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SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium has the ability to perform a composite analysis. Users can perform a Linear Static, Buckling or Frequency analysis with composite materials.

The Dynamic Design Analysis Method (DDAM) is a methodology developed by the U.S. Navy for testing shock loading from underwater explosions. Both Altair HyperWorks and SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium can test your designs using this method.

When setting up a structural simulation study, it never seems like you have ALL the information you need. Without exception, you’ll have to be content with making approximations and assumptions. Absent or unreliable material data is one key area that virtually all simulation users will need to question.

Strictly speaking, there is no rigorous way of knowing for sure that the mesh you have chosen yields a good result, but the following techniques are some of the most popular ways that I have come across for building significant confidence that it’s adequate and reliable.

Have you ever leaned back on the backrest of your chair, and then realize that you didn’t have a backrest? Though this “simulation” can be comedic for onlookers, if you try to simulate this type of event using a Static analysis (included in SolidWorks Simulation) you will either a get an error messages, or it will send your model into outer space. So how do you stabilize your model?

SOLIDWORKS Simulation has many great features to help you find data about your assemblies. One of which is the motion study. The motion study allows you to create simple animations of how your assembly moves. A more realistic simulation using motors, springs, and gravity can be defined using the basic motion option. 

If you have ever performed a 100% beam element study in SOLIDWORKS Simulation, then you will have likely run into the issue that when you create a mesh, the dialog box does not show up with meshing options. The beam elements are meshed the exact same way every time.

 

There are a few enhancements and tweaks that either didn’t make it into the What’s New guide or might be placed in a section that you may have missed. This article will show the somewhat obscure changes in SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2020.

Access to the Simulation evaluator is located under the main Simulation tab in the SOLIDWORKS Command Manager or from the right-click menu at the top of the Simulation Design Tree. New in SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2020 we have a utility called the Simulation Evaluator