Simulation Services

Our services virtually span the entire scenario of simulations currently possible in the thermo-structural domain, as listed below.

Static

  • Linear and non-linear elastic
  • Elastic-plastic (using different material models, from the simple elastic-perfectly plastic one to the actual stress-strain curves)
  • Contacts among parts and self-contact
  • Linear buckling
  • Post buckling
  • Bonding damage&failure
  • Ductile damage&failure

Dynamic

  • Modal
  • Implicit transient
  • High speed impacts (such as crash & bird strike)
  • Frequency and spectrum response
  • Time history

Thermal

  • Steady state
  • Transient
  • Coupled thermo-structural

Detailed Assessments

  • Fatigue (with different criteria)
  • Bolted and riveted connections
  • Welded connections
  • Stress linearization (according to ASME or RCC-MR rules)

Structural Optimization

  • Topological
  • Size
  • Shape
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Materials

  • Isotropic homogeneous (steel, aluminium, titanium, magnesium)
  • Composites (carbon, glass, Kevlar fibres)
  • FRP (plastics reinforced with short fibres)
  • Hyperelastic (rubbers)
  • MMC (Metal Matrix Composites)

FEM Trainings

  • Basic: linear, modal and buckling analyses
  • Advanced I: non linear static: large deflections, contacts, material plasticity
  • Advanced II: composites & hyperelastic
  • Advanced III: dynamic implicit and explicit

CG CAE has its own licenses for the Dassault Système ABAQUS software, the renown code that can deal with the many different problems posed by engineering practice.

On top of that, we can use other commercial software, like ANSYS, NASTRAN and the ALTAIR suite.

Finally, at CG CAE we do believe in the utility of open source software and, whenever possible, we use CalculiX together with PrePoMax and MecWay to prepare, solve and post-process our models.