For years hundreds of companies have been using MSC motion analysis products, like Adams, to save money, shorten design cycles and improve their products. Companies know that motion analysis is important because product design frequently requires an understanding of how multiple moving parts interact with each other and their environment, from an automobile or aircraft to a washing machine or assembly line. Moving parts generate loads that are often difficult to predict. Complex mechanical assemblies present design challenges that require a dynamic system-level analysis to be met. Accurate modeling can require representations of various types of components, like electronic controls systems and compliant parts and connections, as well as complicated physical phenomena like vibration, friction and noise. Motion analysis enables one to meet these challenges by quickly evaluating and improving designs for important characteristics like performance, safety and comfort. MSC solutions for motion analysis cover a broad range of multibody dynamics simulation functionality provided through rich, easy-to-use pre and post-processing interfaces and industry leading solvers.
Mode shape visualization of business jet flexible inner flap
Modal stress recovery on an automatic weapon flexible casing ejection
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Flexible Body Representation
Represent the flexibility of model components by importing finite element models from most major FEA software packages. This will allow the capture of inertial and compliance properties which will increase load prediction accuracy. By including MSC’s efficient modal flexible body representation for only those parts whose compliance is important to the solution accuracy simulation times are drastically shorter than those seen on FEA-only environments. Post-processing allows for visualization of individual components’ mode shapes as well as their compliance in full system animations. Contour plots of deformation and recovered stresses are also available.
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