Features

ANALYSIS TYPES

• linear elastic stress
• nonlinear elastic-plastic stress
• elastic buckling
• nonlinear large displacements
• contact stress between bodies & slide planes
• transient & steady-state heat transfer
• natural frequency
• transient & steady-state forced vibrations

ELEMENT TYPES

• 2d & 3d beams
• 3 & 6 node triangles - plane stress, plane strain & 3d axisymmetric
• 4 & 8 node quadrilaterals - plane stress, plane strain & 3d axisymmetric
• 3 node 3d axisymmetric thin plates/shells
• 6 node triangle & 8 node quadrilateral 3d thin plates/shells
• 6 & 15 node curved solid wedges
• 8 & 20 node curved solid bricks
• 4 & 10 node curved solid tetrahedra (only with solid model add-on)

LOADING TYPES

Stress models

• fixed displacements
• point forces/moments
• uniformly distributed forces/moments
• pressures
• temperatures
• acceleration forces
• centrifugal forces

  Thermal models

• fixed temperatures
• heat fluxes in/ out
• convection heat transfer & fluid temperatures

  Notes

  1. Different materials can be mixed in the same model.
  2. A database of common material properties is included.
  3. Element stresses are calculated at the element integration points, where they are most accurate, and extrapolated to the nodes.
  4. The difference in element stress values at a node can be plotted to indicate the adequacy of the mesh or they can be averaged to give a unique nodal value.
  5. The results of a thermal analysis can be used as input for thermal stress calculations

SOLVER TYPES

• Fast Direct Multi-Frontal Cholesky with Optimised Blocking
• Fast Iterative Conjugate Gradient with Preconditioning