This blog article was written by Andrew Brendt       A previous blog article, titled Why Simulate When Developing Mine-Protected Vehicles, provided motivation for using simulation in the development of mine-protected vehicles. This article will now discuss an approach that is routinely adopted to perform these simulations. Mine blast events are highly dynamic (high-frequency content) […]

This blog article was written by Andrew Brendt Mine-protected vehicles are routinely required to meet mine protection levels set out in specifications (e.g., STANAG 4569). The process involved in obtaining certification for a vehicle according to these specifications can be costly and time-consuming and become especially painful if a vehicle fails to provide the desired level […]

More and more problems need to be solved by using advanced non-linear simulation tools like Marc from MSC Software. Marc has powerful auto-remeshing capabilities to ensure the integrity of the finite element formulations regardless of the amount of deformation that occurs due to large strain and deformations. Add thermal aspects or fracture mechanics, electromagnetics or […]

Question Is there a method to create a new analysis deck/job but have specified results from a previous job (same .db) as initial conditions? (Every load in the new job is then applied on top of these.) I'm using Patran 2012.1 with Dytran 2012.1.0. Answer There are a couple of ways to use previous result […]