Structural simulation using the Finite Element Method (FEM) and related technologies, offers a deep understanding of how products, assemblies, and processes respond to real-world conditions, including varying loads and temperature. SIMULIA’s structural simulation technology enables the creation of virtual prototypes, enabling the comprehensive evaluation of crucial performance indicators instead of relying on physical testing.
These indicators include stiffness, ensuring deformation is acceptable under normal use, and strength, upholding structural integrity even under the maximum design loads. Safety guarantees predictable failure modes to protect consumers and bystanders. Durability/reliability ensures a consistent and predictable product lifespan, and robustness maintains performance consistency throughout the design and manufacturing phases. Adherence to industry standards for noise and vibration delivers a superior user experience, comfort assures positive interactions between humans and the product or process.
Structural simulation plays a pivotal role in achieving key business objectives, reducing risks, ensuring compliance with standards, and reducing time to market. Structural Simulation software enables users to:
Finite Element Analysis (FEA)-Driven design insights reduce costs, eliminate errors, and shorten design cycles. Unlike typical prototype testing, virtual prototypes can tell you much more than pass/fail. It can tell you why a part can fail and can help you understand whether your improvements can prevent it from failing. And unlike physical testing, mechanical simulation is available 24/7/365.
Realistic simulation of the additive manufacturing process enables companies to optimize part designs and process parameters for additive manufacturing
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Perform detailed simulation of composite structures for stiffness, strength, manufacturability, and damage tolerance, while optimizing weight and performance
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Model and validate composite designs for stiffness, strength, and performance requirements, to reduce costs in composite structure prototypes and testing
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Generate high-performance design concepts meeting structural requirements based on advanced linear and nonlinear simulation
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Assess the structural performance and durability of products during the design process and intuitively guide design decisions
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Enables comprehensive structural simulations covering statics, implicit and explicit dynamics and fatigue to assess structural integrity of any type of product
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Test cardiovascular device designs in-silico to assess and improve device performance, efficacy and safety
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Increase fidelity of simulations by calibrating advanced material models from physical or virtual test data
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Provide the detailed essential mesh and assembly modeling, to reduce non-value added tasks, and build solver-ready finite element models timely and efficiently
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Engineer and validate the steel structure design, from preliminary to detail, to minimize costs and engineering time, while reducing weight
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Enables comprehensive structural simulations covering statics, dynamics, vibration, thermal, and fatigue across a broad range of industrial applications
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Accelerate product design with efficient evaluation of stress, strain, natural frequency and temperature in a guided environment
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Provide design engineers powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform linear structural simulations during the design process
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Enables comprehensive structural simulations covering statics, implicit and explicit dynamics, acoustics across a broad range of industrial applications
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Assess the structural performance of products in nonlinear static and dynamic environments for informed engineering decisions
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