This core package includes FEMPRO, an easy-to-use, single user interface for finite element modeling, results evaluation and presentation; and a suite of modeling capabilities.

Analysis capabilities include static stress analysis with linear material models; weight, center of gravity and mass moment of inertia analysis and linear contact.

ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES

• Static stress with linear material models
• Natural frequency (modal)
• Transient stress (direct integration)
• Multiple-body contact and interaction
• Hertzian contact
• Thermal stress
• Voltage-induced effects
• Weight, center of gravity and mass moment of inertia

• CAD support for 2-D and 3-D wireframe geometry in CDL, DXF and IGES file formats
• Superdraw 2- and 3-D sketching tools including capabilities to draw points, lines, rectangles, arcs, circles, splines and tangent lines and modify sketch objects with commands including copy, divide, fillet, intersect, rotate, mirror, move, parallel, trim/extend and delete
• Complex surface modeling using NURBS, polylines and b-splines
• Capability to combine all element types available for a given analysis type in a single model
• Capability to define loads and constraints relative to a local coordinate system
• Provides direct access to AISC section property data for use with beam elements
• Interactive definition of beam cross-section orientation
• Capability to define beam offset locations
• Capability to import FEA models that are stored in ABAQUS, ANSYS, FEMAP, NASTRAN, PATRAN or SDRC file formats
• Support for Tsai-Wu, Maximum Stress or Maximum Strain failure criteria for composites

• 2- and 3-D parametric, structured meshing options for 3-point triangular, 4-point rectangular, 8-point 3-D, between two objects and 4-object 3-D meshing
• Automatic, unstructured 2-D meshing

LOADING AND CONSTRAINTS

Forces Voltages Pressures Distributed loads Global and off-axis constraints Variable-stiffness off-axis constraints

Moments Prescribed displacements Tractions Gravitational forces Mean temperature difference End releases

Temperatures Prescribed rotations Hydrostatic pressures Centrifugal forces Curing temperature difference

MATERIAL MODELS Linear elastic isotropic Temperature-dependent thermal isotropic Linear elastic orthotropic General piezoelectric Piezoelectric Composite laminate Linear temperature-dependent isotropic SOLVER OPTIONS Skyline Iterative Symmetric sparse Parallel processing for multiple processors Banded
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RESULTS EVALUATION

• Integrated environment for model visualization and results evaluation
• 3-D dynamic viewing options and rich colors provided by OpenGL-based displays
• Material and result rendering for model and analysis visualization
• Cross-sectional viewing options
• Dynamic clipping planes for slicing models
• Capability to display parts as transparent (translucent)
• Multiple methods for selecting parts or elements in order to hide areas of the model
• Result contours of:

  Displacement Strain Reaction force Vector plots of principal stress directions

  Stress Strain energy density Factor of safety

• Annotations to highlight the location of minimum and maximum results
• Capability to define result probes at desired locations
• Annotation of graph values
• Capability to display or graph results in an arbitrary orientation using a local coordinate system
• Capability to simultaneously view varying result types through multiple view windows
• Shear and bending moment diagrams
• Text output of weight, volume, center of gravity, mass moment of inertia and products of inertia
• Precision contouring for accuracy assessment
• Stress linearization utility for use with a linear static stress analysis on thin-walled structures
• Capability to combine the results of multiple linear static stress analyses
• Built-in, virtual instrumentation through Monitor for result graphs
• Automatic display of units in the results legend
• Uses TrueType fonts for legend and annotations
• Dynamic controls for positioning the results legend, annotations and background images
• Pre-defined and user-defined color palettes for result contours
• Slider to dynamically control the scale and display of the displaced model
• Capability to display the undisplaced model using transparency
• Slider for controlling the display of elements based on a lower or upper result limit
• Capability to individually control the color, mesh and display of results for each part
• Realistic visualization of beam elements
• Realistic visualization of plate elements
• Point-and-click result inquiry options
• Inquire mode enables results from selected objects or load and constraint data to be displayed and available for copy and paste operations to other applications
• Result text listing
• Support for exporting results to common Windows applications
• Capability to save all settings for a specific presentation and view that same display at any time or use those settings with a different model
• Graphical element orientation display
  
  

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