Capture material yielding, large deformations, and complex contact behavior in an intuitive, high-performance cloud environment. Explore thousands of structural design decisions in seconds, not days.
Simulate elastoplastic metals, hyperelastic rubbers, large-deformation assemblies, and complex contact interactions. Explore designs, evaluate material selection and detect showstoppers early by running unlimited simulations in parallel in the cloud.
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Navigate nonlinear mechanical simulation with SimScale’s Engineering AI to accelerate simulation setup, explore and optimize designs based on best-practice workflows. Use Physics AI, powered by GNNs and Physics Transformers, to get instant performance predictions from pre-trained models so you can explore entire design spaces before committing to high-fidelity FEA runs.
Check AI FeaturesGo beyond the elastic limit. Predict permanent deformation, energy absorption, and failure modes with validated constitutive models: von Mises plasticity, Mooney-Rivlin, Ogden, and more. Covers elastoplastic metals, hyperelastic rubbers/foams, viscoelastic polymers, and advanced phenomena like creep, damage, and strain-rate dependency.
Handle large deformations, buckling, post-buckling, and snap-through with robust nonlinear solvers. Capture the true load path of thin-walled structures, flexible assemblies, and components that change shape significantly under load.
Model frictional sliding, gap closure, interference fits, self-contact, and multi-body interactions. SimScale automatically detects contact regions and handles complex self-contact situations without tedious parameter tweaking. Accurately capture load transfer in bolted flanges, press-fit bearings, and stacked assemblies.
Couple heat transfer with structural analysis to capture thermal expansion, material softening, and residual stresses. Analyze turbocharger manifolds, combustion chambers, and electronic enclosures under combined thermal and mechanical loading.
Apply realistic clamping forces to bolted joints and study stress distribution, gasket compression, and joint separation under operational loads. SimScale’s dedicated bolt preload feature eliminates guesswork in critical flange and joint designs.
Capture the large deformations and contact interactions that define insertion force, retention strength, and assembly behavior. Optimize clip geometry with nonlinear static analysis and cut physical prototyping cycles.
Model contact between flanges, gaskets, and sealing surfaces under operational pressures. Account for gasket creep and relaxation to ensure leak-free performance throughout the product lifecycle.
Simulate large plastic deformations and sliding contact between tools and sheet metal. Optimize springback compensation and tool design to reduce manufacturing iterations and scrap rates.
Simulate stent expansion against artery walls, catheter flexibility, and soft medical component behavior. SimScale’s hyperelastic and contact capabilities let medical device teams evaluate performance and safety early in development, before manufacturing.
Validate connector housings, casing clips, and wearable device enclosures. Simulate snap-fit insertion to predict insertion force and potential failure, ensuring plastic parts flex and engage reliably across connector, sports equipment, and consumer electronics designs.
Tackle manufacturing process simulation, progressive damage, and failure prediction with Hexagon’s Marc™ solver, accessible directly through SimScale’s cloud-native platform. No specialist software installation required.
TW, a global design & engineering firm, uses nonlinear static simulation to accelerate the development of plastic automotive fastening components. With SimScale, they reduced R&D costs by 10% and insertion force by 85%, validating clip designs through simulation instead of physical prototyping.
Check out the latest thermal management simulations performed in SimScale and validated against experimental and/or analytical results.
Check out the latest thermal management simulations performed in SimScale and validated against experimental and/or analytical results.
Check out the latest thermal management simulations performed in SimScale and validated against experimental and/or analytical results.
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Use nonlinear analysis when: stresses exceed the material’s yield strength, displacements are more than a few percent of the structure’s smallest dimension, parts interact through contact, or thermal effects significantly change material properties. If your linear analysis shows stresses above yield or displacements that would noticeably change the geometry, those results are unreliable and a nonlinear analysis is needed.
Yes. Through integration with Hexagon’s Marc™ solver, SimScale handles manufacturing process simulation, progressive damage, failure prediction, and multi-step loading sequences. Engineering teams get access to specialist solver technology without desktop installations.
A standard laptop and internet connection. SimScale offloads all computation to the cloud with HPC resources on demand. Run multiple nonlinear simulations simultaneously, exploring different material models, load cases, or geometric variants in parallel.
SimScale’s nonlinear solvers are industry-proven and validated against both analytical solutions and experimental data. We provide a library of validation cases covering bolt preload, Hertzian contact, hyperelastic materials, and large-deformation problems. Results consistently match physical testing within accepted engineering tolerances.
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