SimXpert

SimXpert Integrated Simulation Environment

SimXpert is a next generation CAE application for modeling and analysis using FEA and multibody dynamics (MBD). Integrated with MSC's advanced multidiscipline (MD) solver technologies, SimXpert provides an efficient “end-to-end” solution that takes you from CAD to analysis report in a single easy-to-use application.

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“Doing more with less” is a common theme in most companies today, but designers, engineers and CAE analysts spend most of their time and effort on manual, labor intensive tasks. Translating and fixing CAD data, meshing, reworking models, creating the same plots and charts over and over – all of these mean that engineers are spending more time developing expertise in using tools rather than on evaluating and understanding their products. SimXpert changes that by providing native access to CAD data and easy to use tools to automate their simulation jobs and get results fast. SimXpert’s unified user environment also enables teams to share data, models, results and best practices across time zones, geographic boundaries, and CAE disciplines, so that they can approach problems more consistently and get reliable results faster. Complete teams of engineers can now work in a modern and easy to use interface to run multi-body dynamics, structural analysis, thermal simulations, crash tests, drop testing, and more.

Key capabilities include:

Single environment unifies linear & nonlinear FEA with multibody dynamics

SimXpert enables CAE analysts to create virtual prototypes, conduct virtual tests, evaluate results and create reports for linear FEA (structural and thermal), nonlinear FEA (implicit and explicit), and motion using a single application and a single model. Toggling between workspaces prepares models for MD Nastran, LS-DYNA, MD Adams, and other solver technologies without translation, conversion, or input deck editing.

Structures Workspace
Structures Workspace

Structures

  • Comprehensive linear and nonlinear finite element analysis
  • Advanced FEA testing for stress, thermal, vibration, and contact
Motion Workspace
Motion Workspace

Motion

  • Complete mechanical system simulation using multibody dynamics of rigid and flexible inclbodies, uding tests of different components, connections, and forces
  • Enables analysis of overall system performance and creation of accurate load predictions
Thermal Workspace
Thermal Workspace

Thermal

  • Complete thermal finite element analysis including: steady-state heat transfer, free/forced conduction, and thermo-mechanical coupling
  • Tests different heat transfer paths
Crash Workspace
Crash Workspace

Crash / Explicit

  • High-performance environment for studying complex FE models for crashworthiness and safety applications
  • Capabilities include dummy positioning, seat belt routing, airbag deployment, and explicit impact analysis
  • Advanced environment for performing large deformation, highly nonlinear, short duration transient dynamic analyses for both structural impact and coupled fluid-structure problems such as bird strike on airplanes and stent deployment in arteries

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SimXpert Template Builder

CAE automation with template
CAE automation with template

Template builder for automation of CAE best practices

SimXpert Template Builder provides a visual interface for quickly automating manual and repetitive simulation tasks for reuse and consistency across the engineering community. Intuitive, easy-to-use templates capture knowledge and best practices, and can be used to automate any step or series of steps within the SimXpert advanced workspaces and across multidisciplinary simulations.

Native CAD integration with V5, Pro-E, UGS
Native CAD integration with V5, Pro-E, UGS

Bi-directional CAD update
Bi-directional CAD update

Native CAD access obsoletes geometry translation

Eliminates data translation by enabling analysts to import and work directly with native CAD geometry. Smart Update automatically updates the analysis model when changes are made to the parametric representation of the CAD model within a SimXpert session and across any of the workspaces

Motion structure integration: stresses in a lower control arm
Motion structure integration: stresses in a lower control arm

Engine block structural thermal analysis
Engine block structural thermal analysis

Multidiscipline analysis for real-world CAE accuracy

Engineers can now perform interoperable, multidisciplinary analyses on virtual prototypes of everything from components to complex engineering systems. This enables simulation of product behavior under real-world loading and environmental conditions, including the complex interactions between engineering disciplines, without the inefficiencies of deploying multiple point technologies or relying on costly physical prototypes.

break analysis in SimXpert
Brake analysis in SimXpert
 best practice capture in SimXpert
Best practice capture in SimXpert
 Unified workspace environment
Unified workspace environment

Industry Uses:
  • Automotive: Powertrain, Seals and gaskets, Brakes, Suspension, Gear contact, Multi-body dynamics
  • Aerospace and Defense: Landing gear, Composites, Wing structures, Fuselage, Seals and hoses, Sheet metal forming
  • Heavy Equipment: Gears, Steering yokes, Belts, Hoses, Manufacturing
  • Medical: Stents, Catheters, Pacemakers, Dental and knee implants, Prosthetics, Muscle and tissue, Hospital equipment like beds, wheel chairs
  • Packaging: Bottle forming, Bottle top load tests, Snap-on caps, Child safety lids
  • Oil and Gas: Packers, blow out preventers, Seals and gaskets, Pipes and casings, Weldments, Drill bits
  • Wind Energy: Composite blade analysis, Composite failure, Gears and bearings
Related Applications: Systems & Controls, Rotor Dynamics, Explicit, Structural, Thermal, Multiphysics, Multidiscipline, Motion, Noise & Vibration, Nonlinear, Composites, Process Automation, Fluid-Structure Interaction

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