EDEM for ANSYS V1

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EDEM for ANSYS has been developed specifically for engineers designing heavy equipment such as truck bodies, diggers, grab buckets and excavators that are intended to handle bulk materials like coal, ores, rocks, and soils.

EDEM for ANSYS enables users to include realistic bulk material loads as standard in their structural design analysis. It provides engineers with a detailed understanding of the impact materials have on their designs, leading to greater insight into equipment performance and enabling more design optimization improvements to be made. By removing the reliance on hand-calculation and assumption to determine equipment loading, engineers using EDEM for ANSYS are also able to reduce the frequency and cost of expensive physical prototyping.

EDEM for ANSYS is an easy to use tool fully streamlined and integrated with ANSYS® Workbench™.

It comprises two parts:

• An EDEM analysis system for use in the ANSYS® Workbench™ environment. From here, the forces acting on the equipment from the bulk material can be linked to other ANSYS® analysis systems, such as Static or Transient Structural, to be used as an input boundary condition for an FEA simulation
• An EDEM for ANSYS user interface where engineers can set-up and run their bulk material simulations. Users get access to a library of thousands of materials models (the GEMM Database) representing ores, soils, rocks, gravels etc. and select the best match for their application

To get started with EDEM for ANSYS, take our free eLearning video course .

EDEM for ANSYS is compatible with ANSYS versions 18.0, 18.1, 18.2, 19.0 and 19.1.

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