SOLIDWORKS FLOW SIMULATION Solutions Include

• Evaluate forces and stresses between contacting parts, including friction
• Apply bearing loads, forces, pressures, and torques
• Optimize designs based on structure, motion, or geometry
• Use connectors or virtual fasteners to model bolts, pins, springs, and bearings
• Activate the Trend Tracker and Design Insight plots to highlight optimal design changes while you work
• Evaluate complex problems early in the design cycle with plane stress, plane strain, and axisymmetric linear static analysis

Understand the effects of temperature changes on parts and assemblies

• Study conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer
• Utilize isotropic, orthotropic, and temperature-dependent material properties
• Determine thermal stresses due to temperature distributions and varying materials

Analyze assembly motion for process and task workflow with event–based simulation

• Define motion studies based on model event and assembly actions
• Trigger actions through new motion sensors, time, or the completion of a previous task
• Evaluate characteristics like actuator force and joint loads for motion optimization
• Gain greater control of model actuators with servo motors

Study the effects of cyclic loading on product life

• Check a system’s expected life or accumulated damage after a specified number of cycles
• Import load history data from real physical tests to define loading events

Simulate vibration or buckling in your designs

• Examine how vibrating or unstable modes can shorten equipment life and cause unexpected failures
• Assess the effects of load stiffening on frequency and buckling response