Productive Environment for Quick CAE Modeling and Simulation – Visual Environment

The current trend of Product Development Cycle needs to be optimized to meet the growing demand for robustness, quality and fast to market. High competition, mandatory regulations and global norms are forcing the engineers and researchers to evolve with innovative ideas and solutions to meet demands. CAE plays a crucial role in the product development cycle where the FE modelling and simulations are preformed for virtual evaluation of the products. Commercially available CAE tools and software are used for such problems. ESI’s EASi-CRASH application is one of the tools widely used in CAE world mainly by automotive industries. In order to meet such CAE users expectation of fast paced product development, ESI’s Open VTOS (Virtual Try-Out Space) solution provides a platform for achieving the desired productivity and results in the virtual prototyping environment. Visual-Environment (VE) is the major enhancement of EASi-CRASH application. Virtual Prototyping methodology has made significant contribution in enhancing the productivity, reliability, usability and robustness. VE is an integrated suite of solutions, which has different contexts seamlessly linked for Crash and Safety simulation. Visual- Crash DYNA (VCD)-a pre processor for LS-DYNA, Visual-SAFE-an advanced pre-processor for safety features, Visual-Mesh a general purpose mesher, Visual-Viewer (VVI)-a general purpose plotting and simulation application, Visua-Life Nastran (VLN)-a general purpose pre processor for NASTRAN, Visual-Process Executive-an application for process customization and repetitive tasks automation are the contexts to name a few. This paper describes the key modelling features and usefulness of Visual-Environment in Crash and Safety simulation with productivity examples and process automation.