MSC Software

Products Overview

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 MSC Software - Pioneering Innovation

Structural Analysis Nonlinear Finite Element

Thermo-fluid Analysis Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI)

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 MSC Software - Advancing Innovation

Multi-physics Multi-body Dynamics

Fatigue & Durability Control Systems Simulation

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MSC Software’s Productivity Tools

Process Automation Virtual Test Drive

Co-Simulation Interoperability Across Simulation Tools

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 MSC Software’s Industry Leading Capabilities
Strength,
rigidity, Non-Linear
vibration, Structural
fatigue &
Multi-Body thermal
Dynamic
Motion Explicit, Transient,
Dynamic,
Multi-physics
Autonomous
Vehicles

VIRES
CAE Simulation Modelling
Manufacturing;
Metal forming,
forging, welding;
additive

Fluid &
Thermal
Materials
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Modelling
Acoustics &
Noise
 MSC Apex

What is it:
• New CAE Platform
• Efficient geometry cleanup and editing, midsurfacing, hexmeshing
• Easy to learn, fun to use
• Integrated solver with analysis readiness checking
• Innovative dynamics postprocessing
• Python scripting interface

Benefit:
• Reduce time from CAD model to FEM mesh drastically
• Get started with FEM fast, due to intuitive user interface
• Get insights into dynamic behavior of system with less analyses

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 MSC Apex Generative Design

What is it:
• Efficient optimization for additive manufacturing
• Consideration of AM design rules
• Meshless
• Stress oriented
• Result is automatically smooth and export-ready

Benefit:
• No intermediate manual steps
• Very easy to use
• Can import the resulting geometries in Simufact Additive
or Digimat AM to continue with 3d-printing simulation

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 MSC Nastran

What is it:
• Structural analysis software with 60-year history
• Strong dynamics analysis (frequency response, transient,
random response, rotordynamics, acoustics, etc.)
• High performance for very large models
• Nonlinear analysis with many assets for contact analysis,
nonlinear materials, composite progressive failure, coupled thermal-mechanical
• Integrated optimization (design, shape, topology, topometry, topography)

Benefit:
• Standard for FEM in aero and auto industry
• Multidisciplinary, no need to switch between solvers
• Fast, efficient, broad range of features

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 Patran

What is it:
• CAE pre- and postprocessor grown with MSC Nastran for > 30 years
• Robust meshing algorithms
• Strong in detail modeling
• Much existing user-customization
• Support for other solvers
• Extensive postprocessing features
• Includes Patran/Thermal solver, strengths: radiation viewfactors,
convection, user subroutines

Benefit:
• Good MSC Nastran support
• Broad range of features, “everything can be done somehow”

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 Marc

What is it:
• Nonlinear structural analysis software
• Coupled thermal-mechanical-electromagnetic
• Robust contact analysis
• Extensive nonlinear material models, e.g. elastomers, soil, powder metals
• Works also for highly nonlinear models due to automatic remeshing

Benefit:
• Standard for analysis of seals, elastomer bearings, etc.
• Allows nonlinear analyses which would otherwise not be possible
• Allows also manufacturing simulations

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 Dytran

What is it:
• Explicit nonlinear structural analysis software
• Simulates high-velocity events like explosions, weapons, airbags, hydroplaning, ditching, birdstrike, fluid-filling,
sloshing, drop test
• Both Lagrangian and Eulerian solvers are available and coupled
• Parts of Dytran are integrated in MSC Nastran as sol 700

Benefit:
• Frequently used in defense industry
• Strong fluid-structure coupling
• Robust explicit analysis

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 Actran

What is it:
• Acoustic simulation software based on the Finite and Infinite Element Method
• Able to solve vibro-acoustic and aero-acoustic problems
• With efficient implementation and highly scalable solver
• Strong pre- & post-processing dedicated to acoustics

Benefit:
• High-performance solution for better acoustic design for
auto, aero, machinery, consumer electronics and others
• Broad range of features for acoustics, vibro-acoustics
and aero-acoustics
• Supported by a team of acoustic simulation experts

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 CAEfatigue

What is it:
• State-of-the-art random response and fatigue solver
• Predict how long products will last under loading
• Allows flexible loading with mixed random and
deterministic inputs including static loading
• Simple definition of random loads input for fatigue
• Calculate collision probability within assemblies
• Fatigue of spot welds, seam welds, plastic
connectors

Benefit:
• Efficient vibration fatigue analysis also for very large
models
• Easy test versus analysis correlations
• Easy transformation between time and frequency
domain

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 Adams

What is it:
• Multibody dynamics simulation
• Compute loads and forces as input for FEA
• Can use control systems (interface to Easy5, Matlab, FMI)
• Convenient definition of flexible bodies in different levels of
accuracy, up to full co-simulation with nonlinear FEM
• Efficient verticals and wizards for typical industry applications (next slide)
• Adams Real Time module for integration with hardware in the loop or driving simulators

Benefit:
• Standard for analysis of landing gears, automotive suspension systems etc.
• Reliable, robust, accurate Adams Solver provides answers when others cannot

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 Adams Verticals and Toolkits

What is it:
• Industry-specific solutions in Adams
• Adams/Car, Chassis, Driveline offer pre-defined templates
for the components: quickly build and test functional virtual
prototypes of complete vehicles and vehicle subsystems
• Adams/Machinery: wizard for modeling gears, bearings,
cams, electric motors, belts, cables, chains in virtual
machine prototypes
• Adams/Drill predicts the dynamic behavior of a drill string
• Adams/Gear AT for detail analysis of gears – static,
dynamic, tooth microgeometry, dedicated contact algorithm

Benefit:
• Easy-to-use wizard interfaces
• Industry-specific problems are solved by dedicated tools

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 Co-Simulation

What is it:
• Full co-simulation (results between different analysis
types are exchanged in every step)
• Alternatively: chained simulation (after one analysis
has finished, another analysis uses its results)
• Multibody – Structural, Multibody – Fluid, Structural –
Fluid, Fluid – Acoustics, Multibody – Acoustics,
Structural- Acoustics, or combination of > 2 types...
• Practical and user-friendly

Benefit: CFD - Acoustics

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 Co-Simulation Example: Adams-Marc

What is it:
• Adams multibody simulation co-simulates with Marc nonlinear FEM
• 1 Adams model co-simulates with 1 or more Marc models
• Accuracy and results beyond standard flexible bodies:
− For applications involving high deformation of viscoelastic
materials or thermomechanical effects
− When run-time re-meshing of the flexible body is required
• Examples: seal-mechanism interaction (window, sunroof, door),
bushings, engine mounts, windshield wiper chatter, suspension
component buckling in high load event

Benefit:
• FEA engineer can study components with realistic boundary conditions
• Save computational costs for Marc users

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 Easy5

What is it:
• Simulates control systems
• Complex dynamic systems in schematic (1D) form
• Gas dynamics, pneumatics, environmental control systems
• Multiphase fluid, hydraulics, thermal hydraulics, fuel systems
• Can be coupled with Matlab, Simulink, Adams, etc.

Benefit:
• Easy flowchart-based modeling
• Open architecture

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 Sinda

What is it:
• Advanced thermal simulation
• Resistor-capacitor network
• Efficient radiation view factor calculation and visualization
• Interface to Thermica to simulate spacecraft in orbit
• Micro functions and subroutines
• Thermostats, solar loads, thermal electric devices

Benefit:
• Fast radiation methods
• Select from a broad range of thermal loads which
can be modeled exactly

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 SimManager

What is it:
• Simulation process and data management
• Web-browser based user interface
• Automation reduces manual execution of
repetitive simulation tasks and processes
• Job submit, data storage, extract and compare
results, report generation, search
• Suitable for integration with PDM
• Configurable for special needs of large simulation
departments, preconfigured for smaller companies

Benefit:
• Open architecture, not limited to MSC’s own software
• Standardization and establishment of best practices, traceability of data and processes

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 Material Center

What is it:
• Material data management, browser based,
with user access levels
• Material lifecycle management
• Several material databases can be acquired
with Material Center, own data can be entered
• Supports formats of major CAE solvers
• Excel export, curve viewer, apply equations,
data comparison

Benefit:
• Traceable data from test to design & simulation
• Integrates customer’s material processes
• Strong comparison & differencing capabilities

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 Short Fiber Reinforced Plastics
Digimat
Long Fiber Thermoplastics

What is it:
• Simulates and optimizes the performance of
reinforced plastics components and systems
• Interfaces to injection molding software and FEM solvers
• When coupled to nonlinear FEM solver, it updates Woven Composites
the fiber orientations during nonlinear FEM analysis,
accounting for local microstructure,
strain-rate dependency, thermo-dependency
• Digimat VA (Virtual Allowables): virtual tests replace or Courtesy of:
reduce physical coupon tests for composites

Benefit:
• Minimize weight, cost and time-to-market for
optimal plastics / composite parts

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 Digimat Additive

What is it:
• Simulates the 3d printing process for plastics
• Anticipate printing issues with simulation
• Supported additive manufacturing processes: SLS, FFF
• Materials: filled & unfilled polymers
• Predictions: warpage and residual stresses,
micro/meso structure
• Supports an optimized additive manufacturing
workflow for Stratasys customers

Benefit:
• Reduce trial & error; less prototypes needed
• Predict the printed part performance as
function of the material and print parameters

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 Simufact Forming & Welding

What is it:
• Forming simulation for cold forming, hot forging,
sheet metal forming, open die forging, rolling, ring rolling,
heat treatment, mechanical joining
• Welding simulation for resistance spot, laser, electron beam,
arc welding, brazing
• Custom, dedicated wizard interface that uses the shop floor terminology
and process parameters
• Based on the strong Marc and Dytran solvers

Benefit:
• Reduce stresses and distortions in the product which result from the
manufacturing process
• Optimize process and machine parameters without physical tests

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 Simufact Additive

What is it:
• Simulate metal 3d printing (powder bed fusion)
• Mechanical, thermal and thermo-mechanical simulation
• Calculate the deformation of the final part and reduce / avoid distortion automatically
• Optimize the support structure
• Identify manufacturing issues
LightHinge+
• Determine the best build orientation
• Condition the part also after heat treatment, base plate and support structure removal

Benefit:
• Reduces stresses and distortions in the product which result
from the manufacturing process
• Replace physical by virtual tests – speed up 3d printing process

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 Cradle CFD

What is it:
• CFD, thermo-fluid analysis
• Structured and unstructured mesh, overset mesh Sub, Trans & Supersonic Flow

• Strong with model preparation and meshing

Benefit:
• Overset mesh allows simulations also for geometries
where mesh would get strongly distorted
• Strong for rotating components

Courtesy of Professor Tanabe from Waseda

What is it:
• Romax stands for ROtating MAchinery
eXperts
• complete simulation platform for
engineering the next generation of
electro-mechanical drive systems
• 6 focussed products that align with the
drivetrain and transmission development
cycle, with workflows and ways of
working streamlined to specific users

Benefit:
• all based on the same model or file
• interfaces to other tools that are used by
our customers
• industry-leading expertise and
unparalleled customer support

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 CADLM ODYSSEE

What is it:
• Artificial intelligence for CAE
• From available analysis or test results, predict responses for further parameter combinations
• Easy-to-use GUI
• Generate and view time-histories
• Generate animations (write and view hdf5, d3plot etc.)
• Few data points needed. Can also suggest improved DOE (set of base points)
• Lots of plot options (regression, correlation, etc.)

Benefit:
• Interesting e.g. for highly nonlinear analyses which take long time;
ODYSSEE delivers the response in seconds
• Better understanding of the influence of model parameters
• Optimization, e.g. adapt analysis model to test result curve

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 Thank you!

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