SolidWorks Simulation Premium Nonlinear Training Course

The two-day course provides an overview on a wide range of nonlinear structural/mechanical analysis topics. You will learn how to deal with models that exhibit large displacements and/or yielding, discuss and practice the use of many material models available in SolidWorks Simulation and, most importantly, how to drive a nonlinear analysis to successful completion.

Who should attend: Designed for users who would like to become productive fast, the nonlinear course offers hands-on experience on the use of SolidWorks Simulation nonlinear module. The two-day course provides an overview on a wide range of nonlinear structural/mechanical analysis topics.

Course Outline

Geometric Nonlinearities

• Large displacements problems
• Large strain formulation (rubber-like materials)

Material Nonlinearities

• Nonlinear elasticity
• Hyperelasticity (Mooney-Rivlin, Ogden)
  
• Plasticity (von Mises, isotropic/kinematic/mixed hardening rules)
  
• Temperature dependent material properties
  
• Visco-elasticity and creep
• Contact (Boundary) Nonlinearities
• 3D nonlinear gap/contact analysis (with or without material nonlinearities).

Numerical Procedures

• Solution control techniques (force, displacement, and Arc-Length controls)
• Equilibrium Iterations schemes (Newton-Raphson, modified Newton-Raphson)
• Termination schemes (convergence and divergence criteria)

Special Topics

• Adaptive automatic stepping algorithm
• Prescribed non-zero displacements associated with time curves
• Deformation dependent loading
• Analysis stabilization techniques

Viewing the Results

• Deflected shape plots
• Displacement and stress color filled contour plots
• Animation of deflected shape, displacement, and stress contour plots
• X-Y plots for response quantities Isoplanes and sectioning