CAD advice on shapes and drapability, definition of the structural concept for the spacer, the materials used and the layup.
PyCAE
Expert in structural design
Located near Nantes (Pays de Loire, France), PyCAE supports your design office in structural calculations (finite element analysis) and provides its expertise to reduce design loops: optimization, linear and non-linear statics, modal analysis.
Finite element analysis (FEA) allows you to simulate the mechanical behavior of an assembly of parts, enabling you to model different variants without generating costly and time-consuming prototype costs.
Structure calculation
Structural design simulates the mechanical behavior of an assembly of parts, or of an individual part, in order to predict and correct unintended behavior: failure under loading, permanent deformation of parts after loading, loss of stiffness (buckling), service life (continuous loads involving the theory of material fatigue), destructive vibration mode, etc. It can therefore be used to optimize the mass, stiffness, strength and service life (among others) of a system for given functions.
Fatigue calculation
Study of part failure under cyclic loading (radiused bore of an internal combustion engine cylinder head)
Optimization
This is the coupling between an optimization loop and load case calculations: it involves defining targets (mass of a part of the system, stiffness in a direction, maximum permitted displacement, minimum safety factor, etc.) which the optimization loop tries to achieve by modifying the shape of the calculated model; the response of this optimization loop is a mesh of the part which corresponds to the given targets.
