It covers everything from standard linear static and modal analyses to more advanced simulations such as thermal, coupled thermo-mechanical, and nonlinear analyses — including contact, elasto-plastic material behavior, and large deformations.
The platform also includes tools for stress linearization, fatigue evaluation, load combination, and linear dynamics in time domain, frequency domain, and random response conditions. This makes it possible to address the full spectrum of design needs — from structural validation to predicting real-world performance.
SimSolid® Applications
SimSolid supports a wide range of engineering analyses, making it an extremely versatile simulation tool.
Realistic Materials for Reliable Models
SimSolid allows for the definition of isotropic, orthotropic, and elasto-plastic material properties, as well as rigid body modeling. This flexibility is essential for accurately simulating both metallic and composite or multilayer components, ensuring reliable results even in highly complex conditions.
Accurate Simulation of Complex Connections
One of SimSolid’s core strengths is its handling of part-to-part connections. The software supports a wide variety of mechanical joints including bonded, sliding, and frictional separable contacts, as well as bolts, welds (spot, seam, laser), rivets, bushings, adhesives, and elastic connectors.
Thanks to its advanced solver technology, these connections are modeled with precision without requiring refined local meshing, significantly reducing model setup time.
Realistic Boundary Conditions for Trustworthy Results
Boundary condition definition is often a challenge in traditional FEM workflows. SimSolid provides a comprehensive set of constraints and loads to accurately replicate real-world conditions, from standard fixed and sliding supports to hinges, concentrated or distributed forces, gravitational, thermal, and inertial loads.
You can apply preload to bolts and nuts, simulate hydrostatic pressure, thermal expansion or contraction, add remote masses, and define inertia relief conditions for dynamic equilibrium simulations.
Full CAD Compatibility and Seamless Workflow Integration
SimSolid is designed to integrate smoothly into existing design workflows. It supports all major CAD and PLM formats including CATIA, NX, Creo, Inventor, Fusion 360, SOLIDWORKS, and more, as well as neutral formats like STEP, Parasolid, ACIS, STL, and PLMXML.
Direct integration is also available with cloud-based platforms such as Onshape and data management systems like Teamcenter, streamlining the transition from CAD model to simulation.
Clear, Accessible, and Engineering-Relevant Results
SimSolid delivers a comprehensive range of results, presented through color contour plots for displacements, stresses, and strains; deformed shape animations; XY graphs; probes; and max/min indicators.
Contact forces, support reactions, bolt and weld loads are computed automatically, as are natural frequencies, mode shapes, and modal participation factors.
The software also provides safety factors and criticality indicators to support robust design validation and informed engineering decisions.
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