibrium achieved based on the mapped variables, you can continue solving using the new mesh. For more
information, see Chapter 6, Manual Rezoning in the ANSYS Advanced Analysis Techniques Guide.
The new element eliminates the problem of transitioning from solid to shell elements. The element allows for
modeling tapered shell sections without the need for midplane extraction. It performs well in simulating shell
structures with a wide range of thicknesses (from extremely thin to moderately thick). You can use it for both
flat plate and curved shell models. SOLSH190 is based directly on 3-D material laws--that is, no plane stress re-
duction is required--and automatically accounts for thickness change. Like other continuum elements, it supports
contact with exterior surfaces.
You can use preintegrated shell sections when linear elastic material behavior is acceptable. Compared to
standard shell usage with independent material and section definitions, preintegration requires minimal system
resources because numerical integration through the thickness of the shell is unnecessary. A series of new ANSYS
commands allows you to specify the particular component quantities necessary for defining a preintegrated
shell section. You can define each quantity of the preintegrated shell section data as temperature-dependent.
The preintegrated form of input allows you to import homogenous section-stiffness constants evaluated in
other analyses or by third-party, special-purpose software tools.
For more information, see Section 16.4: Using Preintegrated General Shell Sections in the ANSYS Structural Ana-
lysis Guide.
The generalized section form of input does not require cross section geometry data or material data independently.
For purposes of evaluating mass matrices, ANSYS assumes a unit area of cross section. This form of data is useful
for including an experimentally measured nonlinear response of a beam-like structural component, such as cross
section distortion not permitted when using normal beam sections.
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Nonlinear general beam sections also allow a nonlinear relationship of transverse shear forces to the corresponding
transverse shear strains. Often, the input of generalized beam sections consists of the results of a prior detailed
slice analysis (for example, a segment of pipe analyzed using generalized plane strain elements).
For more information, see Section 15.5: Using Nonlinear General Beam Sections in the ANSYS Structural Analysis
Guide.
Offsetting a substructure at a different location When creating a new superelement from an existing one
(via a SESYMM or SETRAN command), you can now specify an offset value to the node or element IDs in the FE
geometry record. After performing the use and expansion passes for all CMS superelements, the mode shape
display of the entire assembled structure shows the offset superelements in their transformed locations. For
more information, see the documentation for the RSTOFF and SEEXP commands.
CMS Wizard A wizard is available to guide you through the CMS generation, use, and expansion passes. The
wizard also provides support for organizing and managing the files generated by a CMS analysis. You can access
the wizard in the ANSYS GUI via the Solution (/SOLU) menu.
Components for which you want to specify acceleration loading must consist of elements only. The elements
you use cannot be part of more than one component, and elements that share nodes cannot exist in different
element components. You cannot apply the loading to an assembly of element components.
You can define linear translational acceleration for the following analyses types:
Static (ANTYPE,STATIC)
Harmonic (ANTYPE,HARMIC), full or mode superposition method
Transient (ANTYPE,TRANS), full or mode superposition method
Substructure (ANTYPE,SUBSTR)
The QR damped eigensolver now computes to complex eigenvectors of the quadratic eigenproblem. An inverse
iteration method calculates the complex eigenvectors in modal subspace. As a result, complex eigenvectors
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from the original system are recovered via the modal transformation. The MODOPT command's CPXMOD option
activates complex eigenmode extraction.
The QR damped eigensolver is also supported for partial solutions (PSOLVE), allowing a prestressed modal
analysis (PSTRES,ON) following a large deformation (NLGEOM,ON) static solution. Issuing a PSOLVE,EIGQRDA
command performs a QR damped eigensolution when an unsymmetrical stiffness matrix must be used in a
modal analysis. The new capability is useful in applications such as brake friction modeling through contact
elements (CONTA174) with the Newton-Raphson option set to unsymmetric (NROPT,UNSYM).
For more information, see the MODOPT command description, the PSOLVE command description, and Sec-
tion 3.13.7: QR Damped Method in the ANSYS Structural Analysis Guide.
1.1.2.4. Materials
The following materials enhancements are available in ANSYS 9.0:
1.1.3. Coupled-Field
ANSYS 9.0 includes the following enhancements that expand your ability to perform coupled-field analyses.
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A transient analysis using PLANE223, SOLID226, or SOLID227 can now account for both transient thermal and
transient electrical effects.
For more information, see Thermal-Electric Analysis in the ANSYS Coupled-Field Analysis Guide.
GMATRIX works with the following elements: SOLID5, PLANE67, LINK68, SOLID69, SOLID98, PLANE230, SOLID231,
and SOLID232.
For more information, see the GMATRIX command description in the ANSYS Commands Reference and the dis-
cussion in the Electric Field Analysis chapter of the ANSYS Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Analysis Guide.
Unlike FMAGSUM, which requires you to specify element components first and then flag them using FMAGBC,
EMFT requires only that you select the nodes of interest and issue the EMFT command. In addition, the under-
lying stress pass evaluation time during solution will be notably faster (up to three times faster).
This command is available only for static analyses using SOLID117, PLANE121, SOLID122, or SOLID123 elements.
For all other analysis, continue to use the FMAGSUM procedure.
For more information on using EMFT, see the description in the ANSYS Commands Reference, the discussion on
calculating magnetic force and torque for a static edge-based analysis in ANSYS Low-Frequency Electromagnetic
Analysis Guide, and the discussion on electromagnetic forces in an electrostatic field analysis, also in the ANSYS
Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Analysis Guide
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You can also convert and list scattering, admittance, or impedance parameters input by a Touchstone file. The
new PRSYZ command generates a new Touchstone file jobname_SYZ.snp for the network parameters.
Using the new PLSYZ command, you can also convert and plot scattering, admittance, or impedance parameters
as a function of frequency.
1.1.6. Thermal
ANSYS 9.0 includes the following new features and enhancements that expand your ability to perform thermal
analyses.
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specified symmetries. As part of this enhancement, you can reduce the number of surface elements by creating
a decimated mesh and generate new SURF251/SURF252 surface elements. See the discussion on Advanced Ra-
diosity in the ANSYS Thermal Analysis Guide for a detailed description of this procedure.
1.1.7. Solvers
ANSYS 9.0 includes the following new enhancements that improve solution procedures and features.
Distributed ANSYS' distributed memory architecture runs a solution over multiple processors on single or multiple
machines. It decomposes large problems into smaller domains, transfers the domains to each processor, solves
each domain, and creates a complete solution to the model. Because the solutions are running in parallel, the
whole-model solution takes much less time to solve. The memory required is also distributed over multiple systems
so that the peak memory required on any one machine is greatly reduced, making large-model solutions possible
on lower-end computers with limited memory.
Distributed ANSYS includes two sparse solvers (the sparse and the distributed sparse direct solvers), a PCG
solver, and a JCG solver. The sparse solver can still run in shared-memory parallel mode, and the distributed
sparse, PCG, or JCG solvers can run in distributed-memory parallel mode. Distributed ANSYS is available for linear
structural analyses, nonlinear structural analyses, and full transient analyses for single field structural and single
field thermal analysis. See the new Distributed ANSYS Guide to learn how to configure your system to run Distributed
ANSYS.
Distributed ANSYS is available on HP 64-bit platforms, SGI 64-bit platforms, and Intel Linux 32-bit and 64-bit
platforms. A beta version of Distributed ANSYS is available for most other ANSYS platforms, including 32-bit
Windows.
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1.1.8. Usability
ANSYS 9.0 includes the following new features and enhancements that increase the usability and the overall
functionality of the program.
Subroutines provided for your convenience in the Guide to ANSYS User Programmable Features and the Guide to
Interfacing with ANSYS have been updated to use alternative memory management routines and to reflect
changes in the results file format. All routines and functions documented in the Programmer's Manual Set have
been updated to reflect the current source code.
To see specific changes in a file, ANSYS recommends opening both the old and current files (using a text editor
that displays line numbers), then comparing the two to determine which lines have changed. You can copy the
updated files to your system by performing a custom installation of the ANSYS program.
More of the index tables are 64-bit, so they take two integer words in the file rather than one as in prior
results files. Some of the header records have also increased in size.
All of the pointers in the index tables are relative pointers; that is, they point to data relative to the current
file location and the physical pointer to the data is computed as relative pointer + offset.
The new access routines as documented in Section 2.3 have also been updated accordingly.
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SWGEN -- Creates a new spot weld set. The spot weld is defined between two surface and may be deformable
or rigid.
SWLIST -- Lists spot weld sets.
SXIN -- Defines an inertial load as an input variable for DesignXplorer VT (Variational Technology).
TBFIELD -- Defines values of field variables for the material data tables.
VEORIENT -- Specifies brick element orientation for volume mapped (hexahedron) meshing. This command
is especially useful for orienting the new SOLSH190 solid shell element.
BF -- Defines a nodal body force load. This command has a new option for specifying lumped circuits in a
high-frequency electromagnetic analysis.
CMSFILE -- Specifies a list of component mode synthesis (CMS) results files for plotting results on the assembly.
The command offers a new option allowing you to add any .rst file to the list of files to plot, even if the file
was not expanded via a CMS expansion pass.
CNCHECK -- This command performs several contact-related functions. A new option allows you to reset all
real constants and key options to their default values for the specified contact pairs.
EORIENT -- Reorients solid element normals. This command now supports the new SOLSH190 solid shell
element.
HFPORT -- Specifies input data for waveguide or transmission line ports or an incident plane wave. Plane
wave is a new port type option.
HROPT -- Specifies harmonic analysis options. The command offers a new Variational Technology solution
method using a perfect absorber.
MODOPT -- Specifies modal analysis options. A new command field specifies whether ANSYS should calculate
complex eigenmodes. The option extends the capabilities of the QR damped mode extraction method to
calculate damped system eigenmodes.
MP -- Defines a linear material property as a constant or a function of temperature. This command now offers
a label for a Seebeck coefficient to capture Seebeck-Peltier thermoelectric effects in a thermal-electric ana-
lysis.
MPDATA -- Defines property data to be associated with the temperature table. This command now offers a
label for a temperature dependent Seebeck coefficient to capture the Thomson thermoelectric effect in a
thermal-electric analysis.
MSAVE -- Sets the solver memory saving option for the PCG and DPCG solvers. The command's default be-
havior has changed. For element types SOLID92, SOLID95, SOLID186, and SOLID187 when small strains are
assumed (NLGEOM,OFF) and other required MSAVE conditions are met, the default is MSAVE,ON. The default
remains MSAVE,OFF for all other element types.
NLDIAG -- Specifies nonlinear diagnostics functionality. A new option allows you to track contact diagnostics
information during the solution. The information is written to a text file called Jobname.cnd.
PLHFFAR -- Displays electromagnetic far fields and far field parameters. 2-D TE and TM plane waves are now
available for the radar cross section and normalized radar cross section options. The RADIUS field has been
changed to RADZ. For 2-D TE and TM plane wave problems, RADZ is the thickness of the model in the z dir-
ection.
PRHFFAR -- Prints electromagnetic far fields and far field parameters. 2-D TE and TM plane waves are now
available for the radar cross section and normalized radar cross section options. The RADIUS field has been
changed to RADZ. For 2-D TE and TM plane wave problems, RADZ is the thickness of the model in the z dir-
ection.
PSOLVE -- Performs a partial solution. The command now supports partial solutions for the QR damped ei-
gensolver, allowing a prestressed modal analysis (PSTRES,ON) following a large deformation (NLGEOM,ON)
static solution. Issuing a PSOLVE,EIGQRDA command performs a QR damped eigensolution when the non-
symmetric stiffness matrix is required during a modal analysis.
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SECTYPE -- Associates section type information with a section ID number. The command has new options
for specifying nonlinear general beam sections (GENB) and preintegrated general shell sections (GENS).
SEEXP -- Sets options for a substructure expansion pass. The command has a new option allowing you to
specify whether or not to transform node or element locations.
SETRAN -- Creates a superelement from an existing superelement in a substructuring or CMS analysis. The
command now allows you to specify whether the nodal coordinate systems rotate with the superelement
or remain fixed in their original global orientations.
SPSWP -- Computes S-parameters over a frequency range and writes them to a file. This command offers a
new Variational Technology solution method using a perfect absorber.
SUCR -- Creates a surface. You can now define a cylindrical surface along a defined working plane in your
model. All surface-operation functionality is available for your cylinder, and the surface automatically extends
along the plane's Z-axis, to the opposite ends of your model.
SXGEOM -- Defines a geometry parameter created with ANSYS ParaMesh as a DesignXplorer VT (Variational
Technology) input variable. The command has new options to set the minimum and maximum of the input
variable, to set the reduction option, and to set the deviation order.
TB -- Activates a data table for nonlinear material properties or special element input. SDAMP is a new mater-
ial structural damping coefficient argument description for Label. Damping can be use to define frequency
dependent properties for use in a DesignXplorer VT (Variational Technology) harmonic analysis. ELAS is a
new material structural elastic coefficient argument description for Label. All elastic properties (for example,
EX, EY, EZ, NUXY, GXY) can be defined as frequency dependent for use in a DesignXplorer VT (Variational
Technology) harmonic analysis.
TBFT -- Performs material curve-fitting operations. You can now use temperature dependency to generate
data curves for any of the disciplines supported by curve-fitting operations.
SOLSH190 -- A 3-D solid shell element that has translational degrees of freedom and eight-node brick con-
nectivity, thus eliminating the problem of transitioning from solid to shell elements. The element performs
well in simulating shell structures with a wide range of thicknesses (from extremely thin to moderately thick).
You can use it for both flat plate and curved shell models.
FOLLW201 -- A one-node 3-D element that you can overlay onto an existing node with physical rotation de-
grees of freedom. The element specifies external forces and moments, following the deformation of the
structure. The element contributes follower load stiffness terms in a geometrically nonlinear analysis
(NLGEOM,ON).
SURF251/SURF252 -- Radiosity surface elements allow you to use symmetry to model radiation problems
and significantly reduce the problem size. You solve the radiation problem based on the full radiation surface
and solve the heat conduction problem based on the solid/fluid region with specified symmetry. You must
use the RSURF command to generate these elements. See the discussion on Advanced Radiosity in the ANSYS
Thermal Analysis Guide for a detailed description of this procedure.
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SHELL91 -- For this 8-layered shell element, ANSYS no longer supports the old (prior to ANSYS 5.2) format
for real constants. KEYOPT(2) is no longer recognized and is now undocumented; previously, it was necessary
to set KEYOPT(2) = 1 before providing real constant values in the old input format.
HF119 and HF120 -- These high-frequency elements now support a Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) calculation.
SURF151 / SURF153 -- If a single PLANE element lies beneath SURF151 or SURF153, you can automatically
set the element behavior (plane stress, axisymmetric, or plane stress with thickness [including TKPS if applic-
able]), to that of the underlying solid element by specifying KEYOPT(3) = 10. This option is valid only when
a single PLANE element lies beneath the SURF element. For example, if you apply a SURF151 or SURF153
element over a PLANE77 (thermal) element whose nodes are also used in the definition of a PLANE82
(structural) element, a warning appears and the load is not applied to the element.
SURF154 -- A new KEYOPT(2) setting applies pressure loads to the element faces according to the local co-
ordinate system, as follows: face 1 in the local X direction, face 2 in the local Y direction, and face 3 in the
local Z direction. (Faces 4 and 5 are unaffected.) When using KEYOPT(2) = 1, a local coordinate system must
be defined for the element.
CONTA178 -- KEYOPT(2) of the CONTA178 node-to-node contact element controls which contact algorithm
is used. The options for KEYOPT(2) have been reordered to be consistent with the surface-to-surface and
node-to-surface contact elements (CONTA171 to CONTA175). As a result, the new default contact algorithm
for this element is the augmented Lagrange method.
SHELL181 -- This shell element now supports preintegrated general sections, where the relationships of
generalized stresses to generalized strains are input directly. When the element is associated with the prein-
tegrated section type (SECTYPE,,GENS), thickness or material definitions are not required.
BEAM188 / BEAM189 -- These beam elements now support nonlinear general sections, where the relationships
of generalized stresses to generalized strains are input directly. When the beam element is associated with
a generalized beam (SECTYPE,,GENB) cross section type, the relationship of transverse shear force to the
transverse shear strain can be nonlinear elastic or plastic, an especially useful capability when flexible spot
welds are modeled.
PLANE223, SOLID226, and SOLID227 -- These coupled-field elements can now account for Seebeck, Peltier,
and Thomson thermoelectric effects in addition to Joule heating. They can now also account for both transient
thermal and transient electrical effects in a transient analysis.
1.2.1. Incompatibilities
The following incompatibilities are known to exist at ANSYS 9.0.
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1. Select Product Info from the menu at the top of the screen.
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