This post is a continuation in a series about simulation on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and some of the roles you can find there. This week we are focusing on the Durability and Mechanics Engineer Role and how it enables design engineers to perform structural integrity assessment of any product for strength and durability scenarios early during the design process.

Overview

SIMULIA Durability and Mechanics Engineer enables design engineers to perform structural integrity assessment of any type of product for strength and durability scenarios early during the design process and intuitively guide 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.

Key Capabilities

SIMULIA Durability and Mechanics Engineer offers powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform sophisticated multistep structural simulations as well as fatigue simulation to predict accurate fatigue lives and understand how the product will perform in the real life.

Simulation Driven Design:

• Assess the product structural performance under Multistep structural scenarios, powered by market leader Abaqus technology, for comprehensive product performance assessment including: Static, Frequency, Thermal, Buckling, Implicit/Explicit Dynamics
• 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
• Estimate the lifecycle of components subjected to cyclic loads with stress and strain methods with robust durability simulation during the design cycle
• Use and calibrate a wide range of material models with Material calibration capabilities
• Perform strength and durability assessment with a guided workflow, customizable, for fast adoption and reduced learning curve
• Investigate simulation results with robust and intuitive 3D post-processing and XY plotting capabilities enabling design insight and decision making from results
• Share simulation results and collaborate on any design projects from anywhere
• Run simulation computations on multiple cores either on a local computer or remotely on the cloud to free up local machines for other work
• Perform seamless collaboration workflows with the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform

Benefits

• Empowers product engineers with the ability to perform sophisticated structural simulations during the design
  process powered by the market-leading Abaqus technology
• Offers fatigue simulation to predict accurate fatigue lives and ensure complex engineering products are designed for durability, helping avoid late re-design, minimize physical tests, reduce warranty costs, and extend life in service
• Enables users to efficiently work with what-if-scenarios through seamless associativity with geometry
• Standardize and democratize your simulation workflows enabling experts to easily customize the user interface and guide non-experts or first-time users through the simulation workflow
• Accelerates structural performance simulation with automated model creation for large assemblies
• Use test data to calibrate model behavior for material model fidelity
• Automatically remove undesired geometry (holes, fillets, logos), extract mid-surface, and partition geometry for hex meshing in a single user interface
• 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