Trenitalia Enhances Rail System Efficiency with ANSYS Mechanical

Trenitalia, the Italian railway operator, was facing challenges in managing the development, construction, and maintenance of the rail transportation system in the country. The Technical and Research Department of Trenitalia was using ANSYS Mechanical for design optimization, stress strength structural checks, and maintenance engineering planning. However, the need for larger analysis models and shorter computer response times led Trenitalia to evaluate new calculation solutions. The primary issues they had to overcome included limitations in model size due to the amount of real memory used by 32-bit finite-element programs, long solution times resulting from using a single-processor platform, and hardware architecture bottlenecks in memory and storage sub-systems that increased elapsed solution times. To address these issues, Trenitalia began investigating 64-bit technology, with efficiency requirements suggesting a scalable SMP architecture.

Trenitalia is the primary railway operator in Italy, responsible for managing the development, construction, and maintenance of the rail transportation system in the country. The company's Technical and Research Department uses advanced technology for design optimization, stress strength structural checks, and maintenance engineering planning for the Trenitalia fleet. The department works in collaboration with the Information Technology Department to improve mechanical stress simulation capability and efficiency, and to overcome challenges related to model size, solution times, and hardware architecture bottlenecks.