NAFEMS Americas and Digital Engineering (DE) teamed up (once again) to present CAASE, the (now Virtual) Conference on Advancing Analysis & Simulation in Engineering, on June 16-18, 2020!

CAASE20 brought together the leading visionaries, developers, and practitioners of CAE-related technologies in an open forum, unlike any other, to share experiences, discuss relevant trends, discover common themes, and explore future issues, including:
-What is the future for engineering analysis and simulation?
-Where will it lead us in the next decade?
-How can designers and engineers realize its full potential?
What are the business, technological, and human enablers that will take past successful developments to new levels in the next ten years?

Resource Abstract

The future of conceptual engineering across multiple industries necessitates use of tools which effectively capture the requirements at a fundamental level and provide an efficient platform not only to convert these to 3D geometry, but also allow concurrent optimization and validation across multi-physics & multi-scale attributes of these concepts. Additionally, a digital continuity is aspired to connect the selected candidate to downstream detailed design.

Concept Structure Engineering, is the latest application being delivered by DASSAULT SYSTEMES under the Modeling and Simulation initiative. It is based on the successful principle of SFE CONCEPT, of generating multiple concepts, which includes continuous and discrete design variables, and can be readily converted into simulation models.

These simulation models are further seamlessly connected to entire simulation and optimization applications within the SIMULIA portfolio, facilitating the con-current validation across multi-physics & multi-scale attributes. This could be further extended to include a multi-material scenarios including the use of composites.

The user can select the most efficient concept, based on Result Analysis and Performance study, which are leveraged to filter through the various alternatives and rate them based on the key performance indicators(KPI’s).

Currently there is a huge bottleneck within the industry to efficiently convert concept models to detailed design. This is related to uses multiple tools which require different file formats. The common data model approach of the 3DExperience Platform, enables digital continuity which empowers the designer using CATIA to readily to access the concept models and enhance them further by including the manufacturing details which are crucial during the detailed design phase.

The model based approach of DASSAULT SYSTEMES 3DExperience Platform enables this engineering innovation, and the work presented in this paper will capture the model based approach, digital continuity of 3DExperience Platform being leveraged to generate structural concept and enhance its performance through simulation and handover to downstream detailed design.