VEXTEC's VPS-MICRO® computational software predicts the life of metallic parts by simulating the material’s behavior, and it’s built on three inescapable truths:
• Durability is not a function of applied stress alone, but a combination of stress and the material’s reaction to it.
• The materials used to build complex components and systems are not homogenous.
• Computational cycles are shorter and cheaper than physical testing cycles or prototyping.
Using this foundation, VEXTEC developed VPS-MICRO to be a computational software that accurately and efficiently accounts for a material’s reaction to the stress imparted upon it, its variability and all its various damage mechanisms, its geometry, and the conditions of its usage over time. The result is a time- and condition-based product simulation in 3 dimensions, that reflects the real-world physics of how, when and why damage occurs.
Computational FEA products like Abaqus predict how stress is distributed on a part. However, it’s well known that not all failures occur at the highest stress areas, nor do they originate at the global component level where FEA is applied. Failure is actually a localized process that occurs at the interaction between stress and inhomogeneous material microstructure. VPS-MICRO's algorithms predict the probability of degradation for every simulated microstructural grain. The software also simulates the effects of voids, inclusions, defects, and grain boundaries (all the various features that are derived from real-world processing) to determine how they will react to the stress energy imparted upon them. In short, FEA provides the structural analysis, and VPS-MICRO provides the materials science analysis.
To forecast the durability of component fleets being operated in complex in-service usage scenarios, our software efficiently conducts hundreds of billions of simulations in processing times measured in hours, rather than the months or years that physical testing or prototyping can take.
Take the next step in your product design by adding VPS-MICRO to your CAE arsenal! Check out our software webpage and feel free to reach out to me with any questions.
