Utilização do ansys como ferramenta didática para auxiliar o aprendizado prático no ensino de disciplinas na engenharia mecânica

Abstract

The development of projects in engineering continues at a fast and innovative pace every day, with increasingly advanced technologies being used in its professional scope. With the use of specialist software, this development and study of projects becomes more agile and secure. Because among the main advantages there is the great data processing capacity, the generation of complete reports and the display of solutions through visual tools. This work aimed to demonstrate that these specialist programs can be used in mechanical engineering courses, as a complement and support for student learning. Thus, Ansys was used, a program recognized worldwide for being very accurate and reliable. Through it, several case studies were made, in all 9, related to the disciplines of statics and mechanics of solids 1 and 2, more specifically. Among which, cases with cantilevered or simply supported beams, with concentrated or distributed loads, with linear or non-linear materials, a case of simple truss and one of parameterization. A staggered shaft undergoing different torsions was also studied. AnsysWorkbeanch© was the mainly used software, a tool that uses the Finite Element Method (FEM) to solve the proposed case studies. In the discussion of the results, in 3 cases, the results obtained by the software were compared with those obtained by manual calculations, in addition to comments through the use of images, graphs and tables. In this way, it was demonstrated how specialist software can be used as a didactic tool in graduation, to visually present, fix and deepen theoretical concepts in practice.