ansa meta for composites brochure-public

7/29/2019 Ansa Meta for Composites Brochure-public

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PostProcessorsoftware systemsp i o n e e r i n g

ANSA

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www.beta-cae.gr

C A E t o o l s f o r

products made of

composite materials


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Composite materials demonstrate significant advantages such as weight saving potential,

increased strength and greater design flexibility. However, these are combined with significant

design restrictions and considerations. In order to fully exploit the composite materials potential, cost

and time effective design, analysis and manufacturing processes are required.

New software tools are offered by BETA CAE Systems for the modeling, simulation and analysis of the

behaviour of products made of fibber reinforced laminated composites. The Laminates Tool and

other special features were developed and integrated within ANSA pre-processor. Also theCompositePost Toolbar is offered within ETA post-processor. These tools, combined with the rest of

the high performance functionality of the complete pre- and post-processing environments of ANSA

and software suite, offer a unique solution for the simulation of products that include parts

made of composite materials.

ANSA Laminates Tool

Using the Laminates Tool, in combination with a collection of software features of ANSA, the analyst canmaster the laminates model to be submitted to the solver. ANSA enables the analyst to performautomatically, or through a graphics user interface and with the assistance of comprehensive interaction,several distinct tasks, such as:

Bidirectional interface with CAD-based software forcomposites design

Mapping of the laminates information, derived fromCAD-based software, to the discipline specific finiteelement mesh model within ANSA, using the ANSAResults Mapping tool. The mapping procedure, leadsto the lossless assignment of material orientation,material definition, element thickness per layer andelement orientation per layer, attributes to the CAE

meshed parts.

- Building, handling and modifying all the Layers and Sequences (Groups of Layers) of a composite model,without any concern for the solver induced constraints, exploiting a special Laminate Property generatedin ANSA.

- Visualization, check and modification of the material orientation.

- Check of the material definition.

- Synchronization of material definition with available material database.

- Visualization of the element thickness.

- Visualization of element information.

- Review of the orientation and thickness values, per layer,through a comprehensive report.

- Management of the properties list.

- Check of the laminates property, by acquiring report onnominal thickness and orientation of fabrics.

- Generation of summaries and reports of the laminatesmodel.

- Generate and output to CAD updated layer boundariesand layer attributes.

- Automatically create 3d-curves per ply for the plyboundaries and obtain them as geometric description into a file, which can be propagated back to thedesign.

- Preview of how the laminate property will be outputted to each solver.

- The final laminates definitions, based on the FEA model as is prepared to be submitted to the solver, canbe outputted and fed back to the CAD-based composites design software.

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Abaqus, Nastran, ANSYS, LS-DYNA,PAM-Crash, Radioss and PERMAS, solvers are supported.

CAE tools for products made of composite materials


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CompositePost Toolbar

Analysts demand to evaluate results of intricate products and complex simulation models in a high-performance manner, with direct references to the initial materials of the design process. Therefore, specialconsideration is given to the provision of automated tools for the post-processing of results deriving from theanalysis of products from laminated composites.

The solver results from the analysis of products made of composite materials can be processed by post-processor for evaluation, report generation and decision making towards the design improvement. In order to

accommodate the requirements of the analysis of these results, offers the CompositePost Toolbar, a set ofintegrated specialized functionalities, collected into a single user interface.

This collection of functions offers:

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- Identification of the layer with the max failure

- Identification of layers as they were defined in pre-processing.Calculation of Failure criteria, Reserve Factor and Effort (Tsai-Wu,Puck, etc.)

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- Identification of critical directions.

- Identification and isolation of failed elements.

- Plot of stress tensor results across each element thickness.

- Re-evaluation of failure criteria after modifying material properties.

- Composites results support for Abaqus, Nastran, PAM-Crash, Radiossand PERMAS.

This set of functions is integrated to the complete post-processingenvironment of , therefore, the analyst can end up with anautomatically generated report to be used as a decision making tooltowards the improvement of the product design.

Tight interfacing with CAD- Monitoring of modelupdates.based composites design

On the fly handling of Zonetools, so analysts access theand Ply definitions.same CAD master model of

Propagation of designa composite part in its to-changes and updated ply

be-manufactured state. boundaries back to the Two-way interaction CAD-based design tools.

between designers and Automated calculations,

analysts, allows the multiple graphs and reportiteration of design changes.

generation based on Solver & discipline neutral analysis results

modeling removes all solver Comprehensive

induced restrictions. identification of layers and Parallelized modeling for propagation of the

numerous solvers. identification informationthroughout the process.

Deal with composite partsproperties and detailed Results evaluation withcomposite lay-up direct references to thedescriptions, with the level initial materials of the designof abstraction required by process.each analysis type.

High level of automation Handle full-model built-up of and customization.

models comprised of a Incorporation of laminates

large number of parts, of adesign into optimizationvariety of materials and cycle.

properties, and joined by Designers and analysts stillnumerous connections of

focus on their domain ofdifferent type.expertise, using their own

Building and handling of software tools.model variants.

Benefits



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Full-product simulation

ANSA pre-processor and ETA post-processor software suite has a provenrecord of complete CAE model buildup and analysis results handling.The software meets the Industry's requirements and exceeds legacyprocedures expectations, due to the level of automation andcustomization they offer. The implementation of laminates modeling andanalysis functionality into ANSA and ETA, with full product modelhandling capabilities, enables analysts to:

build and handle model variants,

- assemble models using a large number of standardand customizable connection types, and

- perform multidisciplinary modeling and processing ofanalysis results for numerous FEA solvers and analysistypes.

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- handle efficiently the model updates,

Optimization

The capability of ANSA and to be coupled with numerous optimizers and the ability to return the designand properties changes to the CAD-based composites design tools, allow the design of products, whichinclude parts made of composite materials, to be easily optimized.

courtesy of PENSO Technology Ltd and Delta Motorsport Ltd

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