Design pneumatic systems and predict their behaviors for a large range of industrial applications

The Modelica based Pneumatics Library enables the modeling and simulation of pneumatics systems using gas and especially compressed air, such as industrial machines, pneumatic brakes or suspension systems for transportation industry as well as cooling and engine bleed air systems for aerospace. It addresses the needs of development engineers for designing and finding the right solutions for their pneumatics systems in a multi-disciplinary engineering approach, including control and mechanical models in the same environment. Ready-to-use components enable to rapidly design pneumatic systems and predict their different behaviors, from early concept studies through to detailed control system design and implementation.

Benefits

• Accelerate development convergence by enabling fast simulations within a complex multi-physics system

• Minimize costs through reduced need for physical prototype testing

• Simplification in design processes by easily composing pneumatic systems with other disciplines and bringing a common understanding of the system behavior

• Asses and validate control laws, as well as component dimensioning for pneumatic systems from conceptual design to validation phases

Highlights

• Provide gas models and interface with Modelica Standard Library media

• Comprehensive list of animated components including valves, reservoirs, actuators, piping, sensors and pneumatic sources, using the ISO1219 standardized icons

• Thermal management is available on components

• System and component design in the same applications, with the usage of other libraries

• Modeling level can be adapted to achieve more accuracy or speed the simulation