Key Benefits

Nonlinear and Multiphysics Solution

Marc is optimized for nonlinear analysis and delivers wide-ranging, robust solution schemes to solve problems spanning the entire product lifespan, including manufacturing process simulation, design performance analysis, service load performance and failure analysis. These include Nonlinear analysis that incorporates all forms of nonlinearities (Material, geometric, boundary condition including contact), Thermal analysis, Coupled thermomechanical analysis, Electromagnetics, Piezoelectric analysis with higher order 3D elements, Electrical-Thermal-Mechanical analysis, Electrostatics and Magnetostatics coupled with structural response, Manufacturing processes like sheet metal forming, hydroforming, extrusion, blow molding, welding, induction heating, quenching, curing, cutting etc.

Contact Analysis

Marc’s advanced contact modeling feature assists in simulating the interaction between various components. Marc helps you gain modeling efficiency, set up and investigate self-contact without additional modeling effort and easily add, remove or modify Contact Table definitions using the Automatic Contact Detection method.

Nonlinear Materials

Marc is equipped with a rich library of metallic and non-metallic material models and a wide array of more than 200 elements for structural, thermal, multiphysics and fluid analysis to accurately model the materials used in your designs. With user-defined material models and extensive material data fitting options for advanced material models such as rubbers, plastics thermoplastics and metals, material data can be stored into an encrypted material data file using Marc.

Failure and Damage

Marc provides a wide-ranging set of failure models to analyse degradation and failure of metals, concrete, composites, and elastomers. Ductile damage, composite failure analysis, laminate bond failure, fracture mechanics, crack propagation under monotonous, low cycle and high cycle loads can be simulated through various user defined failure models.

Automatic Remeshing

The automatic remeshing schemes in Marc help in achieving greater accuracy with reduced modeling effort and better mesh quality in large deformation problems. Marc has various features such as user-defined mesh control criteria, higher order 3D elements for better accuracy and other features which are beneficial for manufacturing process simulations and self-contact analyses.

Core Solver Technology

The recognized nonlinear technology in Marc helps in developing strong and precise solutions for a large range of nonlinear problems. The top-notch convergence methods and localised convergence control help develop improvised solutions.