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12 June 2009

Product News

LMS International Launches Four LMS Virtual.Lab Packages Tailored to the ANSYS® User Community

LMS recently introduced a new family of LMS Virtual.Lab product packages especially adapted to extend the engineering performance simulation capability of ANSYS®. The packages include individual versions of four dedicated LMS Virtual.Lab modules, each designed to enhance the ANSYS user experience offering more detailed simulation and design capabilities for multi-body simulation, structural durability, acoustics and test-simulation correlation. ANSYS users who want to benefit from more than one enhanced capability can combine any number of the packages.

“The new LMS Virtual.Lab for ANSYS product family provides a superior solution for performance engineering especially designed for the ANSYS user community. It allows complete and accurate simulation for a number of mission-critical design attributes, such as motion, acoustic and durability characteristics of a product or system,” stated Stefaan Goossens, Vice-President Simulation at LMS International. “Offering the ANSYS user community this capability, based on ANSYS Structural complemented with LMS Virtual.Lab, allows users a complete virtual design process to develop and optimize designs faster.”

The four packages consist of:

LMS Virtual.Lab Motion for ANSYS offers a highly efficient, completely integrated solution to build multi-body models that simulate the full-dynamic-motion behavior of complex mechanical system designs. With this package, ANSYS users can create a complete and accurate system model and apply forces and motion to simulate the actual operational behavior --leveraging the ANSYS Structural Simulation platform. Users can examine system designs including the influence of flexibility for one or several components.

• LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics for ANSYS provides an integrated solution to minimize radiated noise or optimize the sound quality. Convenient modeling capabilities combined with efficient solvers and easy-to-interpret visualization tools provide insight into acoustic performances. It simulates both internal and external acoustic radiation and offers dedicated applications for structural noise radiation and transmission-loss-through-panel phenomena. Based on leading LMS FEM (Finite Element Modeling) and BEM (Boundary Element Modeling) technology, this package can be used to further characterize system or component vibration and acoustic characteristics providing additional leverage for the ANSYS Structural Simulation platform.

• LMS Virtual.Lab Durability for ANSYS predicts fatigue hotspots and fatigue life by combining dynamic component loads and fatigue material parameters with ANSYS Structural Simulation stress results. This provides direct feedback regarding critical fatigue areas and the root cause of fatigue problems.

• LMS Virtual.Lab Correlation for ANSYS empowers users to compare test-based and virtual component models for more productive simulation. It offers direct access to standard ANSY vibration data and several test data formats to quickly compare and validate ANSYS-FEM models with test data to allow users to expeditiously identify possible modeling errors to systematically improve existing simulation models.

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