 Printer EmailThis book is very much the result of a collaboration between the three co-authors: Professors Nakasone and Yoshimoto of Tokyo University of Science, Japan and Professor Stolarski of Brunel University, United Kingdom. This collaboration started some 10 years ago and initially covered only research topics of interest to the authors. Exchange of academic staff and research students have taken place and archive papers have been published. However, being academic does not mean research only. The other important activity of any academic is to teach students on degree courses. Since the authors are involved in teaching students various aspects of finite engineering analyses using ANSYS it is only natural that the need for a textbook to aid students in solving problems with ANSYS has been identified. The ethos of the book wasworked out during a number of discussion meetings and aims to assist in learning the use of ANSYS through examples taken from engineering practice. It is hoped that the book will meet its primary aim and provide practical help to those who embark on the road leading to effective use of ANSYS in solving engineering problems. Throughout the book, when we state “ANSYS”, we are referring to the structural FEA capabilities of the various products available fromANSYS Inc. ANSYS is the original (and commonly used) name for the commercial products: ANSYSMechanical or ANSYS Multiphysics, both general-purpose finite element analysis (FEA) computeraided engineering (CAE) software tools developed by ANSYS, Inc. The company actually develops a complete range of CAE products, but is perhaps best known for the commercial products ANSYS Mechanical & ANSYS Multiphysics. For academic users, ANSYS Inc. provides several noncommercial versions of ANSYS Multiphysics such as ANSYS University Advanced and ANSYS University Research. ANSYS Mechanical, ANSYS Multiphysics and the noncommercial variants commonly used in academia are self-contained analysis tools incorporating pre-processing (geometry creation, meshing), solver and post-processing modules in a unified graphical user interface. These ANSYS Inc. products are general-purpose finite element modeling tools for numerically solving a wide variety of physics, such as static/dynamic structural analysis (both linear and nonlinear), heat transfer, and fluid problems, as well as acoustic and electromagnetic problems. For more information on ANSYS products please visit the website www.ansys.com. J. Nakasone
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