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Abaqus for CATIA V5

Abaqus for CATIA V5

Abaqus for CATIA V5

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Abaqus for CATIA V5 Overview
Abaqus for CATIA V5 (AFC) integrates Abaqus simulation capabilities within the CATIA V5 environment, allowing for realistic simulations during the design phase. It leverages CATIA V5's parts, virtual parts, and assemblies, maintaining associativity between geometry and analysis models. This integration supports nonlinear static, frequency extraction, explicit dynamic, and thermal simulations, as well as coupled thermal-structural simulations.
Scalable Solutions and Workflows
AFC provides a scalable solution by unifying CATIA V5 and Abaqus models, facilitating access to advanced simulation capabilities for design engineers and Abaqus experts. It supports the deployment of customer-specific workflows, enhancing product development efficiency and reliability.
Structural and Thermal Analysis Workbenches
The software is divided into Structural and Thermal Analysis workbenches. The Structural Analysis workbench handles static, frequency extraction, and explicit dynamic simulations, while the Thermal Analysis workbench focuses on heat transfer simulations. These can be coupled to assess combined thermal and mechanical influences.
Nonlinearity and Frequency Extraction
AFC offers advanced nonlinear mechanics capabilities, including large rotations and stress stiffening. It can calculate natural frequencies on both unloaded and loaded structures, which is crucial for understanding structural stiffness and deformation patterns.
Dynamic Analysis and Submodeling
Explicit dynamic analysis is suitable for large models with short response times and discontinuous events. Submodeling allows detailed analysis of local regions with refined meshes, enhancing the precision of simulations.
Materials and Contact Modeling
AFC supports linear and nonlinear material properties, including temperature-dependent attributes. It offers robust contact modeling techniques, allowing for complex interactions and self-contact effects in assemblies.
Loads, Boundary Conditions, and Meshing
Users can apply time-varying loads and constraints, with various types available. The integrated meshing tools ensure high-quality meshes, supporting different element types for accurate results.
Job Management and Connections
Job management features allow for detailed job specifications and progress monitoring. Various connection methods, such as bolts and welds, are available for modeling component assemblies.
Postprocessing and Analysis Templates
AFC provides extensive postprocessing capabilities, including visualization tools. Analysis templates facilitate the evaluation of different designs against requirements, streamlining the design process.
Concurrent Engineering and Collaborative Design
The software supports concurrent engineering by enabling the creation of assemblies from existing finite element models, promoting efficiency and collaboration. It integrates seamlessly with CATIA's design environment, eliminating productivity losses from using multiple applications.
Company Information
Dassault Systèmes, the provider of AFC, offers solutions that transform product design, production, and support, fostering social innovation and improving real-world applications. The company serves over 150,000 customers globally.
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Abaqus for CATIA V5-1

Realistic Simulation Inside CRTIR V5

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Abaqus for CATIA V5-2

Deploy Proven Analysis Workflows Throughout the Enterprise Abaqus for CATIA V5 Enables Realistic Simulation in the Design Phase Abaqus Functionality in CATIA V5 Abaqus for CATIA V5 (AFC) enables Abaqus simulations from within the CATIA V5 user environment. It maintains and reuses the CATIA V5 concepts of parts, virtual parts, and assemblies, making full use of associativity between geometry and the analysis model. Familiar CAD modeling constructs such as points, surfaces, and bodies are the basis for familiar analysis constructs such as boundary conditions, loads, and contact associations. In...

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Abaqus for CATIA V5-3

Structural and Thermal Analysis Workbenches Abaqus for CATIA V5 functionality is grouped into two CATIA V5 workbenches. Within the Structural Analysis workbench, you define static, frequency extraction, or explicit dynamic simulation models, including all of the necessary mechanical attributes. Within the Thermal Analysis workbench, you define heat transfer simulation models, including all of the necessary thermal attributes. Static and thermal simulations can be coupled together to determine the response of your model to a combination of thermal and mechanical influences. Nonlinearity One of...

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Abaqus for CATIA V5-4

Analysis Templates for Design Engineers Radial Rate Curve Axial Rate Curve The lower control arm subassembly (right) connects the car frame to the steering knuckle. All model regions where analysis attributes will be applied are published to descriptively named publications. The bushings that attach the lower control arm to the frame are modeled using a linear stiffness in the axial direction and a nonlinear stiffness in the radial direction to simulate the bushings’ carefully-tuned behavior. Pothole case CATIA V5 has tools to enable easy replacement of components in an assembly. When using publications,...

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Abaqus for CATIA V5-5

Concurrent Engineering with Analysis Assembly Analysis assembly enables creating assemblies by combining existing finite element analysis documents. With this technique companies are encouraged to create libraries of high-quality parts and sub-assemblies—including their finite element meshes and connections—that can be reused in multiple analysis scenarios, enabling greater efficiency and a better collaboration. Different users can create the finite element meshes and connections for parts and sub-assemblies. A master analysis model can be assembled from existing part and sub-assembly finite...

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Abaqus for CATIA V5-6

Delivering Best-in-Class Products Virtual Product Design Realistic Simulation Virtual Production Global Collaborative Lifecycle Management Virtual Planet Information Intelligence Dashboard Intelligence Social Innovation Online 3D Lifelike Experiences Dassault Systemes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its world-leading solutions transform the way products are designed, produced, and supported. Dassault Systemes' collaborative solutions foster social innovation, expanding possibilities for the virtual world to improve...

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