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Dassault Systèmes Bronze Partner
We are a Dassault Systèmes Bronze Partner and we use SIMULIA every day on our own projects, to size test benches, lifting equipment, special machines and components. We put that same experience at the disposal of the companies that buy the licences: we supply SIMULIA products on the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform together with the technical consulting needed to put them to work.
3DExperience
The platform the SIMULIA products run on, in the cloud or installed at your site. It holds models, data and validated calculation methods together and makes them available to design, analysis and manufacturing, with versions under control.
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Abaqus
The solver we use for structural checks: linear and non-linear static analysis, contact, large deformations, dynamics, thermal analysis and composite materials in the same model. It is the tool we size frames, lifting equipment and test benches with.
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FE-Safe
It calculates the fatigue life of a component starting from finite element results: real load cycles and material curves go in, and out comes where the component fails and after how many cycles. It interfaces with the main FEA suites, Abaqus included.
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Isight
It links several models and applications into a single flow, runs the analyses while varying the parameters and collects the results. It pays off when the same check has to be repeated many times: thicknesses, diameters, tolerances, materials compared.
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Simpack
It simulates the motion of mechanisms and machines: linkages, suspensions, drivetrains and handling systems. It returns the forces produced by the motion, which become the starting load for the structural checks.
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Tosca
Shape, topology and sizing optimisation from FEM and CFD results: it shows where the material is working and where it can be removed, keeping stiffness and strength. Useful when weight and envelope matter.
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Abaqus: structural analysis of components and machines
Abaqus is the solver we use for structural checks: linear and non-linear static analysis, contact, large deformations, composite materials, dynamic and thermal analysis in the same environment, within a single model.
In our projects Abaqus is used to size frames and lifting structures to UNI EN 1090 and the Eurocodes, to verify equipment and test benches before they are built, to check components in composite materials and to cut down the number of physical prototypes.
When the calculation is part of a supply, the report goes with the technical file; when it is a service on its own, we hand over the model, the assumptions and the results against acceptance criteria agreed before we start. The details are on the FEM analysis and structural checks page.
We assess with you which analyses to cover, the licence configuration and the timing.
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Simpack: dynamics of systems in motion
Simpack simulates the motion of mechanisms and machines: linkages, suspensions, drivetrains, handling systems. Where Abaqus looks at the strength of a single component, Simpack looks at the forces that arise from the motion of the assembly.
We use it when the forces involved depend on movement, not on a static load.
It gives the loads on bearings, joints and actuators, it verifies cycle times and accelerations of a handling system, and it shows what happens in an emergency stop or when parts collide.
The loads coming out of Simpack become the starting point for the structural checks, so that sizing starts from calculated values instead of safety margins taken by habit.
We assess with you which analyses to cover, the licence configuration and the timing.
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Isight: analysis campaigns that run on their own
Isight links several models and applications into a single flow, runs the analyses in sequence while varying the parameters, and collects the results.
It pays off when the same analysis has to be repeated dozens or hundreds of times.
For example to compare thicknesses and diameters, to see the effect of machining tolerances, or to compare different materials under the same constraints.
Instead of someone launching the runs by hand and copying out the results, the flow runs by itself and returns the combinations that meet the design constraints. It is worth it when calculation campaigns are frequent: for a one-off analysis it is not, and we will tell you so.
We assess with you which analyses to cover, the licence configuration and the timing.
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3DEXPERIENCE®: models and methods in one place
On the 3DEXPERIENCE platform models, data and calculation methods stay available to the whole team, instead of living on the computer of whoever ran the analysis.
It matters when several people work on the same project, possibly at different sites.
Design, analysis and manufacturing see the same versions, and validated calculation methods stay available for the next project instead of being rebuilt every time.
Licences can run in the cloud or be installed at your site: we assess together which of the two suits you, based on model size, data confidentiality and the computing resources you already have.
How we use SIMULIA in our own projects
We start from the analyses you need to run and the size of your models: the licence configuration follows from that, not the other way round.
Here are some examples:
We assess with you which analyses to cover, the licence configuration and the timing.
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