What's New in SIMULIA R2021x

Realistic simulation of the additive manufacturing process enables companies to optimize part designs and process parameters for additive manufacturing

• Increase dimensional accuracy of parts designed for additive manufacturing
• Minimize print time and material usage
• Eliminate unnecessary and costly physical test prints
• Reduce product development time with seamless integration between design, simulation and manufacturing

Develop environmental control systems and energy-efficient cabin designs that ensure superior thermal comfort and improve the overall passenger experience

• Quickly evaluate the performance of environmental control systems in terms of cabin temperature, humidity, air quality control, and pressurization
• Ensure a comfortable microclimate within the cabin while optimizing the seating configurations
• Support the architectural design of HVAC layouts working with HVAC engineers
• Offer a broad range of innovative cabin customizations for airline companies
• Reduce expensive and challenging physical tests

Quickly develop designs for HVAC and ECS systems that minimize energy consumption, optimize air flow and duct layout, and maximize occupant thermal comfort

• Deliver innovative and safe ECS and HVAC systems that provide the required air supply, thermal control and cabin pressurization
• Decrease the amount of expensive physical testing and the number of design iterations by performing detailed simulation of ECS and HVAC systems
• Reduce development costs and time to mark

Connect SIMULIA products with 3DEXPERIENCE and leverage the best capabilities of each for Structures, Multibody, Electromagnetic, and Fluids & Acoustics Simulation

• Run Abaqus/CAE, XFlow, PowerFLOW (coming soon), Simpack, Wave6, and CST Studio Suite in a “connected” mode, leveraging 3DEXPERIENCE capabilities for collaboration , visualization, version control and knowledge capture.
• Configure, submit and monitor simulation jobs from 3DEXPERIENCE.
• Manage existing models on 3DEXPERIENCE and share results with all stakeholders on the platform

Enable antenna system integrators and simulation specialists to collaborate on assessment and validation of installed antenna performance.

• Validate the best antenna location early in the design process, without having to test a physical prototype.
• Assess trade-offs for antenna placement based on predefined KPIs and requirements on web-based applications.
• Get real-time feedback to reduce antenna placement studies from weeks down to one day.
• Leverage SIMULIA CST Studio Suite technology to validate antenna installed performance. CST Studio Suite is a prerequisite role.

Perform detailed simulation of composite structures for stiffness, strength, manufacturability, and damage tolerance, while optimizing weight and performance

• Provide detailed structural validation from coupon level to sub-system level for metal and composite structures
• Minimize weight to meet vehicle range and performance targets
• Increase certification confidence in early and detailed design phases
• Perform detailed material and nonlinear analyses, as well as linear statics, frequency, buckling, linear dynamics, and implicit/explicit simulation
• Reduce expensive and challenging physical tests

Perform optimized and robust composites designs to maintain strength rating while optimizing weight and thereby reducing cost of manufacturing and prototyping

• Use advance surface modeling tools to create composites data on complex surfaces
• Create fully associative design to handle changes, modifications and updates quickly and automatically
• Design in context of assemblies
• Define and manage complete detailed stacking and generate plies from the conceptual design
• Generate conceptual solids or IML surfaces for early integration in the mockup
• Perform advanced producibility analysis with fiber simulation for hand layup and fiber placement
• Integrate a quality-rules-based approach for robust design and control of composites data
• Prepare drawing-based ply books with ease and manage updates and changes automatically
• Support structural simulations at the conceptual and detailed design phases to validate strength, stiffness and dynamics of the composite designs, and perform weight optimization
• Reduce cost of prototyping, leading to an accelerated time to market

Model and validate composite designs for stiffness, strength, and performance requirements, to reduce costs in composite structure prototypes and testing

• Validate composite design with associated strength criteria
• Efficiently design ply layup and material orientation to achieve required stiffness and strength while optimizing weight
• Model composite components with fundamental static, frequency, and buckling simulation
• Reduce cost of prototyping and manufacturing via early-phase design simulation to reduce time for composite product delivery

Enables design engineers to assess the structural performance and durability of products during the Design process and intuitively guide design decisions by offering powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform sophisticated multistep structural simulations, powered by market leader Abaqus technology

• Provide Product Engineers powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform sophisticated structural simulations, powered by market leader Abaqus technology, during the design process
• Fatigue simulation to predict accurate fatigue lives and ensure complex engineering products are designed for durability: avoid late re-design, minimize physical tests, reduce warranty costs, extend life in service
• Experience efficient what if scenarios through seamless associativity with geometry
• Offers multistep structural scenarios for product performance and quality testing during the product design process
• Accelerate structural performance simulation with unique automated model creation for large assemblies
• Enables high performance results visualization, particularly for very large models

Enables Design engineers to perform structural integrity assessment of any type of product for strength and durability scenarios during the Design process and intuitively guide design decisions.

• It offers powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform sophisticated multistep structural simulations, powered by market leader Abaqus technology, as well as fatigue simulation to predict accurate fatigue lives.
• Multistep structural scenarios, powered by market leader Abaqus technology, for comprehensive product performance assessment including: Static, Frequency, Thermal, Buckling, Implicit/Explicit Dynamics, Linear Dynamics
• Fatigue simulation to predict accurate fatigue lives and ensure complex engineering products are designed for durability: avoid late re-design, minimize physical tests, reduce warranty costs, extend life in service
• Seamless associativity with geometry for efficient what if scenario
• Embedded functionality for simulation geometry preparation
• Large model 3D visualization/post-processing and XY plotting capabilities enabling design insight and decision making from results

Connect CST Studio Suite with 3DEXPERIENCE and leverage the best capabilities of each for Electromagnetics Simulation

• Setup a collaborative space, add people and everyone works on the same set of data; it’s synchronized and version controlled as you work.
• Lightweight visualization of model, mesh, scenario and results; help decision makers experience results and reduce time generating reports.
• Direct access to geometry.
• Web-based portal to submit and monitor CST Studio Suite jobs from anywhere.
• Run CST Studio Suite* in a “connected” mode, leveraging 3DEXPERIENCE.
• Capabilities for collaboration, visualization, version control and knowledge capture.
• Supports all CST Studio Suite* capabilities including continued openness to run any custom plug-ins or scripts.
• Configure, submit and monitor CST Studio Suite Solvers from 3DEXPERIENCE.

Delivers electromagnetic simulation powered by industry proven CST Studio Suite technology in a seamless, intuitive, and modern user interface connected with the 3DEXPERIENCE®  platform.

• It enables designers and engineers to perform electromagnetic simulations from low to high frequency (static to optical), including the optimization of antennas, microwave components and electro-mechanical devices.
• SIMULIA Electromagnetics Engineer enables design teams to improve product performance, reduce time-to-market and minimize device malfunctions, warranty claims and recalls.
• Provides access to SIMULIA CST Studio Suite, the leading solution for low to high frequency (static to optical) electromagnetic simulations
• Supports engineers for antenna and microwave devices design to improve product performance and reduce time-to-market
• Helps engineers to identify and mitigate electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and electromagnetic interference (EMI) risks in electronic devices, minimizing warranty claims and recalls
• Consumes parametric SOLIDWORKS and CATIA design data from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to perform electromagnetic simulation

Perform fluid flow and heat transfer simulations, leading to better quality designs while avoiding manufacturing issues

• Efficiently explore fluid flow and thermal performance design alternatives to accelerate product innovation
• Leverage full integration with CAD and PLM for concurrent, simulation-driven product development
• Easily predict steady-state and long-transient flow and thermal behavior of products with the designer-centric guided interface
• Collaborate with project stakeholders around fluid flow simulation results for informed decisions
• Include local compute using up to 8 cores -- with additional compute capacity also available

Power cardiovascular innovation with the Living Heart on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform for Life Sciences

• Understand baseline cardiac behavior with human heart simulations.
• Interactively update model parameters to study disease states and explore treatment options.
• Evaluate and improve cardiovascular devices (stents, artificial valves, etc.) within the beating heart.
• Assess treatment outcomes and make device decision by including growth and remodeling effects.
• Develop innovative cardiovascular devices that are ever more reliable, easier to deploy, and effective for much longer periods of time.
• Improve outcomes of clinical studies and accelerate go-to-market with greater confidence in your devices.

Increase fidelity of simulations by calibrating advanced material models from physical or virtual test data

• Calibration of advanced material models from physical or virtual test data to enable high fidelity simulation
• Support for a broad range of materials including metals, polymers, and composites
• An intuitive user experience that is accessible to non-experts
• Built-in optimization algorithms to ensure accurate representation of test data
• The ability to share calibrated material models across the enterprise

Easy collaboration and data share with Simpack on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform for Multibody Simulation.

• Setup a collaborative space, add people and everyone works on the same set of data; it’s synchronized as you work
• Lightweight visualization of results; help decision makers experience results and reduce time generating reports
• Easy feedback between simulation experts and designers on impact of design changes
• Run Simpack* in a “connected” mode, leveraging 3DEXPERIENCE capabilities for collaboration , visualization and knowledge capture.
• Supports all Simpack* capabilities including continued openness to run any custom plug-ins or scripts

Drive innovation by exploring multiple alternatives across the complete range of operating scenarios, all to make better decisions and find optimal designs

• Investigate the relationships between design parameters and their influence on performance objectives, to improve the efficiency of design exploration
• Systematically explore variations of design parameters through optimization, to identify the best design that satisfies requirements
• Assess the influence of variability to reduce the probability of design failures
• Gain comprehensive insight into the entire design space with visualization tools that enable trade-off across conflicting objectives
• Enable intelligent decision-making collaboratively across the organization

Enable rapid development of complex multiphysics, multiscale analyses

• Couple 3D models together to capture the interaction of multiple physics in in-silico experiments
• Couple Logical (0D) and Physical (3D) models of plant and controller to capture key behaviors across multiple scales
• Utilize a unique web environment for assembly and execution of multi-physics, multiscale systems
• Track the lifecycle of experiment artifacts with full traceability

Validate and optimize plastic part and mold tooling designs by simulating the filling, packing, warpage & mold cooling early in the product development process

• Virtually test the performance of plastic part and mold tooling designs with an intuitive, guided simulation assistant that minimizes the learning curve
• Cover the needs for all industries, all key workflows, and all user personas with a single role
• Predict common molding defects including: weld-lines, sink marks, air traps, and incomplete filling (short shots)
• Evaluate the effectiveness of mold cooling system designs
• Apply advanced structural capabilities available in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, such as  non-linear multi-scale material modeling, directly on a common model
• Leverage process automation, design of experiments, and advanced optimization tools available in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

Performing detailed simulations on different product and packaging designs to accelerate performance-cost trade off and reduce time to market

• Simulate how a new package design will behave at every stage of its lifecycle, lowering costs
• Ensure the package delivers the desired consumer experience and drive consumer to place the product in their shopping basket
• Reduce development lead-time cost and improve quality and reliability
• Detect and resolve problems early in the design process
• Capture and share simulation IP for fast collaborative decisions

Facilitate collaborative decision making across the organization through the 3DDashboard to review, compare, and perform trade-offs between design alternatives

• Accelerate selection of the best designs by comparing performance metrics across alternatives and ranking designs based on requirements, using multi-criteria decision making methods
• Perform trade-offs between competing objectives and constraints
• Review, share and collaborate on geometry and simulation results, from anywhere, through a lightweight, browser-based widget
• Build your own simulation dashboard, with widgets to view all of your recent simulation content, for interactive review

Provide the detailed essential mesh and assembly modeling, to reduce non-value added tasks, and build solver-ready finite element models timely and efficiently

• Provide structures modelling and assembly for T&M, A&D, and other strategic Industry process experiences
• Fully automate mid-surface extraction, mesh generation, and mesh re-generation
• Manage subassemblies and utilize automated assembly connections modeling
• Generate abstraction shapes for simulation associated to original design geometry
• Perform collaborative model management for building and sharing models particularly suited for large assemblies

Improve productivity and reduce time-consuming manual tasks by building and deploying automated simulation processes for all users in the organization

• Efficient Drag & Drop simulation process authoring. Capture once, execute many times to increase engineering productivity
• Unique integration with native 3DEXPERIENCE geometry and parameters to deliver seamless connection with design data and zero translation
• Tight coupling with native 3DXPERIENCE SIMULIA solvers to give straightforward access to robust simulation technology
• Democratization of simulation methods through custom web interfaces tuned for non-experts throughout an organization
• The ability to trace and understand the origin and pedigree of data used in simulation studies to increase certification confidence

Engineer and validate the steel structure design, from preliminary to detail, to minimize costs and engineering time, while reducing weight

• Support full parametric design with various construction elements
• Perform early estimation of preliminary design for manufacturing planning in advance
• Experience robust and flexible detail design piece parts generation from basic design
• Perform productive design without errors and rework
• Support tight and seamless integration with manufacturing
• Generate various classification drawings and production drawings with symbolic and mechanical representations
• Efficiently develop and validate alternate design scenarios while complying with customer requirements

Enables comprehensive structural simulations covering statics, dynamics, vibration, thermal, and fatigue across a broad range of industrial applications

• Multiple structural analyses, including static or quasi static, frequency, buckling, mode-based steady-state or transient dynamic, random response, and non-linear dynamic
• Thermal analyses or sequential thermal-stress analyses (both transient or steady state)
• Advanced capability from meshing, with possible automated creation, scenario definition (up to thousands of loadcases), execution, results visualization, and report generation.
• Fatigue simulation that can predict accurate fatigue lives to ensure complex engineering products are designed for durability, and extend ordinary stress analysis to provide estimates of the lifecycle for components subjected to cyclic loads.

Accelerate product design with efficient evaluation of stress, strain, natural frequency and temperature in a guided environment

• Intuitively assess the performance of products under linear static conditions and guide the overall design process
• Quickly evaluate the strength and stiffness of components for informed what-if design scenarios
• Use a unique guided workflow process that enables any designer to rapidly determine product performance
• Easily and efficiently test product designs with automated modeling and ability to control accuracy vs compute time
• Include local compute up to 4 cores

Provide design engineers powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform linear structural simulations during the design process

• Test structural performance with a unique guided Workflow for Linear Static, Frequency, Buckling, Steady State Thermal, Harmonic and Modal Dynamic analysis types
• Easily assess large assembly performance with intuitive contact definition and powerful contact detection capability
• Evaluate structural KPIS of any geometry type with high quality meshing including solid, shell and beam elements with automatic mesh generation
• Enable high performance results visualization, particularly for very large models
• Include local compute up to 4 cores

Connect Abaqus/CAE with 3DEXPERIENCE and leverage the best capabilities of each for Structures Simulation

• Run Abaqus/CAE* in a “connected” mode, leveraging 3DEXPERIENCE capabilities for collaboration , visualization, version control and knowledge capture.
• Supports all Abaqus/CAE* capabilities including continued openness to run any custom plug-ins or script.
• Configure, submit and monitor Abaqus Solvers from 3DEXPERIENCE.
• Run Abaqus On Cloud using burst compute resources.

Enables comprehensive structural simulations covering statics, implicit and explicit dynamics, acoustics across a broad range of industrial applications

• Structural analyses (static or quasi-static, frequency, buckling, mode-based steady-state or transient dynamic, random response, non-linear dynamic)
• Thermal analyses or sequential thermal-stress analyses (transient or steady state)
• Advanced capability from meshing, with possible automated creation, model management, scenario definition, execution (tokens included), results visualization, and report generation
• Embedded tokens for running the analyses

Assess the structural performance of products in nonlinear static and dynamic environments for informed engineering decisions

• Provide product engineers powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform sophisticated structural simulations during the design process
• Experience efficient “what if” scenarios through seamless associativity/integration with geometry
• Use a unique engineering workflow with an access to robust simulation technology within an intuitive interface
• Work with multistep structural scenarios for product performance and quality testing during the product design process
• Accelerate structural performance simulation with unique automated model creation for large assemblies
• Enable high performance results visualization, particularly for very large models
• Include local compute up to 4 cores

Achieve desired thermal performance and avoid failures due to overheating. Improve safety and reduce warranty related costs

• Efficiently simulate fluid flow and thermal performance of design alternatives to accelerate product innovation
• Explore and identify optimal cooling strategies (passive, active) to address smaller form factors that drive increased heat density
• Identify optimal sizing and placement of components (fans, vents, heat sinks) within packaging constraints
• Use accurate and validated results to ensure the product fulfills required electronic certification standards

Accelerate tire innovation with fast predictions of key tire performances

• Predict key tire performances in the early stage of design
• Reduce expensive and challenging physical tests through proven predictive virtual tests
• Avoid software development costs by taking advantage of tire-specific integrated CAD-CAE solutions
• Explore design space and select the best tire lay-up
• Democratize simulations with simulation templates

Connect XFlow with 3DEXPERIENCE and leverage the best capabilities of each for Fluids Simulation.

• Setup a collaborative space, add people and everyone works on the same set of data; it’s synchronized and version controlled as you work
• Direct access to geometry
• Run XFlow* in a “connected” mode, leveraging 3DEXPERIENCE capabilities for collaboration , visualization, version control and knowledge capture.
• Supports all XFlow* capabilities including continued openness to run any custom plug-ins or scripts
• Configure, submit and monitor XFlow Solvers from 3DEXPERIENCE