AutoPartsAsia | OCTOBER 2017 | 37to create a strong industry-academia
relationship so that it can be mutually
beneficial to each other over the long
term,” Somani said.
About the ANSYS investment in R
& D to improve safety, performance
and security of autonomous vehicles,
next-generation products and smart
devices,Somani said,“The rising
complexity in the products we use
today from Smartphones to the cars we
drive is mainly owing to the rise of the
Internet of Things (IoT). It seamlessly
brings the physical and digital worlds
together, resulting in the proliferation
of connected devices. Gartner Inc.
forecasts that the present 6.4 billion
connected things will reach 20.8 billion
by 2020.
Smart cars are taking the automotive
industry to the next level of innovation.
Automotive companies are racing to
develop advanced driver assistance
systems and eventually, autonomous
vehicles. IoT applications are making
their way into infotainment, vehicle
performance monitoring, and driver
safety assistance. For the autonomous
vehicles, simulation is important in
vehicle engineering because of the
safety requirement linked to each of
these ground breaking features and
vehicles. In addition, ANSYS provides
applications to help automakers
achieve fuel efficiency, limit emissions,
and develop high fidelity antenna
designs,” Somani said.
In the data-intensive aerospace
industry, sensors distributed throughout
the aircraft can help airlines collect and
analyze vast volumes of data, which
can then be used to understand the
status and performance of particular
systems and subsystems. IoT is also
accelerating post-flight analysis by
providing useful maintenance data
almost as soon as the plane completes
landing.
ANSYS’
Pervasive
Engineering
Simulation
software enables
the university
researchers to
explore power
estimation
strategies in
chip design
and to identify
defective chips
in the electronic
components
of vehicles.
Somani said
that in today’s rapidly expanding
industrial and consumer environment,
engineering simulation has become
more important than ever. Pervasive
engineering simulation is making
inroads into all aspects of engineering
practice from fully exploring a product’s
design to virtually testing thousands
of potential designs to monitoring and
optimizing industrial operations through
Digital Exploration, Digital Prototyping
and Digital Twins, respectively.
“Using our software, engineers now
simulate more complex physicalphenomena than before by using
structural, thermal, electromagnetic,
fluidic and controls simulation,
either in isolation or in coupled
multi-physics studies. The constant
feedback from the digital twin is
a boon in many ways: It can help
optimize the operation of a machine
or system; can predict adverse
conditions long before they are
used; test solutions to problems
before attempting physical repairs
and it can provide lots of data to
the improvement of subsequent
designs.”
The software will empower the
researchers to study the strength
and durability of parts created
using the additive manufacturing
process. Additive manufacturing
has been a real game-changer
for the manufacturing industry as
it has the potential to change the
way products are conceived and
designed. It enables engineers to
make parts whose geometries would
have made it impossible using
traditional manufacturing techniques
or previous practices. Companies can
also ensure massive gains in weight
saving and create designs that are
much more economical in the way they
use the raw material.
“Designers can take full advantage
of these capabilities by using ANSYS
Automated Topology Optimizerintegrated with its full suite of multi-
physics software. ANSYS Topology
Optimization helps to reduce
dramatically the engineering cost and
lead time required, while keeping up
the performance levels. Like other
topology optimizers, the ANSYS
solution only optimizes the shape of the
part with respect to structural loading.
However, since ANSYS technology
was designed from the ground up for
multi-physics, the potential exists in
the future for complete multi-physics
optimization,” Somani said.Rafiq Somani