Zouch Dynamics Ltd - Bringing Simulation Closer to Reality
Products
We sell and support the following software tools from MSC.Software and VI-grade GmbH:
VI-CarRealtime
VI-CarRealTime provides a vehicle simulation environment where thesame simplified vehicle model can be used by vehicle dynamics and controls engineers to optimize vehicle and control system performance. By using VI-CarRealTime Vehicle Dynamics engineers can quickly and easily perform large Design of Experiments (DOE) and multi-objective optimization studies. VI-CarRealTime users can automatically export a realtime vehicle model directly from ADAMS/Car™ and it shares component property files such as tires, springs, dampers, and bumpstops with ADAMS/Car™and ADAMS/Chassis™. VI-CarRealTime provides validated models which can be used by controls and hydraulic engineers to optimize the controller design based on accurate vehicle performance. VI-CarRealTime can be integrated with Matlab Simulink for controls systems.
VI-MotorSport
VI-Motorsport is a software environment for vehicle
modelling and dynamic analysis, which helps race cars designers and
track engineers to predict vehicle performance when set-up
parameters are modified, before the car is built and also in support
of race events.
VI-Motorsport is based on a faster-than-real-time simulation solver
which can predict the virtual car behavior, and has been extensively
validated against test data in various race car series. The
VI-Motorsport environment is complemented by the ability to create
road data (both driverlines and tire contact profiles) starting
either from GPS, laser or telemetry data measurements, or from a
fully analytical description. Finally VI-grade’s advanced driver
model allows users to drive the vehicle model around the specified
track and to find the limits of the car.
For all those companies involved in the process of finding best
vehicle set-up and performance whilst at the same time limitin
VI-DriveSim
VI-DriveSim is a new product line from VI-grade which provides automotive OEMs and racing teams with a complete set of innovative, integrated driving simulators for a new generation approach to system-level simulation. Driving simulators allow companies to bridge the gap between virtual prototyping and testing.
VI-SportsCar
VI-SportsCar, the specialized simulation environment allows engineering teams to analyze a number of design alternatives of a virtual race car and its subsystems on a testrig or on a given race track. The vehicle is driven on a two or three dimensional track profile by a sophisticated driving program pushing it to its limit. A specialized and extremely fast quasi-static lap time prediction program is entirely linked to the model data base.
VI-AirCraft
With VI-AirCraft , engineering teams can quickly build and test functional virtual prototypes of complete aircraft and landing gear, before building a physical prototype. Using VI-AircraftLanding Gear, the specialized aircraft and landing gear simulation software from VI-grade, an engineering team can quickly build a complete, parameterized model of a new aircraft, easily defining its landing gear layout, wheel arrangement, energy absorption, and other vital characteristics. Then, without leaving their engineering workstations, the team’s members can run the model through a battery of kinematic, static, and dynamic simulations to determine the vehicle’s flotation, stability, loads, and passenger comfort. Test measurements can be analyzed immediately and test equipment can be quickly modified.
VI-Rail
Using VI-Rail – the specialized railcar simulation software from VI-Grade - you can quickly build a complete, parameterized model of a new railway vehicle, easily define its suspension, wheelset, wheel-rail contact, and other vital characteristics. Running thru a battery of simulations it is possible to determine the vehicle’s stability, derailment safety clearance, track load, passenger comfort, and more. The performance of a railcar design can be optimized virtually in the computer, before cutting a single piece of metal or running a single physical test.
VI-AutoFlex
VI-AutoFlex is aimed at providing engineers with the ability to quickly model and include flexible components into their mechanisms. Conceptual level exploration of the influence of component flexibility is made easier since the user no longer has to wait for flexible body representation from a full-fledged finite element program.VI-AutoFlex provides the user with the tools needed to build a mesh, run the analysis, and convert a rigid part into a flexible one, all within the familiar MSC.ADAMS™ environment.
FEV Virtual Engine
Virtual Engine has been developed with the goal to easily
incorporate virtual prototyping methods into the engine-development
process.
Virtual Engine fills the gap between specialized internally
developed tools and powerful multi-purpose simulation software
packages, such as MSC Adams™.
During any stage of the powertrain development process, Virtual
Engine lets users quickly optimize the performance of individual
powertrain components, subsystems or even complete engines. This is
achieved by applying the profound engine-specific knowledge from a
leading powertrain specialist to the generic Adams™ simulation
environment. The result is a process-tailored interface and
architecture, which perfectly matches the requirements of the
powertrain engineering community. Special emphasis within the
process is given to the refinement. The primary aim of Virtual
Engine is to support all of the development phases of engineering
from low-end simulations for concept analysis to advanced
simulations for verification of designs, using one tool. FEV uses a
closed loop approach, which means that there is no need to change
the working environment, because it allows data to be reused and
refined at any point when it is appropriate
MD ADAMS
MD Adams is a mechanical systems analysis software built on MSC’s
multidiscipline (MD) CAE framework. MD Adams integrates mechanical
components, pneumatics, hydraulics, electronics, and control systems
technologies to enable engineers to build and test virtual
prototypes that accurately account for the interactions between
these subsystems.
Product manufacturers often struggle to understand true system
performance until very late in the design process. Mechanical,
electrical, and other subsystems are validated against their
specific requirements within the systems engineering process, but
full-system testing and validation comes late, leading to rework and
design changes that are riskier and more costly than those made
early on.
MD Adams improves engineering efficiency and reduces product
development costs by enabling early system-level design validation.
Engineers can evaluate and manage the complex interactions between
disciplines including motion, structures, actuation, and controls to
better optimize product designs for performance, safety, and
comfort. Along with extensive analysis capabilities, MD Adams is
optimized for large-scale problems, taking advantage of high
performance computing environments.
MD Nastran
MD Nastran is an integrated simulation system with a broad set of
multidiscipline analysis capabilities based on proven CAE
technologies. MD Nastran enables product manufacturers to simulate
everything from a single part to complex assemblies and carry out a
diverse set of virtual tests. By providing a single platform for a
wide range of applications, MD Nastran offers cost savings and
efficiencies across engineering CAE teams.
Engineers at both small businesses and large manufacturers are
often required to run a multitude of tests to ensure effective
designs. While simulation solutions have helped in replacing some of
the physical tests, the disparate solutions for different types of
tests has placed added burden on analysts and IT departments to
maintain several products.
MD Nastran can be used for multiple CAE discipline studies
including multi-physics analysis. In addition to all the
capabilities of MSC.Nastran, MD Nastran offers a complete set of
nonlinear analysis capabilities in both implicit and explicit
solution technology, thermal and exterior acoustics and also the
coupling analysis between various disciplines such as thermal
structural and fluid structure interaction. This enables
organizations to realize the benefits of a single solution without
sacrificing performance, accuracy or solution capabilities.
As part of our commitment to quality, the MD Nastran Software
Quality Assurance Program complies with the applicable portions of
Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations Part 50, Appendix B, Quality
Assurance Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants and Title 10, Code of
Federal Regulations, Part 21, Reporting of Safety Related Defects
and Non-Compliances. (see Statement
of Quality Assurance Policy)
MSC Patran
Patran is the world’s most widely used pre/post-processing
software for Finite Element Analysis (FEA), providing solid
modeling, meshing, and analysis setup for MSC Nastran, Marc, Abaqus,
LS-DYNA, ANSYS, and Pam-Crash.
Designers, engineers, and CAE analysts tasked with creating and
analyzing virtual prototypes are faced with a number of tedious,
time-wasting tasks. These include CAD geometry translation, geometry
cleanup, manual meshing processes, assembly connection definition,
and editing of input decks to setup jobs for analysis by various
solvers. Pre-processing is still widely considered the most time
consuming aspect of CAE, consuming up to 60% of users’ time.
Assembling results into reports that can be shared with colleagues
and managers is also still a very labor intensive, tedious activity.
Patran provides a rich set of tools that streamline the creation
of analysis ready models for linear, nonlinear, explicit dynamics,
thermal, and other finite element solvers. From geometry cleanup
tools that make it easy for engineers to deal with gaps and slivers
in CAD, to solid modeling tools that enable creation of models from
scratch, Patran makes it easy for anyone to create FE models. Meshes
are easily created on surfaces and solids alike using fully
automated meshing routines (including hex meshing), manual methods
that provide more control, or combinations of both. Finally, loads,
boundary conditions, and analysis setup for most popular FE solvers
is built in, minimizing the need to edit input decks. Patran’s
comprehensive and industry tested capabilities ensure that your
virtual prototyping efforts provide results fast so that you can
evaluate product performance against requirements and optimize your
designs.
SimXpert
SimXpert is a next generation CAE application for modeling
and analysis using FEA and multibody dynamics (MBD). Integrated with
MSC's advanced multidiscipline (MD) solver technologies, SimXpert
provides an efficient “end-to-end” solution that takes you from CAD
to analysis report in a single easy-to-use application.
“Doing more with less” is a common theme in most companies
today, but designers, engineers and CAE analysts spend most of their
time and effort on manual, labor intensive tasks. Translating and
fixing CAD data, meshing, reworking models, creating the same plots
and charts over and over – all of these mean that engineers are
spending more time developing expertise in using tools rather than
on evaluating and understanding their products. SimXpert changes
that by providing native access to CAD data and easy to use tools to
automate their simulation jobs and get results fast. SimXpert’s
unified user environment also enables teams to share data, models,
results and best practices across time zones, geographic boundaries,
and CAE disciplines, so that they can approach problems more
consistently and get reliable results faster. Complete teams of
engineers can now work in a modern and easy to use interface to run
multi-body dynamics, structural analysis, thermal simulations, crash
tests, drop testing, and more.
MSC Easy5
Engineering aircraft, vehicles, agricultural equipment, and other
complex systems requires a systems-engineering approach in which not
only the components and subsystems but the entire system as a whole
is tested. Traditional build and test methodologies are
time-consuming and expensive; and now more than ever, every industry
is challenged to meet the conflicting requirements of increasing
innovation while reducing cost and time to market.
Easy5 provides accurate, reliable multi-domain modeling and
simulation of dynamic physical systems. Using Easy5, some of the
most respected companies in the world are evaluating system level
performance with CAE to reduce physical prototypes, cut cost, and
accelerate their product development process.
Dynamic systems, those systems whose behavior as a function of
time is important, are typically defined using first-order
differential (or difference) equations. Easy5 simplifies the
construction and analysis of such systems by means of a graphical,
schematic-based application, offering a comprehensive set of
pre-packaged "components", stored in application-specific libraries,
to simplify the assembly and simulation of such systems. Systems
engineers work within a familiar schematic drawing environment to
add and specify simple, yet complex, connections between components
in an intuitive, simple-to-use, multi-level hierarchical modeling
environment.
Typical applications of Easy5 include control systems, hydraulics
(including thermal effects), pneumatics, gaseous flow, thermal,
electrical, mechanical, refrigeration, environment control,
lubrication or fuel systems, and sampled-data/discrete-time
behavior.
MSC SimManager
For companies using simulation that need to improve productivity
and solution quality, SimManager is a Virtual
Build & Test Management system that manages all
aspects of performing simulation. SimManager is focused on meeting
the sophisticated data management and processing needs specific to
the simulation community. Our customers appreciate our deep
understanding of their CAE issues and how wisdom gained from our
experience can help them in ways that others cannot. We provide a
complete solution that brings together your people, process, and
technology to streamline simulation operations.
Implementing the discipline of Virtual
Build & Test Management gets simulation activities
completed efficiently and effectively, gaining the best return on
all resources. SimManager is a web-based virtual build & test data
management system that manages all simulation
data and processes from project initiation through final report
generation.
Using SimManager, customer simulation operations become more
productive and effective; reducing the cost and time it takes to
bring better products to market.