Structural Engineer

Structural Engineer equips the Design Engineer with all the tools needed to efficiently conduct structural linear static, frequency, buckling, steady-state thermal simulation and modal dynamic response of product designs within 3DEXPERIENCE. 

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You want to Perform linear structural and steady state thermal simulations during the design process.

You have onboarded in the following roles: 3DSwymer and Collaborative Industry Innovator (pages are located in the ENOVIA User Community).

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Onboarding: 14

🧑‍🏫 Your learning path starts here

Learn how to use the multiple Simulation apps that expand the simulation capabilities for CATIA users, enabling you to leverage 3D CAD data and automatically transfer study data into the simulation apps on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

Getting Started with Physics Simulation 

This interactive course is intended for on-demand learning and is the prerequisite for many physics simulation courses (if you are new to using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform). Using physics simulation apps on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform requires a baseline knowledge of how to log in to the platform, use 3DSearch to find and filter data, explore the data and manage maturity for the purpose of collaboration. The 3DEXPERIENCE native (desktop) apps and web interfaces (including dashboards) will be introduced in this course.

Key Concepts Covered:
📌 Search for and explore physical products and simulation objects
📌 Manage maturity of data on the platform, track revisions, and delete example data
📌 Configure preferences and settings

Structural Simulation Essentials

This course is an introduction to structural simulation on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform using the Structural Scenario Creation or Mechanical Scenario Creation app. The basics of Finite Element Modeling with the Structural Model Creation app and post processing with the Physics Results Explorer app are included to provide an end-to-end view of the simulation process. You can use geometry imported/created on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform or designed with SOLIDWORKS.

Key Concepts Covered:
📌 Create complete Finite Element models for structural and thermal simulations
📌 Perform structural (linear and nonlinear; statics and dynamics) and thermal simulations
📌 View and evaluate simulation results

Practice SIMULIA Linear Structural Scenario Creation

This course is an introduction to structural and thermal simulations for engineers and designers with the Linear Structural Scenario Creation app on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. It teaches you how to solve linear structural analyses in preparation for evaluating the performance of products during the product development stage.

Key Concepts Covered:
📌 Create a static perturbation, frequency, linear dynamic, or steady-state thermal simulation
📌 Apply materials and control mesh display for the finite element model
📌 Define loads and restraints, bolt loads and contact for a simulation
📌 Run the simulation and review the results

Practice SIMULIA Structural Model Creation

This course is an introduction to finite element modeling with the Structural Model Creation app on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. It teaches you how to prepare Finite Element Models for simulation. This includes meshing, material assignment and section properties, and defining connections or rigid bodies.

Key Concepts Covered:
📌 Create complete Finite Element Models for structural and thermal simulations
📌 Define meshes including solid, shell/surface and beam elements
📌 Mesh checking and element/node groups
📌 Create materials and properties
📌 Define connectors, virtual bolts, fasteners, rigid bodies and analytical rigid surfaces (ARS)

Practice SIMULIA Physics Results Explorer

The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform offers a rich variety of simulation tools and provides a new paradigm in results visualization. This course is an introduction to the high-performance visualization tool in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform that allows simulation analysts and engineers to view and evaluate simulation results.

Key Concepts Covered:
📌 View and evaluate simulation results

Practice SIMULIA Physics Simulation Review

This course teaches you how to view lightweight simulation data with the Physics Simulation Review widget in the 3DEXPERIENCE
platform dashboard interface. If the native apps user has generated experience content, the reviewer will be able to browse: the mesh,
material assignments, scenario content (such as loads and restraints), and results. Results display can include contour plots,
streamlines, sensors and charts. You can animate these lightweight results and change way objects in the plots are displayed.

Key Concepts Covered:
📌 Generate experience content for the lightweight simulation viewers
📌 Perform lightweight visualization through web browsers

3DEXPERIENCE Simulation Primer for Abaqus/CAE Users

This 1-day course is intended to help experienced Abaqus/CAE users transition to simulation on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The course provides a high-level introduction to the complete simulation workflow on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, and for each step compares back to the approach in Abaqus/CAE, allowing users to leverage their existing knowledge, whilst highlighting some key advantages of simulation on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Key Concepts Covered:
📌 Leverage Abaqus/CAE knowledge to start to navigate the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
📌 Understand key differences in the simulation workflow on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
📌 Create and run a simulation and evaluate the simulation results

Parametric Design Improvement: Structural

Design improvement studies allow engineers to find the best design while varying design parameters. Using the Parametric Design Study Essentials or Parametric Design Study app, you can easily author, monitor and postprocess a parametric design improvement study based on an analysis case for a single physics simulation object or a geometrical model. Physics simulations from which the user initiates a study can be either: structural analysis case or durability analysis case.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Create a design improvement study, defining design variables and objective(s)
📌 Perform design space checks and run the study
📌 Monitor and review study results

Practice SIMULIA Structural Model Creation: Geometry and Meshing

This course provides in-depth treatment of cleaning/repairing geometry for generating high quality Finite Element Models with the Structural Model Creation app on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. It provides a comprehensive discussion on meshing relevant to structural simulation, including surface meshing, partitioning, rule-based meshing, transformation meshing, importing meshes and checking meshes.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Clean and repair native and imported geometry.
📌 Use advanced meshing techniques.

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