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ANSYS, Inc
ANSYS, Inc., formerly Swanson Analysis Systems,
Inc. (SASI), was founded in 1970 by Dr. John A. Swanson to develop, support,
and market the ANSYS program, a finite element analysis code widely
used in the computer-aided engineering field. The company, headquartered
at its current location in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, just outside of
Pittsburgh, expanded its software offerings in 1992 with the purchase of Compuflo,
Inc. The acquisition brought the FLOTRAN program, a computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) package, into the ANSYS product fold as a complement to the
ANSYS program. Employment has grown from a few employees to more than 170
today, half of which are engineers or technical specialists.
TA Associates, a large investor in growth
companies, managing a portfolio of investments in excess of $700 million, acquired
majority ownership of ANSYS, Inc. (then SASI) in 1994. As part of the
acquisition, Peter J. Smith, formerly a top executive with Digital Equipment Corporation,
was named chief executive officer of ANSYS, Inc. and charged with leading
the company through its next growth phase.
ANSYS software allows engineers to construct
computer models of structures, machine components or systems; apply operating
loads and other design criteria; and study physical responses, such
as stress levels, temperature distributions, pressure, etc. It permits
an evaluation of a design without having to build and destroy multiple prototypes
in testing. The ANSYS program has a variety of design analysis applications,
ranging from such everyday items as dishwashers, cookware, automobiles, running
shoes and beverage cans to such highly sophisticated systems as aircraft,
nuclear reactor containment buildings, bridges, farm machinery, X-ray equipment
and orbiting satellites.
The ANSYS program is available on workstations,
mainframes and supercomputers. The full program, as well
as a family of component products, is available on PCs. A network of distributors
provides licensing and customer support in the United States, Canada, Brazil,
Western Europe, Israel, India, East Asia and Australia. The company's current
customer base includes licenses for more than 4,100 commercial and 10,000
university units worldwide.
Dr. John Swanson, the company's founder and
chief technologist, has been instrumental in the development of advanced
computer methods for engineering analysis for more than 20 years. He is internationally
recognized as an innovator in computer software technology
and is a strong supporter of its usefulness and reliability.
ANSYS Family of Products
The ANSYS family of products consists of
:
Note: For academic versions of ANSYS, please contact us for details.
ANSYS Multiphysics™
Most of today's engineering software tools
can only simulate one specific discipline
at a time, for example, structural analysis.
Unlike such software, ANSYS Multiphysics
provides engineers with the ability to couple
the effects of different types of physical
phenomena and to study their impact on a
design, creating more realistic simulations.
This coupling of disciplines, in which one
is dependent on the behavior of another,
is considered a "multiphysics" analysis,
or coupled-field simulation. ANSYS, Inc.
is the leader in the development of software
for simulating multiphysics interactions.
ANSYS Mechanical ™
Contact analysis is probably one of the most
important features in realistically modeling
today's harsh product environments. Knowing,
before building physical prototypes, how
your designs will perform during manufacture,
assembly, or self-contact can save you a
tremendous amount of time and money and will
result in stronger designs being created
earlier in the product development process.
ANSYS Mechanical contains the industry's
most robust contact analysis capabilities,
including complex multi-body contact. Contact
capabilities are just a few of the many features
packed into the ANSYS Mechanical product
that you may not have realized. In fact,
this product contains many technological
breakthroughs. Did you know that ANSYS Mechanical
has the ability to couple thermal and structural
physics environments for multiphysical analyses?
ANSYS Mechanical also contains the most complete
line of solvers in the world.
ANSYS Structural ™
ANSYS Structural contains the industry's
most robust contact analysis capabilities.
It also contains the most complete line of
solvers in the world. ANSYS Structural uses
a full complement of nonlinear and linear
material elements, as well as a comprehensive
set of nonlinear and linear material laws.
ANSYS Structural is a crucial
part of the ANSYSŪ product line, performing
both linear and nonlinear analyses. There
is no better tool on the market today for
determining stresses, forces, displacements,
and contact pressure distributions.
ANSYS Professional ™
ANSYS Professional offers the ideal environment
for users who face intermediate analysis
projects but lack experience with the ANSYS
product line. A toolkit for structural and
thermal simulation, its extensible capabilities
enable you to deploy its full power at your
own pace. However, there is nothing intermediate
about the solution power packed in ANSYS Professional.
ANSYS FLOTRAN ™
Solving a variety of computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) problems, ANSYS FLOTRAN is
the very definition of flexible CFD software.
Manufacturing companies in industries ranging
from automotive, aerospace, and heavy machinery,
to computers and electronics use ANSYS FLOTRAN
to produce high-quality designs and reduce
costly prototyping cycles.
ANSYS LS-DYNA ™
ANSYS LS-DYNA, the premier software for the
simulation of explicit dynamic engineering
problems, is an application essential to
your tool set. Leveraging industry-leading
explicit dynamic technology from the Livermore
Software Technology Corporation (LSTC), ANSYS LS-DYNA
integrates best-in-class explicit dynamic
technology with the ANSYSŪ interface, enabling
robust pre- and postprocessing. These enable
the fast, effective solution of complicated
engineering problems involving large deformation,
nonlinear material behavior, and multibody
contact typically characterized by transient
impact. In addition, ANSYS LS-DYNA provides
advanced design optimization.
ANSYS Emag ™
ANSYS Emag is the price/performance leader
in the industry, containing extensive analysis
capabilities that include static, transient,
and harmonic low-frequency
electromagnetic tools. It can simulate electrostatics,
circuits, and current conduction, as well
as charged-particle tracing in both electrostatic
and magnetostatic fields. Automated calculations
provide force, torque, inductance, impedance,
capacitance, Joule losses, field leakage,
saturation, and electric and magnetic field
strengths.
In the latest release, considerable functionality
has been added to electrostatic and circuit-coupling
analyses. ANSYS Emag also works with other
ANSYSŪ products, such as ANSYS Mechanical
™ , to enable comprehensive simulation of
real-world phenomena.
ANSYS/ED ™
ANSYS/ED is the educational version of the
full ANSYS Multiphysics. Limited only by
the number of nodes, it is perfectly suitable
for students to learn and perform basic analyses.
