NX Advanced FEM Fact Sheet - Siemens PLM Software - #4

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Beam section properties

Beam section properties may be defined from a standard set of sections or directly from CAD geometry simplifying the task of generating the appropriate data for the beam definition.

Loads and boundary conditions

NX Advanced FEM provides extensive capabilities to define loading and boundary conditions to correctly simulate operating environments:

• Loads can be defined on and associated with geometry. The creation of the load will ensure a node is placed at the location during automatic meshing.

• Mesh point

• Face

• Edge

• Curve

• Restraints defined on and associated with geometry

• Mesh point

• Face

• Edge

• Curve

• Support for surface-to-surface contact definitions

• Surface-surface glue contact

• Automatic face pairing

• Coupling

• Automatic coupled DOF

• Manual coupled DOF

• Constraints and restraints, including nodal displacement

• Structural loads

• Nodal forces and temperatures

• Element face and edge pressures

• Acceleration (gravity, translation, rotation)

• Ambient and reference temperatures

• Heat transfer loads

• Nodal and distributed heat sources

• Face and edge fluxes, convection and radiation

• All loads and restraints displayed with unique graphical symbols

• Associativity of geometry-based loads and restraints is maintained through design geometry changes

• Definition of time-varying loading and boundary conditions to correctly simulate nonlinear loading conditions