STRESS & DISPLACEMENT ANALYSIS Full range of stress and displacement analysis capability with enhancements to deal with clearances, contact problems, HCF endurance, plus creep and plasticity analysis. Provision for complex creep law and other non-linear material models.

THERMAL ANALYSIS World leading thermal analysis capability including advection, complex thermal contact, user defined convection conditions, voids with thermal mass, and streams or ducts with variable flow. Combined and coupled thermo-mechanical analysis. Includes facilities for fully integrated coupling to CFD and geometry optimisation analyses.

SC03 Easy to use intuitive interface

• User interface praised by user throughout the world
• Automatic 2D & 3D mesh generation combines geometry healing, semiheuristic meshing rules and other meshing tools to ensure complex geometries can be easily meshed.
• Full adaption over all types of analyses, for 2D & 3D continua
• Powerful mathematical expression capability means that all technical data can be supplied as a functional expression.
• Import 3D geometry from STEP (via external commercial translator) or 2D geometry from IGES (directly)
• Mesh import using a Patran neutral file.

SC03 Insightful Results visualization and Post Processing

• Contour Plotting on Arbitrary Sections
• Contouring ondisplaced shape
• Animations & time plots
• Visualise results from other analysis systems

• Unrunning allows the build shape for a given running aerofoil shape to be determined
• Cyclic Symmetry analysis
• Rotation effects - removes assumption of fixed rotation axis