At the heart of Simcenter 3D is a centralized working environment for pre-/post-processing of all Simcenter 3D solutions for structural, dynamics, composites, durability, acoustics, thermal, flow, motion, optimization and electromagnetics. This integrated environment helps you to achieve faster CAE processes and streamline multidiscipline simulations that integrate any of the Simcenter 3D solutions together, like thermal-mechanical, vibro-acoustic or other more complex analyses. Simcenter 3D’s pre/post helps you to:

• Quickly and intuitively edit, defeature and abstract geometry
• Build any kind of mesh with comprehensive meshing tools
• Efficiently create and manage finite element (FE) assemblies
• Create, run and evaluate simulation models for multiple common third-party CAE solvers
• Efficiently launch and monitor simulations remotely

Simulate structures to understand how they perform for stress, deformation and more. Structural analysis solutions within Simcenter 3D are powered by the well-known Simcenter Nastran solver and can help you accurately simulate the following types of solutions:

• Linear analysis
• Multistep nonlinear analysis

Understand, analyze and improve structural dynamics response. Simcenter 3D structural dynamics solutions help you to efficiently understand and avoid excessive vibrations and stresses. Dedicated capabilities available within the structural dynamics solution include:

• Structural dynamics
• Noise, vibration and harshness (NVH)
• Rotor dynamics
• Response dynamics

Minimize noise and optimize sound quality through acoustic simulation. Simcenter 3D includes dedicated acoustic modeling capabilities, efficient solvers and easy-to-interpret visualization and auralization tools that allow you to quickly gain insight into a design’s acoustic performance for uncoupled acoustics, coupled vibro-acoustics and aero-acoustic applications. Specific acoustics capabilities include:

• Finite Element Modeling (FEM) and Boundary Elements (BEM) solutions
• Aeroacoustics and aero-vibro-acoustics
• Ray acoustics

Perform in-depth fatigue and lifing analysis through an integrated suite of tools to support fatigue design in all stages of development. This includes easy-to-use wizards for strength and fatigue in the design phase; fatigue information on the current simulated part; detailed analysis of complex load scenarios, including weldments and connections; and new materials and manufacturing processes. Specific capabilities for durability include:

• Fatigue strength analysis
• Weld fatigue
• Composite fatigue

Simulate multibody dynamics to engineer performance for moving mechanisms. Simcenter 3D includes a complete and robust set of capabilities to support all aspects of advanced dynamic, static and kinematics motion simulation. The early use of motion simulation is key to evaluating mechanism performance to increase design confidence and reduce risks. Specific capabilities include:

• Rigid body and flexible body dynamics
• Control system integration
• Drivetrain, transmission and gears
• Interference checking
• Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL)
• Time waveform replication
• Driving dynamics
• Tire model integration

Integrate low-frequency electromagnetic solutions to achieve excellent performance. Simcenter 3D includes a comprehensive set of capabilities that provide insight into diverse design challenges, such as the performance of electromechanical components and energy conversion.

Leverage the full benefit of a fully integrated design-simulation-test package. With our simulation and test integration tools you can now use simulation to optimize your physical test setups, reduce the number of required sensors, and generate data for locations where physcial sensors can not be placed. The capabilities this package provides will enable you to reduce test set up time, reduce the number of tests required, and improve your data collection. Then with the help of reduced order models you can run your simulations into the future to study the durability of the product over its lifetime and more:

• Improve simulation model accuracy by correlating results with physical test data
• Gain insight into your inaccessible mechanical components with smart virtual sensors
• Optimize your designs structurally or complete lifing analysis with estimated operational loads in the time domain
• Increase test team productivity by determining sensor and exciter locations before performing physical modal tests
• Reduce costs by using smart virtual sensors to estimate when maintenance is needed
• Leverage knowledge gained from digital twin models throughout the product lifecycle, optimizing investment

Simcenter 3D is a complete solution for modeling nonlinear and transient heat transfer phenomena. Dedicated thermal modeling capabilities help you rapidly create thermal connections, select the right physical model and define the right loads and boundary conditions. Simcenter 3D thermal analysis solutions include these specific capabilities:

• Conduction heat transfer
• Convection heat transfer
• Radiation heat transfer
• Conjugate heat transfer
• Space-systems thermal

Integrate domain solutions to solve real-world problems. Simcenter 3D streamlines multiphysics simulation through a common engineering desktop that is used for pre- and post-processing of multiple disciplines. Through this integrated platform, you can more easily perform multiphysics simulations such as thermal-fluid, thermo-mechanical, fluid-structure interaction, vibroacoustics, aero-vibro-acoustics, electromagnetic-thermal and electromagnetic-vibro-acoustic. Simcenter 3D also supports both weak and strong coupling depending on the physics types involved. Simcenter 3D performs multiphysics simulations using these different methods:

• One-way data exchange
• Two-way data exchange
• Integrated coupled solutions

Print your part right the first time. Simcenter 3D additive manufacturing capabilities can help you predict distortions and defects before you ever print any parts, thereby reducing the number of test prints and improving the quality of your final print. Specific capabilities in the additive manufacturing solution include:

• Simulate powder-bed fusion build process
• Geometry compensation based on results

Improve and optimize your product designs. Simcenter 3D software optimization solutions relieve the burden of improving product designs by automating the iterative process. This enables you to compare your design’s performance against specifications. It also enables you to start at topology optimization and extend to design space exploration with more classical parametric optimization capabilities. Specific design space exploration and optimization capabilities include:

• Integrated design-space exploration
• Topology optimization
• FE parameter optimization

Trace all of your team’s simulation work and data in a product development context. You can use Simcenter 3D in a seamlessly managed environment integrated with Teamcenter software. When Simcenter 3D is used with Teamcenter integration, you can create, store and access your product simulation data in a Teamcenter database. It combines the power of Simcenter 3D in multiphysics modeling with the power of Teamcenter in storing and retrieving data in a controlled fashion. Capabilities include:

• Integration with Teamcenter simulation
• Rules-based assembly management

Understand how flexible pipes, hoses and cables will react when your part moves. Simcenter 3D includes applications dedicated to helping you simulate the behavior of how flexible pipes, hoses and cables will move and bend within your moving assembly. This application helps you determine and simulate mounting scenarios and calculate initial positions of flexible pipes. Specific capabilities supported include:

• Rubber-like hoses
• Electric cables and wire harnesses
• Mounting scenarios
• Initial and operating positions
• Forces and moments
• Collision and interference checking
• Optimize position and orientation
• Linear and nonlinear dynamics