Computer-aided engineering (CAE) has long proven its value as a troubleshooting and analysis tool, but is generally perceived as slow, delivering accurate results too late to drive development. The simulation process with traditional CAE tools is slow due to tedious geometry cleanup processes, and simulation disciplines are disconnected from each other, hampering efficient workflows.
To meet complex challenges, product engineering teams need a unified, shared platform for all simulation disciplines, with leading-edge analysis tools that are easy-to-use, incorporate more productive workflows and produce consistent results.
Simcenter™ 3D software from Siemens Digital Industries Software addresses complex product engineering processes by delivering revolutionary improvements in simulation efficiency. With advanced capability 3D simulation technologies and a comprehensive range of CAE applications, Simcenter 3D offers new methods that increase realism and deliver better insight into your product’s performance. Simcenter 3D captures expert knowledge and best-practice workflows, enabling engineers and analysts to collaborate on a platform that accommodates all aspects of functional performance.
Faster CAE processes
Simcenter 3D is an integrated environment in which you do all of your CAE pre-and postprocessing. Within this environment, Simcenter 3D offers what customers often describe as unrivaled geometry manipulation tools that can handle computer-aided design (CAD) data from any source, provide comprehensive meshing and modeling for multiple simulation applications, and deliver the unique capability to associate the analysis model to design data. This helps you speed the tedious model-ing process and keep analysis models in sync with the latest design. This trans-lates into a much faster CAE process than can be achieved with traditional CAE tools.
Multidiscipline integration
Simcenter 3D integrates industry standard, multidiscipline simulation solvers, all from a centralized engineering environment. The Simcenter 3D simulation solvers for structures, acoustics, structural dynamics, durability, motion, thermal, flow, electromagnetics and more help you to predict real-world performance for a large variety of physics domains. This tight integration of solutions streamlines multiphysics processes that would otherwise be too challenging to perform.
Open and scalable
In addition to supporting Siemens’ multidiscipline solvers, Simcenter 3D can be used as a pre and post-processing tool for other common, third-party solvers like ANSYS, Abaqus, MSC Nastran and LS-Dyna.
This means you can take advantage of the excellent CAD associativity, geometry editing tools and comprehensive meshing capabilities of Simcenter 3D to immediately reduce the time necessary for your simulation workflows.
The common environment also gives engineers a scalable platform on which to build automated routines to drive repeatable and complex simulation processes.
Tied into the digital thread
As part of the Simcenter portfolio of simulation tools, Simcenter 3D integrates with the digital thread that spans 3D simulation, 1D simulation and testing solutions. However, simulation is just a part of a longer digital thread running through your product development processes. Simcenter 3D also keeps your simulation processes tied to this longer thread with a seamlessly managed environment that connects with simulation data management.
This keeps your simulation processes in sync with digital development processes like CAD, routing, product requirements and manufacturing processes.
Flexible licensing
To make Simcenter 3D even more flexible for your simulation team, Simcenter 3D offers value-based token licensing. Instead of purchasing individual licenses for each add-on module, you can buy packs of tokens that allow you to instantly access most Simcenter 3D products.
With value-based licensing, almost the entire suite of Simcenter 3D products is immediately available to you and your team.
Reduce risk by using simulation to save time and cost
Simcenter 3D software addresses complex product engineering by delivering significant improvements in simulation efficiency. With advanced-capability 3D simulation technologies and powerful model preparation technology, Simcenter 3D offers new methods that increase realism and deliver better insight.
Accelerate innovation with rapid iterations
Synchronous technology in Simcenter 3D helps you reduce the time spent on model abstraction and geometry editing. Meshes, loads and boundary conditions are all associated with the base design, so when the design topology changes, you can rapidly update your simulation results. The solvers and analysis tools pro-vide all the accuracy and speed you need for timely simulation-driven insights.
Investigate product performance virtually under all possible operating conditions
Simcenter 3D includes solvers that enable you to dive deep into the physics. Every application specialist will find state-of-the-art technology that fits the problem – static or dynamic, linear or nonlinear, composite or other, including temperature-dependant materials and thermal loads acting on a structure.
Industry applications
Simcenter 3D have helped manufacturers as well as engineering suppliers in many industries with their critical engineering computing needs so they can produce safe, reliable and optimized designs within increasingly shorter design cycles.
Airframe - Aerospace and Defense - Aero engines
• Airplane frame – Stiffness, frame durability, modal frequency
• Wings – Stiffness, skin buckling, modal frequency
• Airplane hatch – Seals, structural strength
• Airplane pylons, ailerons, stabilizers – Stiffness, strength
• Satellite – Thermal stress and distortion, composites, modal frequency
• Launch vehicles – Thermal stress, maneuver loads, payload bracket loads
• Launch structures – Wind loads, launch loads
• Aero engines fans – Rotating loads, distortion, composites
• Aero engines compressor – Rotating loads, thermal stress and distortion, lifing, bolt stresses, cyclic symmetry, axisymmetry
• Aero engines turbines – Rotating loads, thermal stress and distortion, lifing, creep, cyclic symmetry, axisymmetry, break-out modeling
• Aero engines casing – Bearing loads, maneuver loads
Automotive – Ground vehicles
• Body – Roof crush, panel strength, stiffness, frame durability
• Powertrain/driveline – Torque loads, thermal stress and distortion
• Chassis – Harshness loads, suspension deflections
• Off-highway vehicles – Strength, durability, rollover protective structures (ROPs), stability
• Manufacturing tools –Thermal stress and distortion, modal frequency, bolted stresses
• Support structures – Stability, stress
Marine
• Full ships –Stiffness, deformation, strength
• Hulls – Skin rupture
• Bulkheads – Structural strength
Electronics
• Hand-held equipment – Drop simulation, plastic component stress
• Printed circuit boards (PCB) – Thermal stress and distortion, solder joint strength
• Electronic boxes – Bracket strength, modal frequency
Consumer goods
• Packaging – Strength, stability, hyperelasticity, creep
Credit: Siemens Digital Software
