Structural analysis software

Eliminate prep work and focus on analysis

Streamline your workflow by eliminating the need for geometry simplification and meshing. Simcenter Simsolid eliminates two of the most time-consuming and error-prone steps in traditional structural analysis. The CAD model serves directly as the simulation model, eliminating the need to create a separate finite element model.

Get results in minutes to seconds

Simcenter Simsolid delivers accurate structural analysis results in seconds to minutes on a standard PC. Quickly compare multiple design scenarios. Improve speed, accuracy, and usability for simulation-driven design across a wide range of industries.

Linear statics analysis

Linear analysis is used to solve static problems, such as determining if a structure will fail under a prescribed load. This analysis is particularly useful for studying structures under static loads, where the loads are applied slowly and remain constant over time.

With the Simcenter Nastran solver, you can simulate both transient and harmonic excitations and use its damping models to choose between direct or forced response.

Buckling

Simcenter can help you predict the load at which a structure will buckle or undergo a sudden change in shape under compressive loads. This helps you identify potential stability issues and optimize designs for slender or thin-walled structures.

Multistep nonlinear analysis

Multistep nonlinear analysis is an advanced solution that provides comprehensive capabilities for geometric nonlinear, contact, plasticity, creep, hyperelasticity and other material behaviors. The multistep solution allows users to set up sequential subcases for preload, nonlinear statics, nonlinear transient, modal, buckling, post
buckling, harmonic modes and frequency response.

Contact

Simcenter lets you simulate nonlinear models that will have contact with itself or other components.

Crash simulation

Understanding the safety implications of design decisions is essential across many industries. Simcenter provides the tools required to bring certainty to engineering simulations including those requiring multiphysics simulation, advanced materials, accurate dummy positioning, and airbag folding.

Aeroelastic flutter

Aeroelastic flutter is a critical phenomenon where an unstable structural oscillation occurs in an airframe caused by resonance frequencies coming from the airstream around the moving aircraft. Engineers need to understand when and where flutter will be a problem. Simcenter includes the tools you need to predict and avoid unwanted flutter, accurately.

Laminate composites

Simcenter is widely used at the world’s most innovative companies to design and optimize products composed of laminate composites. It delivers optimal ply shapes, the optimal number of plies, and the optimal stacking sequence, while observing manufacturing constraints.

Structural analysis for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC)

Structural engineering for buildings and architectural structures demands expertise and precision. Engineers tackle diverse and complex loads, choose materials with unique properties, and design robust foundations to ensure safety and efficiency. They optimize structural systems to withstand extreme events, meet serviceability standards, and comply with strict building codes. Balancing constructability, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability presents ongoing challenges.

Simcenter empowers users to model, analyze, and design any structure—no matter its geometry, material, or loading. Automated framework generators and BIM/DXF import links streamline modeling, while integrated concrete and steel tools drive design, optimization, code compliance, and reporting for maximum productivity.

Concrete

Selecting the ideal concrete design and detailing tool empowers users to streamline their workflow, meet code and safety standards, and feel confident in their engineering solutions.

Simcenter accelerates your project from initial design to final engineering report. As you design and detail reinforced concrete beams, columns, walls, and continuous beams, Simcenter provides instant feedback and ensures compliance with regional codes—all within an intuitive interface. You can effortlessly export comprehensive and transparent design reports, making your entire process faster and more reliable.

Foundations

Analyzing building foundations presents a host of challenges, from complex soil-structure interactions and unpredictable geotechnical properties to accurately assessing bearing capacity and mitigating differential settlement.

Simcenter empowers you to overcome these challenges with a flexible, intuitive, and automated foundation management solution. Effortlessly analyze and design both deep and shallow foundations for any layout, while Simcenter automatically optimizes the underlying finite element model. Benefit from streamlined linear or nonlinear analysis and ensure your foundations meet both geotechnical and structural design codes with ease.