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Analysis Capabilities
- Linear Static Structural Analysis
- Static Structural Analysis with Small Displacement Contact
- Modal Structural Analysis
- Linear Buckling Structural Analysis
- Linear Steady State Thermal Analysis
- FEM mode: Use of NASTRAN solver
- Linear Static Structural Analysis
- Modal Structural Analysis
- FEM mode: Use of ANSYS solver
- Linear Static Structural Analysis
- Modal Structural Analysis
- Linear Steady State Thermal Analysis
- Fatigue (optional module)
Convergence
- P-type Finite Element methodology
- Single Pass Adaptive
- Multi-Pass Adaptive
- User control on convergence criteria
- Automatic sizing and special treatment of elements near singularities
Design Studies
- Parameters as independent variables of the Design Study
- Load and Constraint values
- Material, beam, spring, mass, shell properties
- CAD model parameters
- CAD model dimensions
- General parameters through user-defined relations
- Creo Simulate Measures as dependent variables of the design study
- Local Sensitivity
- Global Sensitivity
- Optimization
General Modeling Tools
- Units Manager
- Commonly used units for all quantities available
- Creation of custom units and unit systems
- Model definition in user selected units
- Results in user selected units
- Material Library
- Typical metals and plastics included
- Storage of user defined materials
- Departmental or company material libraries
- Coordinate Systems
History-based, associative, parametric features
- User defined Cartesian, Cylindrical or Spherical coordinate systems
- Function Manager
- Quantity dependence on space, temperature, time, frequency, measure
- Symbolic
- Tabular
- Interpolated over geometry
- Process Guide
- Model definition by user defined HTML templates
- UI access through hyperlinks
Structural Boundary Conditions
- Boundary Conditions specified on geometry
- Enforced Translations and Rotations
- Mirror and Cyclic Symmetry Constraints
- Planar, Pin and Ball Constraints
- Force and Moment Loads
- Specified in terms of total or density value
- Uniform or spatially varying
- Static equivalents to point loads
- Pressure Loads
- Bearing Loads
- Gravity Loads
- Centrifugal Loads specified by the angular velocity or angular acceleration of the structure
- Inertial Loads
- Loads imported from PTC Creo Mechanism Analysis
- Temperature Loads
- Uniform or spatially varying
- Temperature fields calculated by a Creo Simulate
Thermal Analysis
- Imported External Temperature fields
Thermal Boundary Conditions
- Boundary Conditions specified on geometry
- Prescribed Temperatures
- Uniform or spatially varying
- Convection Conditions
- Uniform or spatially varying
- Imported External Fields
- Cyclic Symmetry constraints
- Heat Loads
- Specified in terms of total or density value
- Uniform or spatially varying
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Materials
- Isotropic Material Properties assigned to geometry
- Isotropic Material Failure Limits
- Supported Criteria: Modified Mohr, Maximum Shear Stress (Tresca), Distortion Energy (von Mises)
- Temperature dependent material structural properties
Element Types and Idealizations
- Continuum elements: Bricks, Wedges, Tetrahedra
- 3D Shells: quadrilateral, triangular
- Automatic and semi-automatic Compression of solid geometry to surfaces for Shell modeling
- Curved Beams
- Along Curve or Point-Point
- General Beam Section editor, including parametric Sketched Sections
- General specification of Beam Section Orientation
- Beam Releases
- Constant Stiffness Springs
- Point-to-Point or Point-to-Ground
- Extensional and Rotational stiffness
- Concentrated Masses
Meshing Tools
- Surface Regions
- History-based, associative, parametric features
- Volume regions
- History-based, associative, parametric features
- Defined as Extrude, Revolves, Sweeps, Helical Sweeps, Blends, Rotational Blends, Swept Blends or based on Quilts
- Fully Automatic Mesh Generation
- Controls through Maximum or Minimum Element Size, Point Density, Hard Points, Hard Curves
- Automatic cleanup of CAD geometry defects
Connections
- Contact Interfaces
- Surface-Surface or Component-Component
- Frictionless
- Infinite Friction with Slippage Indicators
- Press-fit
- Fasteners
- Bolts or Screws
- Connecting Solids or Shells
- Preload
- End Welds
- Perimeter Welds
- Spot Welds
- Automatic import and modeling of PTC Creo Parametric Weld Features
- Rigid Links
Results
- Multiple Result Window display
- Saved Result Window definitions
- Result Window Templates
- Full Results post-processing
- On full model or selected geometry
- Fringes, Contours, Cutting / Capping Surfaces,
Iso-surfaces
- Vector Plots
- Graphs vs. Coordinates or Along Curve
- Measure Graphs vs. Parameter,
Optimization step
- Animation
- Results recorded as Measures
At Point
- Maximum / Minimum Over Model
- Maximum / Minimum over Selected Geometry
- Functions of Measures
- Linearized Stress report
- HTLM report
- Export Formats
- Creo View
- VRML
- mpg, avi
- Graph Tables
- Excel
Process Tools
- PTC Creo Simulation Extension Model is an integral part of CAD model and fully supported by PTC Windchill
- Results optionally uploaded to PTC Windchill and automatically associated to the model
- Distributed batch processing across multiple compute servers
Language Support
- English, German, French, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese.
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