DRD's Introduction to ANSYS Workbench Simulation Course

DRD's Introduction to ANSYS Workbench Simulation course is based on course materials of the two-day ANSYS Workbench Design Simulation Introduction course developed by ANSYS, Inc. with supplementary materials from DRD Technology. DRD conducts this course in two days by skipping most of the lecture portion of the course materials developed by ANSYS, Inc. This leaves more time for students to do the hands on workshops and cover additional topics through lecture. DRD provides supplementary course content in the form of additional workshops and some special topics presented in brief lectures. Our workshops are designed for customers to encounter the practical kinds of problems with the software that they will see when they return to their companies and do real analysis. Our supplementary materials in lecture format are designed to give students the background in basic finite element and engineering mechanics theory so that they understand what they are doing when they do analysis.

Students will probably not have time to complete all 9 of the ANSYS workshops and 12 of the DRD supplementary workshops. We encourage students to perform the workshops which will be most useful to their line of work.

Our approach to conducting this course is consistent with our philosophy that our customers learn the most from training when they are actually running the software. We, therefore, maximize the time students spend running the software, and we minimize the time that the instructor lectures.

The course objective is for students to gain proficiency with the Workbench Simulation software.

DRD provides students with copies of the two-day ANSYS Workbench Simulation Introduction course materials and a copy of DRD's supplementary materials. The course outline is provided below. DRD usually omits covering some of the course content as noted.

Detailed Descriptions of Workshops for this Course
DRD Supplemental Workshops

Course Agenda

Introduction to ANSYS Workbench Simulation

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Design Simulation Basics
Chapter 3 - General Preprocessing
Chapter 4 - Static Structural Analysis
Chapter 5 - Modal Analysis
Chapter 6 - Thermal Analysis
Chapter 7 - Linear Buckling Analysis (Sometimes omitted due to time constraints)
Chapter 8 - Shaper Finder (Sometimes omitted due to time constraints)
Chapter 9 - Results Postprocessing
Chapter 10 - CAD and Parameters

Supplementary Material from DRD Technology Provided to Attendees

DRD Chapter 1 - Overview of Workbench
DRD Chapter 2 - General Overview of FEA
DRD Chapter 3 - Solutions to Static Structural Models
DRD Chapter 4 - Evaluation of Analysis Results
DRD Chapter 5 - Nonlinear Analysis
DRD Chapter 6 - Modeling with Shell Finite Elements