Creo Elements/Direct Finite Element Analysis
A Powerful Tool for Quickly Performing Structural, Buckling, Thermal, and Frequency Analyses
Creo Elements/Direct Finite Element Analysis gives you all the power you need to simulate real-life mechanical and thermal stresses on products within Creo Elements/Direct Modeling. Now you can easily identify and resolve design issues using analysis - and even make it part of your daily 3D CAD design activities.
Benefits
Set up, analyze and save analysis parameters as a studies directly with the model, allowing for quick reuse and easier design team communication
Analyze and digitally prototype individual parts or entire assemblies to improve design for structural integrity
Conduct standard analyses on product designs, including linear, static, modal, buckling and steady-state thermal analysis
Incorporate stress, strain, deformation and temperature distribution throughout your product design with combined thermal and structural analysis in any study
Analyze both thin-walled and sheetmetal parts with shell elements for faster calculation of analyses
Achieve faster realization of optimal designs, identify both failure-prone and over-engineered components and products, and reduce physical prototyping costs
Conduct extensive trade-off studies upfront in the development process, and yield downstream benefits, including increased design quality, reduced time-to-market, reduced cost of goods sold, and reduced warranty exposure
Capabilities
Execute all analyses within the Creo Elements/Direct Modeling environment
Set up and store loads and boundary conditions, and assign material types directly with the part or assembly data
Store multiple studies of the same part or assembly data for future analyses of the model
Leverage automatic meshing and solving for parts and assemblies
Visualize parts in full-color, which clearly shows stress, strain, displacement, etc.
Store results with the part
Document results by within an HTML document including the analysis data and animated pictures
Analyze stress levels, displacements, and resonant frequencies of designs (supported cases include: linear static structural analysis, linear buckling and normal modes)
Analyze thermal cases such as steady state thermal, solving for temperature and flux, loads and Boundary Conditions (LBCs)
Assign LBCs directly to part or assembly, including:
Vertex, edges, and face loads
Spin, gravity, acceleration, and part temperature
Face pressure loads
Translational constraints and enforced displacements (XYZ) for vertex, edge, or face
Heat flow, heat generation, free convection, fixed temperature
Standard database including over 900 commonly used materials, such as various types of steel, aluminum and plastics
Modify material parameters or add more materials to the material database
Generate volumetric meshes automatically, using technology provided by MSC Software Corporation – Tetrahedral linear or quadratic order adaptive h-element technology – P-element technology
Automatically create shell-elements tailored for sheet metal part analysis
Generate surface mesh with triangular or quadratic h-elements
Export mesh with or without LBC data as a PATRANneutral file
Apply mesh conditions to the part or assembly, and control local mesh density
Solve cases with unlimited nodes and unlimited mesh size. Solving based on the latest h- and p-elements technology from industry-leader MSC Software Corporation