MSC Software Corporation and e-Xstream engineering, an MSC Software Company, and developer of Digimat, the nonlinear multi-scale material and structure modeling platform, today announced the new release of Digimat 5.1.1.
Understanding composite material behavior in product design is essential to product manufacturing industries that incorporate advanced materials into the design process for lightweighting and quality improvements. The Digimat 5.1.1 release addresses this issue by introducing new capabilities that help engineers, material suppliers, and material users reduce the cost and time to engineer innovative materials and products.
Highlights of this release include:
Material engineering
End-to-end FE analyses of Material RVE
Digimat-FE includes an FE meshing technology and solver enabling a complete tool for the end-to-end investigation of composites Representative Volume Element (RVE), based on finite element modeling. Generation of RVE has made tremendous gains in robustness & speed. Meshing (conforming & voxel), FE meshing, solution and post-processing have been integrated, and MSC Software's Marc Nonlinear FEA software was added to the external solver interfaces supported by Digimat. The robust, fast and easy analysis of (thermo) mechanical properties and thermal or electrical conductivity make RVE analyses accessible to non-FEA experts.
Woven Composites
Complete workflow to analyze 2D and 2.5D woven materials & structures
Included in this release is FE analyses of RVE, and advanced woven model support screening of properties of 2.5D woven and braided composites based on their microstructures. Linear elastic effective macroscopic responses can be used in weak coupling schemes for the purpose of structural design.
Strong coupling is supported via the basic woven capability. As a result of a strategic collaboration with LANXESS, nonlinear material models for TEPEX® are available on-demand via the Digimat eXchange platform. Draping information from PAM-FORM or via the Digimat open format can be mapped and used on the structural mesh. Combined with HYBRID solution technology, details of woven structures can be analyzed on the part and system level.
Chopped Fiber Composites
Accurate Analysis of Shell & 3D structures made easy with the new release of Digimat-RP
Digimat-RP was developed to support shell models in addition to the previously available 3D models. Digimat-RP integrates all the power of Digimat material modeling tools in an easy-to-use interface and workflow for the effective and efficient analysis of reinforced plastic parts.
The parameters for the HYBRID solution can be generated on-the-fly using multiple CPUs. Material performances such as viscoelastic-viscoplasticity and the differentiation of tension and compression in failure are added to the HYBRID solution procedure. Unit system management has also been introduced.
