SIMULIA/ABAQUS

Finite Element Analysis for Mechanical and Civil Engineering

The application of the Finite Element Method (FEM) and associated technologies in structural simulation provides an in-depth comprehension of how products, assemblies, and processes react to real-world circumstances, encompassing various loads and temperatures.

Utilizing SIMULIA’s structural simulation technology facilitates the development of virtual prototypes, allowing for thorough assessment of critical performance parameters without the need for physical testing.

These parameters encompass stiffness, ensuring acceptable deformation during typical usage, and strength, guaranteeing structural integrity even under maximum design loads.

Safety measures ensure predictable failure modes to safeguard consumers and bystanders. Durability/reliability ensures a consistent and predictable product lifespan, while robustness maintains performance consistency across design and manufacturing stages.

Adherence to industry standards for noise and vibration enhances user experience, ensuring comfort and positive interactions between humans and the product or process.

Simulation and Analysis of Electromagnetic Fields

Electromagnetic simulation software allows engineers to efficiently explore the electromagnetic characteristics of individual components or entire systems. Electromagnetic (EM) systems frequently present multiscale complexities, including broad frequency spectrums and electrically large structures with intricate details. Tailored solvers leverage specialized numerical techniques for swift and precise simulation. EM simulation finds application across the entire design continuum—from conceptualization, to component synthesis meeting specifications, to analyzing electromagnetic functionality under operational conditions. Virtual prototypes are revolutionizing the design process.

Fast, High-Fidelity CFD Simulation

SIMULIA’s Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations empower clients to engineer products with precise real-world performance forecasts delivered swiftly. Our Fluids technologies tackle various challenges across industries and applications, such as eVTOL flight and community noise testing, race-car aerodynamics optimization, and automotive WLTP fuel efficiency certification.

SIMULIA Fluids Simulation operates through two complementary technologies, offering customers scalable fluid simulation capabilities to address a wide array of real-world applications. PowerFLOW and XFlow harness world-class Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) technology for high-fidelity simulations that accurately predict real-world performance. Fluid Dynamics Engineer facilitates multi-scale, multi-physics insights by integrating CFD into design, simulation, optimization, data management, and business intelligence applications within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Additionally, a Plastics Injection Molding application enables validation and optimization of plastic part and mold tooling designs early in the product development process.

Examine the movement of intricate mechanical systems subjected to mechanical forces

SIMULIA’s Multibody Systems and motion simulation empower engineering teams in crafting intricate mechanical and mechatronics products through thorough analysis of how engineering mechanisms move and interact.

The multibody system technology by SIMULIA enables clients to grasp the movements of complex systems like cars, trucks, rail vehicles, wind turbines, gearboxes, internal combustion engines, and electric motors.

Simulation and assessment of noise and vibration spanning the complete audible frequency spectrum

Noise and vibration analysis is gaining significance across various industries. The necessity to mitigate noise and vibration arises from multiple factors: governmental regulations, lightweight designs, material choices, detectability, fatigue resistance, or heightened competitive pressures.

In numerous applications, the noise emitted by a product impacts individuals who either utilize the product or are exposed to the noise it generates. Consequently, evaluating noise and vibration performance across the entire audible frequency range is often imperative. Achieving this entails employing a blend of vibro-acoustic simulation techniques, encompassing both deterministic, mesh-based methods, and statistical wave mechanics-based approaches.

The selection of the vibro-acoustic simulation method is also contingent on the product’s design stage. During the early design phases, product details may be scant. Employing rapid statistical vibro-acoustic simulation methods can ensure that noise and vibration performance considerations are integrated into the product from its conceptual stages. Analyzing a product early in the design process enhances the likelihood that noise and vibration considerations influence the final design. Additionally, it mitigates the risks associated with identifying noise and vibration issues late in the design cycle, where last-minute modifications can incur significant costs and schedule setbacks.

Automate Processes and Workflows and Find Optimal Designs

Simulation serves as a robust tool for analyzing designs to fulfill specifications and enhance performance to the maximum. Through automation and optimization, users can develop, store, manage, deploy, share, and replay standard simulation-driven design methods.

Automation streamlines processes, reducing errors, enhancing efficiency, and maximizing the value of simulations by disseminating embedded knowledge and expertise. The democratization of simulation knowledge facilitates the replication of these processes across the organization. Optimization enables comprehensive exploration of the entire design spectrum, identifying solutions that meet all design criteria while driving performance and innovation forward.

SIMULIA provides automation and optimization tools that seamlessly integrate with their top-tier simulation software. Workflows can be constructed and executed automatically, facilitating Design of Experiments (DoE) and delivering desired results without laborious manual procedures. Both parametric and non-parametric optimization tools interface with simulations, enabling swift and intelligent exploration of design spaces.