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Taking into account non-linear material behavior, TEA Mecano users can analyze the quasi- static behavior of 3D structures from CATIA V5 environment. They can easily obtain the Von Mises stresses, plastic strains, contact pressure and successive configurations. A variety of boundary conditions (clamp, surface slider, advanced restraint, iso-static restraint, enforced displacement, ...) and mechanical loading (distributed force, moment, force density...) is available.
With TEA, SAMTECH enables CATIA V5 users to perform advanced non-linear mechanical analysis using SAMCEF Mecano and thermal analysis using SAMCEF Thermal. These new products allow designers, mechanical engineers, stress engineers and thermal engineers to predict the complete functional performances of their products, very early in the design process and directly from their familiar CATIA V5 environment.
Fully associative and completely integrated with the CATIA Generative Part Structural Analysis (GPS), TEA Mecano enables CATIA V5 users to quickly produce non-linear models by adding specific features to an existing GPS model. With TEA Mecano, the CATIA V5 users benefit from extended non-linear solving capabilities in a transparent environment, speeding up the design work and eliminating the expensive iterations during the design process thanks to the use of a single user interface for the geometry definition and the Finite Element pre-and post-processing.
TEA Mecano is based on SAMCEF Mecano, the non-linear mechanical module of the general Finite Element package SAMCEF. Flexible-flexible contact conditions with large relative displacements, large deformations and elasto-plastic materials are the main features of this first release. Further advanced behavior such as, i.e. hyper-elastic, visco-elastic, visco-plastic, materials, rigid and flexible kinematical joints will be very soon integrated in the forthcoming releases. |
