Virtual testing is of paramount significance for engineers, designers, and experts in gaining deeper, actionable insights into the product designs to address their business challenges. MSC’s structural analysis solutions enable engineers to effectively use virtual testing methods to evaluate different types of designs and validate the product design so all essential requirements are met before the physical product is built. These solutions are vital in optimizing the product development processes, minimizing the product development time and ensuring that the design meets the necessary criteria before the physical prototype is built.

MSC’s structural analysis solution capabilities are built to grow and scale-up along with your business and help in optimizing the cost of ownership and achieving your ultimate objectives. Some of the analysis solutions offered are static stress analysis, linear dynamics, nonlinear analysis, multibody dynamics, multiphysics, fluid-structure interaction, thermal-mechanical coupling, optimization, static and dynamic analysis, thermal analysis, advanced material modeling, composite material analysis, DMP, SMP, GPU and FEA, and MBD integration.

The structural analysis technologies and solutions by MSC Software have found a wide-scale implementation scope in a wide array of industries such as Aerospace and Defense, Automotive, Energy, Electronics, Heavy-equipment and Machinery, Medical, Shipbuilding as well as Consumer Products and Packaging.

Key Features

Advanced Materials and Composites Modeling

MSC solutions enable designers and engineers belonging to a broad spectrum of industry verticals offering advanced modeling capabilities in metals, plastics, rubbers, foam, composites, fluid, soil, reinforced concrete, rock, etc. Engineers can simulate composite laminates with per ply and stacking definitions, combined thermal structural material models for multi-discipline simulation, extensive failure, and yield models, creep, properties for de-lamination and crack propagation.

Numerous Analysis Types

Some of the key analysis types covered by MSC’s most advanced and reliable structural analysis solution include linear and nonlinear analysis, static and dynamic analysis, buckling analysis, steady-state, transient, frequency response, modal, and acoustic analysis, Multiphysics, and multi-discipline analysis, high-velocity and impact analysis as well as damage, failure, and wear analysis.

Large Model, Systems, and Assembly Modeling

The best-in-industry Structural Analysis Programs offered by MSC Software provides high-performance technologies that ensure an accurate and efficient analysis of complex structural systems and large assemblies. These techniques have a proven track record of success when it comes to appropriately modeling welded, glued, and fastened assemblies, as well as joint connections. Users can leverage an Automated Component Mode Synthesis technology for faster, parallelized dynamic analysis of large models. To account for extensive assembly interactions, robust 3D contact analysis capabilities are provided. Superelements enable logical portioning of a full-vehicle and reuse of component information minimising solution time. The industry-proven methodologies can take advantage of the latest in shared-memory parallel and distributed memory parallel high-performance computing platforms to offer solutions for some of the largest and most complex structural system problems.

Comprehensive Finite Element Modeling and Analysis

This is an extensive suite of finite element modeling and analysis tools to enable engineers, designers and structural analysts to perform the complete analysis process from CAD to CAE reports. Some of the key capabilities are standalone or CAD-embedded CAE modeling and analysis environments, native CAD access as well as multi-CAD import capabilities, geometry creation and editing, mid-surface extraction and geometry clean-up, advanced solid and shell meshing tools and algorithms for linear and higher-order HEX, TET, QUAD, TRIA, and BEAM elements, Material modeling including composite layups, extensive toolsets for creating and assigning loads and boundary conditions, analysis setup and job submission, 3D contact analysis, Static and animated plots and charts for structural deformations, stresses, strains, and failure with scalar and vector quantities and Macro and template creation for automated simulation process, and reporting.

Optimization and Design Improvement

Identifying the feasible design space and then developing the optimum design which meets many different requirements is critical in the product development lifecycle. MSC solutions help engineers in addressing design optimization and improvement through gradient-based shape, size, and topology techniques for structural components or systems and multi-run techniques help in understanding the global behaviour of a design.

Multi-discipline, Coupled, and Chained Simulations

The quality of the simulation results is greatly affected by the quality of inputs and it can be challenging to obtain the correct loading and boundary conditions. MSC’s solutions provide multidiscipline, coupled and chained simulations which can greatly simplify the process of re-using simulation data and improving the overall simulation fidelity, which in turn improves the quality of and confidence in the simulation. Some of the key capabilities are motion-structure integration, coupled thermal-structural analysis, fluid-structure interaction as well as chained structural simulations.

Simulation Process Automation and Content Management

Engineers and managers encounter varied challenges such as ensuring repeatability of the simulation process, high-confidence results, enabling process improvement while minimising the product development time. While trying to achieve this high engineering throughput, a large amount of information is generated which needs to be tracked and managed effectively. MSC’s next-generation solutions are geared to help capture, author, and manage your CAE processes and content, helping you to get the most out of the CAE strategy and investments.

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