Structural Mechanics Simulation Software
Cloud-native FEA simulation: Validate faster, build with confidence
Run linear and nonlinear structural analysis; stress, vibration, fatigue, and thermomechanical effects. On the cloud, from your browser. No HPC setup. No seat-count limits.
Full spectrum FEA, accessible from your browser
From linear static to nonlinear contact and thermomechanical fatigue — every FEA analysis type your engineering team needs, in one platform.
Linear static analysis
Solve stress and deformation problems across assemblies of any complexity, with automatic meshing and convergent solver settings that get you to results without manual tuning.
Dynamic & vibration analysis
Identify eigenfrequencies, run harmonic response and transient dynamic simulations, and catch resonance issues before they become field failures — all within the same workflow.
AI-accelerated
Get instant structural predictions for stress, deformation, and safety factors across thousands of design variants.
Thermomechanical simulation
Couple thermal and structural physics to capture thermal stress, expansion effects, and thermomechanical fatigue in components exposed to heat cycling or extreme operating conditions.
Structural mechanics in action
From product validation to design exploration, structural mechanics simulation accelerates decisions across the full development lifecycle.
Vibration analysis
Predict resonance behavior and structural response to dynamic loads across product categories.
Nonlinear structural analysis
Accurately simulate contact, large deformations, and material plasticity in complex assemblies.
Cold plate simulation
Leverage advanced design and manufacturing technologies like microchannels, implicit modelling and topology optimization to get the edge over your competitors.
Electric motor simulation
Assess housing resonance, rotor dynamics, and mounting structural integrity under electromagnetic excitation — identifying frequency coincidence between EM forces and structural modes before they become a noise or fatigue problem.
Turbomachinery
Validate blade and rotor structural integrity under combined thermal and mechanical loads. Transferring CFD pressure results directly into FEA to assess fatigue, deformation, and failure risk.
Solenoid simulation
Optimize your solenoid behaviour using a multiphysics approach.
Drone simulation
Optimise frame geometry and arm structures for minimum weight under real-world load cases — assessing deformation, stress concentrations, and rotor-induced vibration before committing to a prototype.
Battery simulation
Validate battery pack structural integrity under vibration, shock, and thermal cycling — analysing casing stress, pouch cell swelling, and thermomechanical deformation across cell, module, and pack level.
Industry use cases
See how companies are cutting costs and accelerating development with cloud-native CFD.
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1%
the cost. Beamlink builds telecoms towers at a fraction of the cost, using cloud thermal + structural FEA
"SimScale has significantly impacted our workflow by reducing the need for physical testing and 3D prototyping, saving us time and costs. This has empowered our team to experiment more freely and innovate faster."
€15K+
saved in licensing and hardware costs, using cloud-native vibration FEA on airborne electronics
"We found SimScale to be fast and easy to use as well as cheaper. We saved over €15K in licensing and hardware costs by opting for the fully cloud-native solution by SimScale."
85%
Reduction in insertion force on an anchor clip, with a 10% cut in R&D costs
"Deploying simulation at an early stage has accelerated time to development and significantly reduced physical testing costs, ensuring poor design concepts are disqualified earlier."
weeks to days
Cloud FEA shortened design-to-prototype cycles for medical-grade health devices
"By using mechanical simulation in the cloud offered by SimScale, we engineers at Withings have been able to reduce our design-to-prototype cycles from weeks to days."
10x
Longer product lifetime — from 100,000 to 1,000,000 operating cycles — via structural FEA
"Samco engineers were able to make slight but significant modifications to the design based on the analysis, which increased the product lifetime by 10 times."
5x
More design models run in parallel vs legacy systems, designing hydrokinetic turbines
"SimScale enables us to simulate entire systems at scale — enhancing performance, reducing risk, and unlocking deployment at speed."
$38,000
saved across four lift-irrigation projects, cutting sump-geometry solve time by ~15 days
"With SimScale, the L&T team reduced the time to solve the problems in the sump geometry by approximately 15 days, saving around $38,000 across four projects."
9 min
CFD determined reliable dust evacuation time, replacing costly SMEPAC physical test rigs
"Fette Compacting used CFD to analyze the flow and air mixing behavior of contaminant dust, validated against physical smoke-test data to protect machine operators."
fewer prototypes
FEA-aided design cut expensive prototype iterations for a legged ex-proof robot
"By improving the accuracy of their FEA-aided design process, ANYbotics reduced the many expensive prototype iterations required to ensure a robust product down to only a few."
40x
Improvement in expected machine life by cutting vibration amplitude by a factor of 10
"Using SimScale, I designed a custom-fit base that removed resonance entirely. My design cut the overall vibration by a factor of 10 — that is a 40x improvement in expected machine life."
unlimited runs
Cloud FEA removed physical-test limits, simulating hovercraft components across conditions
"Using SimScale has given us significant cost and time savings by reducing the need for physical testing. Given the cloud-native nature, there is no limit to the number of simulations that can be run."
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FAQs
New to structural mechanics or evaluating SimScale? Here are the questions we hear most.
ContactSimScale supports a broad range of FEA analysis types, including linear static, modal (eigenfrequency), harmonic response, transient dynamic, nonlinear static, and thermomechanical simulation — all in one cloud-native platform.
Yes. SimScale's nonlinear structural solver handles large deformations, nonlinear contact (including friction and sliding), and nonlinear material behavior such as plasticity and hyperelasticity.
SimScale removes the infrastructure overhead of traditional on-premise CAE. Engineers access the same high-fidelity FEA physics through a browser, with elastic compute that scales to the size of the problem — no HPC procurement, no IT bottlenecks.
Yes. SimScale's unified platform supports coupled thermomechanical, electromagnetics-structural, and fluid-structure workflows, allowing engineering teams to capture cross-physics effects without switching tools.
SimScale maintains an extensive library of validation cases benchmarked against analytical solutions and experimental data. These are publicly available in the documentation.
Explore our core technologies
Physics AI works alongside Engineering AI and cloud-native simulation — three technologies, one integrated platform.
Fluid Dynamics
Simulate airflow, turbulence, and fluid behavior across internal and external flows to make smarter design decisions earlier.
Thermodynamics
Manage heat transfer across conduction, convection, and radiation - for electronics cooling, HVAC, thermal packaging, and more.
Electromagnetics
Model electromagnetic fields and coupled thermal effects for motors, sensors, transformers, and power electronics design.
Multi-physics
Couple thermal, structural, and fluid effects to capture real-world interactions single-physics analysis misses.
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