Simcenter 3D Structures is a bundle combining the Simcenter 3D Engineering Desktop, Simcenter Nastran environment, and the Simcenter Nastran Basic solver. This bundle allows customers to build designs from scratch or import the geometry, pre-process CAE model, and solve (individually or in multiple solutions in sequence) with following solvers depending on the required analysis type:
-Linear Static (SOL 101): steady-state displacements, stresses, strains, and rotations
-Linear Buckling (SOL 105): buckling modes, critical buckling loads
-Basic Implicit Nonlinear Static (SOL 106): displacements, stresses, strains, rotations, refined critical buckling loads
-Nonlinear and Linear Transient Response (SOL 129): time-varying displacements, stresses, strains, rotations under linear and non-linear conditions
-Normal Model (SOL 103): modes, natural frequencies, displacements, stresses, rotations, reaction force, reaction moment
-Steady State Heat Transfer (SOL 153): steady-state temperature gradient, heat flow
-Transient Heat Transfer (SOL 159): time-varying temperature gradient, heat flow.
Simcenter 3D Structures also forms the foundation to which you can (add additional solutions) get multiple add-ons for structural dynamics, multistep nonlinear solver, thermal, flow, acoustics, motion, and optimization, all from a single environment. Another structural solver such as Ansys, Abaqus, LS-DYNA, MSC Nastran can be included as optional, as well as distributed memory parallel (DMP) processing for Nastran.
Applications: any types of structures, including transformer windings, cores, and infrastructure, motors, actuators, etc.