Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Consulting

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Consulting Services

Sim3's comprehensive and sophisticated Finite Element Analysis (FEA) testing and advanced validation tools can improve your products by:

• Studying the performance of your designs for excessive deflections and stresses under dynamic loads.
• Performing nonlinear analysis–including impact–on plastics, rubbers, polymers, and foam.
• Conducting contact analysis coupled with nonlinear materials.
• Evaluating the behavior of composite materials.

Our FEA Analysis Expertise Includes:

	Assembly Simulation: We study the interactions of assembly components on-screen, before incurring the costs of physical prototypes. Simulate static or dynamic loads to evaluate your design's performance under stress, strain, and displacement.
	Simulate Welded Structures: Will your welded structures perform at peak operating conditions? We apply pressure, forces and bearing loads, then use visualization tools like section plots, ISO clipping and animation to review the response.
	Tolerance Stack-Up Analysis: We can help verify dimensioning and tolerancing schemes to ensure proper fit and function. It eliminates the need for hand calculations and manual entry of dimensions and tolerances.
	Motion Simulation and Analysis: We can help you size motors and actuators, determine power consumption, understand gear drives, and determine how contacting parts behave. We check for colliding parts and output numerical and graphic data of the results, as well as animations of your tests.
	Nonlinear Dynamics: We can test and validate your designs with advanced capabilities including nonlinear displacement analysis and analysis of nonlinear materials, as well as dynamic response analysis of parts and assemblies.
	Simulate Plastic Parts: Capture all the behavior of your plastic parts. We can also simulate your plastic components in all possible tests and environments, and optimize parts for volume and cost.
	Simulate Forced Vibrations: We can predict and control vibrations or dynamic responses in your products with a choice of design studies, including Transient study, Harmonic Response study, and Random Response study.
	Compare and Optimize Alternatives. We can help you determine the best design option by comparing strengths, life, cost, and weight.
	Failure Prediction: Save the time and prototyping costs while creating safer, more durable products. We can use simulation to predict structural failure thresholds due to yielding, overheating, buckling, and fatigue.
	Simulate Drop Test or Impact. Save time and cost by reducing the number of physical tests.  We can perform realistic collision simulation between parts or assemblies.
	Predict Buckling or Collapse. We can virtually apply forces, pressure and gravity to your designs to determine maximum loads before buckling. We can also study the effects of various materials as well as isotopic and orthotropic factors.
	Simulate Heating or Cooling. We can study the effect of heat on your designs, studying thermal boundary conditions, fluid flow, thermal-structural interactions, and radiation effects in high-temperature applications.
	Simulate Repeated Loading: We can simulate, evaluate, and improve a part or assembly that has to stand up to daily use. We evaluate responses to varying speeds or frequencies, and estimate the design life of your entire product.