Structural Analysis – Simulating Reality, Delivering Certainty

In memoriam- Dr. Garret N. Vanderplaats

mscsoftwareblog — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 17:22:17 +0000

Here at MSC Software we were saddened by the news recently of the passing of Dr Garret N. Vanderplaats at the age of 77 on 17 November 2021 and we invite you to help us memorialize him by sharing your memories here on LinkedIn. Dr Vanderplaats was a long-term friend and collaborator with MSC Software ...

MSC Software partners with Ingeciber to improve safety and innovation with simulation

Product Marketing — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 22:57:28 +0000

We have just extended our long-established technology partnership with Ingeciber S.A., a specialised CAE company with more than 30 years of experience in civil engineering, to offer customers easier access to simulation software that helps civil engineers deliver innovative, sustainable and safe infrastructure projects. CivilFEM powered by Marc – MSC’s nonlinear structural analysis solution – ...

Volvo Cars wins first MSC Nastran Excellence Award

Product Marketing — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 23:36:50 +0000

We are proud to announce Volvo Car Corporation Sweden as the winner of the first MSC Nastran Excellence Award, which recognizes the engineering and design innovation of its users around the world! MSC Nastran is a widely used, trusted, and accurate Finite Element Analysis (FEA) structural simulation tool. It has been the industry standard since ...

MSC Nastran 2019: Tackling the Most Difficult Problems of Tomorrow

Product Marketing — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:24:57 +0000

The release of MSC Nastran 2019.0 positions MSC Nastran to tackle the biggest and most difficult problems of tomorrow. In order to support large models with solid elements, MSC Nastran now supports five or thirteen noded transition Pyramid elements for mesh transition between different shaped solid elements. In this release, the added new FASTFR module ...

DOE and Optimization Techniques for Structural and Multibody Analysis of a Suspension System

Product Marketing — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:42:27 +0000

Achieving competitive drivability, ride comfort, and safety are challenging tasks when designing a suspension system. OEMs seek solutions to simulate and optimize the dynamic and structural behavior of a car in order to perfect handling, steering and ride quality. We teamed up with ESTECO to demonstrate how to integrate solutions to provide you with techniques to validate ...

Improve FSAE Vehicle Performance with MSC Adams Car Sponsorship

Product Marketing — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:39:05 +0000

Formula Student is a contest in which university students construct a single-seat formula racing car. It’s not the fastest car that wins, however, but rather the team that racks up the highest overall score across a range of categories: design, financial planning, and sales strategy. MSC Software has provided support to various teams with its ...

Use of FEA in Elevator Design and Test

Product Marketing — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 17:00:55 +0000

Schindler Elevator’s offerings range from passenger elevators suitable for small blocks of apartments to sophisticated transport solutions for skyscrapers. Service elevators ensure the stress-free movement of goods and people in shopping centers, office buildings and railway stations. Bed elevators provide for the smooth and vibration-free movement of patients and equipment in hospitals. In industrial buildings, many of the hoists and small good elevators in use are supplied by Schindler, while glass cabin elevators in tall buildings offer both a novel experience and a feeling of safety. It is hard to imagine public transport without elevators, which are often heavily used and must therefore meet demanding requirements in availability and serviceability.

The company’s research and development facility in Switzerland devises complete elevator systems as well as components for all applications. Here, CAE is used to find reliable and energy-efficient solutions which make the most efficient use of materials. The programs SimXpert and MSC Nastran from MSC Software are used for structural calculations using the finite element method (FE). These are used, for example, to simulate the wall fixings of elevators and determine whether deformations and loadings remain within the permissible range. The resulting design and its verification encompass the guiding system and the cabin, counterweight and drive components. In addition to static (strength) calculations, dynamic and vibration analyses are also carried out with the aid of FE methods. The field of nonlinear FE calculations is also of central significance.

Finite Element Analysis of a UAV Wing

Product Marketing — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:00:38 +0000

AeroVironment’s Global Observer is an unmanned aircraft with the wingspan of a Boeing 767 but less than 10% of the weight designed to provide communications and sensing for flights lasting up to one week at up to 65,000 feet. With a maximum wing loading of only 3.5 pounds per square feet, the wingtip deflects greater than 22 feet at its design limit load.

MSC Nastran was utilized to develop nonlinear stress, structural dynamic and aeroelastic finite element models. The structural dynamics model was correlated to a ground vibration test, both of which had to accommodate the apparent mass of the air, which is atypical. The ultimate test of the nonlinear stress model was correlation with the static wing load test.

Patran Fields

Ken Walker — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 17:00:25 +0000

Fields in Patran are used whenever you need to define variable (non-constant) data. Applications include material properties, element properties, or load variations as a function of time, frequency, or spatial position. Fields are also helpful to map results between dissimilar meshes. Practical uses are briefly described below.

Accurately Predicting the Behavior of Pneumatic Tires

Product Marketing — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:00:31 +0000

When developing the sub-systems of a vehicle, compromises have to be made among several contrasting objectives. On one hand, one wants to set all sub-systems - such as suspensions - so that they allow efficient and safe handling of the vehicle. On the other hand, comfort cannot be sacrificed too much. Being the support of the vehicle and providing forces necessary to control it, pneumatic tires are one of the most important components. However, it is very challenging to model them due to both their complicated composition and the materials used in their manufacturing process. On top of that, the modeling is done by suppliers and an in depth understanding of the interaction with the vehicle must be attained.