One of the major challenges faced today by various industries is to optimize design by significantly reducing weight, mostly being done by shifting from metal to composite. This approach requires a dedicated tool for accurate composite design, taking into account the specific composite behavior. Traditional design tools do not have the capability to precisely describe the local composite material behavior, resulting in the introduction of safety factors and along with apprehensions about the design.

Digimat provides users with design tools that give them complete confidence in their composite products, due to an accurate description of the local composite behavior. Accurate material modeling gives the users the advantage to minimize the "factor of safety", allowing composite materials to be used up to their 100% potential, augmenting competitiveness against metal and resulting in substantial weight reduction as well. Digimat tools get integrated easily within the current FEA process, reducing the gap between structural analysis and manufacturing process.

Digimat greatly reduces the gap between manufacturing and performance by bringing together the complete composite market. It enables engineers to do both macro and micro-scale analyses of composites and calculate their mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties. This helps in predicting how the composites will perform while calculating their mechanical, thermal and electrical properties for use in all kinds of downstream FEA analyses.

Key Benefits

Investigate and predict

Digimat enables users to predict the behavior of a large mix of composite materials. It helps bridge the gap between manufacturing and performance.

Design & Manufacture

Digimat helps to design and manufacture innovative high-Performance Composite Parts, thereby reducing weight and supporting design optimization.

Reduce product Cost through minimal material testing and prototyping

Due to the reduction in weight, significant cost benefits can be achieved in the manufacturing of various industrial parts. The number of physical prototypes is also reduced, further bringing down product development costs.

Faster time-to-market

Since the simulation is more accurate, number of iterations in product development process is reduced, leading to faster product development cycles

Better product design

Improved prediction of structural FEA Prediction by accounting for the manufacturing process helps in achieving better product design

Digimat Tools & Modules

Digimat-MF

Digimat-FE

Digimat-FE is used to generate a realistic representative volume element (RVE) for a large variety of material microstructures (plastics, rubbers, metals, graphite, ...) It helps you understand the microstructure of your composite and the material properties of its constituents for generating the FE model of the composite's RVE.

Digimat-MX

Digimat-MX is a composite materials database that provides access to experimental data at different strain rates, pressures, temperatures, radiation levels, etc. It contains Digimat material files that are already reverse engineered based on experimental data. Digimat-MX software facilitates the sharing of data among stakeholders or just internally, within a design group. The software also allows the operator to reverse engineer an entire material range using parameter identification and optimization tool that are convenient.

Digimat-MAP

Digimat-MAP is a 3D mapping software with the functionality to transfer fiber orientation, residual stresses along with temperature from the injection molding mesh to the optimal structural FEA mesh. Digimat-MAP is popular for its accuracy, efficiency, robustness and flexibility and is fully integrated with Digimat’s multi-scale modeling process.

Digimat-CAE

Digimat-CAE enables one to integrate Digimat with manufacturing tools like 3D Timon, Autodesk Moldflow Insight, Moldex3D, REM3D, SigmaSoft and Simulayt. Digimat-CAE can also be integrated with simulation tools like MSC Nastran SOL400, Marc, Abaqus/CAE (Standard & Explicit), ANSYS Mechanical, LS-DYNA (Implicit & Explicit), Optistruct PAM-CRASH, RADIOSS and SAMCEF-Mecano.

Digimat-RP

Digimat-RP (“Reinforced Plastics”) is a process-centric solution that enables engineers to perform end-to-end simulations of Reinforced Plastic parts, connecting their manufacturing processes to their final performance in an effective and user-friendly manner. With over 10 years of expertise in Reinforced Plastics modeling, packed in a conveniently usable solution, it has an intuitive interface and guided workflow. It is an industry-standard, utilized and supported by foremost material suppliers, Tier1 and OEMs.

Digimat-HC

Digimat-HC, a multi-scale tool, is used for the modeling of bending and in plane shear tests of sandwich panels. It is a comprehensive, simple, precise and flexible software tool. It takes into account the effect of the microstructure for both the core and the skins of the sandwich. For the honeycomb core, Digimat-HC is used to compute homogenized properties based on the geometry of the unit cell of the honeycomb. For the skins, Digimat-MF is used to compute the macroscopic stiffness properties of the layer based on the description of its microstructure.

Digimat-VA

Digimat-VA (“Virtual Allowables”) is a competent solution that empowers engineers to virtually compare materials just prior to getting into the extensive physical allowables. By generating virtual allowables, engineers can initiate the component design in parallel to the physical allowable campaign. It is a vertical solution that is developed to compute, instead of test, the behavior of composite coupons (u-notched, open hole, filled hole, ...) to screen, select and compute the allowables of composite materials.

Digimat-AM