Structural Mechanics Engineer

Structural Mechanics Engineer is a role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform that contains the multiple Simulation focused apps that enables comprehensive structural simulations to be ran directly on your 3D CAD designs using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for secure data storage, management and collaboration.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Your profile

You need to perform structural validations of your designs in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. You need to be able to replicate real-life conditions of your product in a digital environment to test its performance.​​​​​​​

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

⌚ Estimated time

Onboarding: 90 hours

🧑‍🏫 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 Mechanical Scenario Creation: Linear Dynamics

This course is an introduction to linear dynamics simulation with the Mechanical Scenario Creation app on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. It covers how to solve linear dynamics problems including natural frequency extraction, harmonic response, random response, response spectrum and model dynamic applications. It also introduces interior structural-acoustic problems and complex eigenvalue analysis.

Key Concepts Covered:
📌 Perform linear dynamics simulations
📌 Perform coupled structural-acoustic simulations
📌 View and evaluate simulation results

Practice SIMULIA Structural Scenario Creation

This course is an introduction to structural and thermal simulation with the Structural Scenario Creation app on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. It teaches you how to solve both linear and nonlinear static problems and basic linear dynamics problems.

Key Concepts Covered:
📌 Perform structural simulations (linear and nonlinear; statics and dynamics)
📌 Perform thermal simulations
📌 View and evaluate simulation 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

3DEXPERIENCE Structural Mechanics Engineer - Associate

This certification validates your knowledge and skills in the Structural Mechanics Engineer role within the 3DEXPERIENCE SIMULIA physics simulation environment. You will be asked multiple-choice questions (MCQ) on physics simulations using the Mechanical Scenario app. To complete meshing and modeling and explore results; the additional tools in the Structural Model Creation app and the Physics Results Explorer app are covered in the recommended training.

Practice SIMULIA Material Calibration

This course introduces optimization methods in the Material Calibration app used to determine optimized material values, check the goodness of fit and exported materials for use in Abaqus or 3DEXPERIENCE structural simulation.

Key Concepts Covered:
📌 Import and plot material test data, configure optimization controls.
📌 Calibrate material models with the numerical and analytical execution modes.
📌 Create materials for physics simulation or export an Abaqus material for legacy simulation.
📌 Use FE-based calibration with a physics simulation or an imported Abaqus input file.
📌 Delete simulations, calibration data, or created materials.

Practice SIMULIA Model Assembly Design

This course is an introduction to creating Finite Element Models (FEMs) for large and complex assemblies using the automated modeling technology in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The course also discusses managing the product structure for large assemblies of parts and meshes created either in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform or in 3rd-party tools.

Key Concepts Covered:
📌 Create external simulation representations.
📌 Perform automated modeling

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