ANSYS Consultancy and Advice

CREA provide a comprehensive service for the execution of engineering analyses using the ANSYS Finite Element analysis suite. These services include Engineering Analysis, Model Building, Macro Writing, ANSYS Training and User Development and High Level Programming for ANSYS. Programming for ANSYS includes accessing the ANSYS data base.

CREA also provide FE modelling consultancy. (This is available for other systems in addition to ANSYS.)

CREA provide a macro programming service to write specific macros for our clients, to carry out specific analysis tasks. Macros can be written for industry specific stress checking, special loading, reporting, plotting, the list is endless. ANSYS macros can access the model data base, call operating system commands and other programs. Macros can be written to make modifications to simple models, thus enabling skeletal models to be built and then converted to complex models. One example would be the conversion of a structural model into a thermal model, with the macro adding convection and radiation links automatically.

Macros are commonly used in modelling to make model adjustments based on results of previous iterations. This allows complex situations to be modelled efficiently. Such macros are also used in design optimisation to control the design process.

Macros can also be written to format output, thus allowing pre-formatting before passing results to other programs such as word processors and spread sheets.

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ANSYS due to its flexibility and broad scope, is a particularly powerful engineering analysis tool. The capabilities stretch far beyond simply being able to determine force and stress. CREA provide training courses and tutorials which will help users of all abilities to unlock the power of the tool.

"Master Class" Training is designed around the type of analysis which the user is carrying out. They are designed in co-operation with the client to achieve a higher productivity from the program. The courses can be designed to review current work practices and to examine avenues for improved productivity, or to extend the capability of users to higher levels. They will include macro writing, parametric modelling, batch verses interactive execution, design optimisation (which is not just an optimising tool but is also an extremely useful means of controlling complex analyses), sub structuring, sub modelling (two different techniques in ANSYS), dynamic analysis, thermal analysis, combined analyses, and much more. If you want to solve a problem and you have access to ANSYS, CREA can design a programme to help you to use ANSYS to solve the problem. An ever more common quotation being made by experienced users of ANSYS is "if you can’t solve the problem with ANSYS, then you have a "problem".

ANSYS Administration looks at issues surrounding the administration of the ANSYS program installation and the user environment. Finite Element analysis is now becoming a common tool in design verification and for demonstration of design compliance, the analysis results are, therefore, becoming an essential part of the design documentation. This is especially true where FE has been used to show compliance with statutory safety regulations and safety case documentation. This course is designed to help system administrators, supervisors and engineering design managers to ensure the integrity of their installation, achieve a high level of data security and to write Quality Assurance procedures which will comply with ISO 9001 requirements.

CREA Consultants:- "Your" Engineering Analysis Department