Article: Enter the wizards of contact and shape

At its recent users' conference and exhibition, Ansys Inc. of Canonsburg, Pa., debuted the latest versions of the Ansys FEA and DesignSpace programs. Among the new capabilities of Ansys are surface-to-surface contact, flexible-to-flexible contact, self-contacting surfaces, friction and frictionless surfaces, and topological optimization. The CAE operating environment of DesignSpace 4.0 is now parametrically associative to several solid-modeling CAD systems.

The new quadrilateral morphing surface mesher in Ansys 5.5 works with the smart-sizing feature to create meshes automatically for 2-D and 3-D surfaces. The sweep meshing feature provides the ability to generate a 3-D mesh within a ...

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