Nonlinear and Thermal Analysis –
SIMULIA for CATIA V5
With SIMULIA virtual simulation and testing of products becomes an everyday method in the development process to improve product quality, reduce the need of physical prototypes and continuously leverage innovations.
SIMULIA provides a scalable portfolio for realistic simulation:
- CATIA Analysis product
- Abaqus product suite for comprehensive Finite Element Analysis
- Multiphysics models and
- Simulation Lifecycle Management (SLM) Solutions to manage simulation data and intellectual property
The existing CATIA Analysis products are ideal for designers who want to evaluate their designs, but are limited to the linear structural response of parts and assemblies. Many products are subject to both thermal and structural loads, or are made of materials like rubber that are inherently nonlinear. Designers may also want to study the effect of overload conditions when the product might suffer permanent deformation.
The two new products Nonlinear Structural Analysis (ANL) and Thermal Analysis (ATH) address this needs within the CATIA V5R19 environment, based on leading Abaqus technology. They extend the existing CATIA V5 Analysis functions by nonlinear and thermal calculations and thereby allow accurate sizing and quick real world performance evaluation.
Product Features / Benefits:
Nonlinear Structural Analysis (ANL)
- Implicit simulation of nonlinear static effects, such as large deformation and material nonlinearity
- Modeling material plasticity (e.g. metal) and nonlinear elasticity of hyperelastic material (e.g. rubber)
- Definition of complex contact and friction effects.
- Multi-step analysis
- Natural frequency analysis including preloading effects
- Thermo-mechanical coupling in combination with ATH
Thermal Analysis (ATH)
- Allows steady-state and transient temperature analysis
- Different thermal loading such as the direct warming of a surface, the flow of a fluid past a surface or the specified temperature of the surface
- Simulation of the temperature distribution within a part or an assembly
- Specification of the heat transfer across the interface of contacting bodies
- Material properties with temperature-dependent thermal conductivity
- Thermo-mechanical coupling in combination with ANL
Customer Benefits:
- Fully integrated in the CATIA development and analysis environment, specially for designers and engineers
- Familiar consistent user interface ensures simple operation
- Using the CAD geometry itself to define, calculate and evaluate the analysis
- Avoiding interface problem with the import and export
- Due to the associativity between CATIA model and analysis geometric designs can be varied easily and the corresponding analysis is updated at the push of a button
- Using CAE early in the development process it provides a quick and reliable evaluation of various design alternatives
- Improved product performance data and less material usage through geometric optimization in connection with CATIA Knowledgeware
- Cost reduction through less physical prototypes and real testing environments
- Correct interpretation of the designs and ability to deliver the right design the first time
Partnership:
Additional Product Info:
- Dassault Systèmes product broschure "SIMULIA Nonlinear Structural Analysis (ANL)" (pdf, 446kb)
- Dassault Systèmes product broschure "SIMULIA Nonlinear Structural Analysis (ANL) - Technology Brief" (pdf, 2,1mb)
- Dassault Systèmes product broschure "SIMULIA Thermal Analysis (ATH)" (pdf, 465kb)
- Dassault Systèmes product broschure "SIMULIA Thermal Analysis (ATH) - Technology Brief" (pdf, 4,6mb)
- Dassault Systèmes product broschure "SIMULIA Extended Analysis" (pdf, 1,0mb)
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