PITTSBURGH, April 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --
/ Key Highlights
- Ansys solutions enable Van Oord
to quickly increase design load combinations and improve
calculation time for advanced wind turbine foundation
development
- Van Oord's engineers use Ansys
Cloud and Ansys Mechanical to optimize new product design, minimize
project risk, streamline supplier negotiations and slash product
development timelines
Van Oord is working with Ansys
(NASDAQ: ANSS) to speed environmental sustainability while
expediting new product designs for the offshore wind turbine
industry. Ansys is aiding Van Oord
engineers in their development of cutting-edge wind turbine
foundations, helping them increase product quality and deliver new
innovations to market faster than ever before.
Designing wind turbine foundations typically requires
Van Oord engineers to invest
considerable time developing numerous complex, dynamic analysis
finite element models. To accelerate and optimize the simulation
process, Van Oord's engineering
team worked with Ansys channel partner Infinite Simulation
Systems B.V. to harness Ansys®
Mechanical™ and Ansys® Cloud™ ,
which spurred design optimization, significantly
shortened product development timelines and boosted the
efficiency of next-gen offshore wind turbines.
Leveraging Mechanical and Ansys Cloud empowers Van Oord engineers to rapidly run 5x more design
iterations on Cloud to predict the performance of advanced wind
turbine foundations and enhance the fabrication processes while
reducing project risks and speeding supply chain negotiations. As a
result, simulations that required a week to run on multiple costly
workstations now run overnight, delivering a 7x improvement in time
savings, while greatly decreasing risk of production delay.
"Van Oord engineers employ Ansys
Cloud to spur new product innovation and solve the ever-growing
number of Mechanical models, which may feature over 5.5 million
degrees of freedom, 1.8 million nodes and 550,000 elements," said
Ralph Luiken, engineering
specialist at Van Oord.
"Historically, these massive models each required 150 hours to run,
however, with Ansys Cloud, our team has reduced run times to less
than 24 hours per simulation. This has substantially sped up
product development, enabled us to expediate our negotiations with
foundation steel suppliers and expedited delivery to our global
customers."
"Ansys is proud to join forces with Van
Oord engineers to fast-track their R&D efforts and help
achieve their sustainability goals by creating highly efficient
offshore wind turbine foundations that deliver renewable energy to
millions of households worldwide," said Shane Emswiler, senior vice president at Ansys.
"Ansys Cloud is built specifically for our flagship solvers,
powering push-button access to Microsoft Azure Cloud computing
resources. This significantly speeds up the wind turbine foundation
design and analysis process for Van
Oord engineers, equipping them to improve the production
efficiency of new products and elevate offshore wind energy to
greater heights."
On April 20th and
21st, Van Oord will
present "Hands-on Experience with Ansys Cloud Computing:
Accelerating Complex Engineering Simulations within the Offshore
Wind Industry" at Simulation World 2021. The presentation will be
available live and on demand. To register for Simworld, please
visit: https://www.simulationworld.com/.
/ About Ansys
If you've ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an airplane,
driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a
bridge or put on wearable technology, chances are you've used a
product where Ansys software played a critical role in its
creation. Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation.
Through our strategy of Pervasive Engineering Simulation, we help
the world's most innovative companies deliver radically better
products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest
portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help them solve
the most complex design challenges and create products limited only
by imagination. Founded in 1970, Ansys is headquartered south of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Visit www.ansys.com for more information.
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