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Aircraft Fuselage Optimization
Product = GENESIS This custom-made aerospace case study demonstrates what can be done with any assembly, part, or structure of an aircraft. This is a fuselage section on which sizing (thickness changes) and topology (shape changes) were used to optimize the structure for a couple of very simple load cases; cabin pressure…
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Topology Optimization for a Housing Reinforcement to Improve Manufacturability
Product = GENESIS Introduction to Housing Structures Housing structures are used to contain and protect mechanical machinery or structural components, such as transmission boxes. They prevent the interior mechanism from being affected by outside debris and may also include integrated fittings or brackets to secure internal…
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Quick Domains for Shape Optimization – Making Domain Creation Automatic
Product = Design Studio With the new version of Design Studio, v23, a new way of creating domains automatically for shape optimization called Quick Domains has been introduced. Shape optimization takes an existing structure and pushes the shape of it into the most efficient solution for your objectives and constraints. One…
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Topography Optimization to Increase Stiffness
Product = GTAM/GSAM Topography optimization is a special form of shape optimization which generates bead patterns or shape profiles on given design surfaces. In GSAM, the surface could come from a shell body or solid body. With topography optimization, the stiffness, frequency, or other performance targets could be…
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Topology Optimization for Rib Design to Improve Stiffness and/or Mass
Product = GENESIS Introduction to Ribbed Structures Adding ribs to stiffen structures or to reduce their mass is quite common. The question is where to locate the ribs and their dimensions. In this blog we will show an example of how to use topology optimization to design ribs using the GENESIS software. Example of Using…
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Creating Custom Results using Design Studio’s Synthetic Results
Product = Design Studio Design Studio’s Synthetic Results give the user the ability to create custom results to view in Post. Synthetic Results can be mathematical combinations of results, min/max of multiple results, factors applied to results, field values from cards created by optimization, etc.. This gives the user…
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Options for Your Viewport
Product = Design Studio Design Studio for Genesis® provides several options to change how things are displayed in the viewport window. You can change the size of arrows, set the limit angle for defining feature lines and limit the number of labels that appear. Perhaps most interesting is the ability to show an exploded…
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Topology Optimization for Thermal-Mechanical Coupled Systems
Product = GTAM/GSAM Genesis® for ANSYS® Mechanical (GSAM/GTAM) adds the power and versatility of Genesis® structural optimization capability to the ANSYS environment. In this article, we would like to show how to perform topology optimization for thermal-mechanical coupled systems. Topology optimization is to find the…
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Using Lua Scripts with Design Studio for Automatically Creating PowerPoint Slides and Excel Spreadsheets Containing GENESIS Optimization Results
Product = Design Studio Lua scripts can be used with Design Studio to automate tedious tasks. One such script gives the user the ability to create slides of parts with their masses and thicknesses rapidly. This can be applied to shell parts being optimized by sizing for thickness. Within a couple of seconds, all the parts…
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Design of a Lattice Structure using Topometry Optimization and the GENESIS Software
Product = GENESIS Lattice structures can be printed today using 3D printers. One question that arises is how to find the optimal dimensions of the lattice members. In this blog we want to address that question. As discussed in one of our previous blogs, “Fast Structural Analysis of Lattice Structures using GENESIS”, with…
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Make a Catalog of Your Views
Product = Design Studio Being able to easily get the right views of a model is very important to understanding the insights it can provide. Design Studio for Genesis® provides quick access to the six standard axis views and eight isometric views via buttons in the viewport toolbar. You can change the view coordinate system…
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Freeform Optimization to Reduce Stress
Product = GTAM/GSAM Genesis® for Ansys® Mechanical (GSAM/GTAM) adds the power and versatility of Genesis® structural optimization capability to the ANSYS environment. In this article, we would like to show how to perform freeform optimization to reduce stress. Freeform optimization is a special type of shape optimization.…
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Topology Optimization with Enforced Features
Product = GENESIS Background of Topology Optimization in GENESIS Topology optimization capabilities in the GENESIS software allow its users to improve practically any type of structures as most of finite element responses available in analysis (statics, normal modes, frequency response, heat transfer, buckling, acoustics,…
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Shape Optimization of a Steel Bracket
Product = GENESIS In this blog we illustrate the design of a simple stamped steel bracket optimized for minimum mass and minimum stress using shape optimization with GENESIS structural optimization software and its gui Design Studio. The fea model is made with shell elements. GENESIS’s shape optimization can also be…
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Engineers, Assemble!
Product = Design Studio Design Studio for Genesis® makes it easy to organize your model by letting you create collections of groups/properties called assemblies. Assemblies are non-exclusive – that is, groups may be included in more than one assembly. There are a number of built-in assemblies, such as all PSHELL or all…
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Topology Design of a Compliant Mechanism
Product = GTAM/GSAM Genesis® for Ansys® Mechanical (GSAM/GTAM) adds the power and versatility of Genesis® structural optimization capability to the ANSYS environment. Engineers can enlist the rich breadth of Genesis® optimizations, performing optimization data definition, solving, and post-processing all within the Ansys…
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Frequency Response Optimization – Total Control
Product = GENESIS Introduction Frequency response optimization capabilities in the GENESIS software allow its users to improve practically any type of results that come from structural frequency response analysis. Examples of responses that come from structural frequency response analysis are: displacements, velocities,…
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Enhance Model Reports with Tags
Product = Design Studio Design Studio for Genesis® makes it easy to save pictures of the model shown in the viewport. This is particularly convenient to report design optimization results shown in post-processing. Design Studio also has the capability to add tags (also known as annotations or callouts) to enhance model…
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Topology Optimization for Thermal with Dynamically Updated Convection Boundary Condition
Product = GTAM/GSAM Genesis® for Ansys® Mechanical (GSAM/GTAM) adds the power and versatility of Genesis® structural optimization capability to the ANSYS environment. Engineers can enlist the rich breadth of Genesis® optimizations, performing optimization data definition, solving, and post-processing all within the Ansys…
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Relative Displacements
Product = Design Studio In structural finite element analysis, displacements are always relative to some reference point. If the structure is constrained, as is typical, that reference point can be any fixed point on the ground. When visualizing displacements, the deformation shows the displacement values as output from…
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Topology Optimization for Designing Reinforcing Ribs
Product = GTAM/GSAM Genesis® for Ansys® Mechanical (GSAM/GTAM) adds the power and versatility of Genesis® structural optimization capability to the ANSYS environment. Engineers can enlist the rich breadth of Genesis® optimizations, performing optimization data definition, solving, and post-processing all within the Ansys…
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Structural Responses – One of the Key Ingredients for Defining Structural Optimization Problems
Product = GENESIS Introduction Structural optimization is used to efficiently improve structures. Its usage requires the selection of two sets of quantities: Design variables and Responses. Design variables correspond to parameters that describe or define the structure, while responses correspond to quantities used to…
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Fast Structural Analysis of Lattice Structures using GENESIS
Product = GENESIS The current availability of Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques and 3D printers has made it possible to print lattice structures. This type of structure has many benefits that include: good strength to weight ratio, excellent shock absorption and impact protection behavior, high surface area which can…
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The Right Frame of Reference
Product = Design Studio Being able to easily get the right views of a model is very important to understanding the insights it can provide. Design Studio for Genesis® uses common convection for coordinates, so the standard view buttons in the Viewport often provide the views you want. Sometimes a model may come from a…
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Setup ESLDYNA Optimization using Design Studio and ESLDYNA Plugin
Product = ESLDYNA ESLDYNA is an implementation of the ESL methodology to perform optimization based on an LS-DYNA analysis. The optimization process is based on the Equivalent Static Load (ESL) method and uses an iterative process that utilizes the non-linear structural analysis results from LS-DYNA and the linear…