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SimXpert Crash Training Course (SMX125)

SMX125 is an introductory course for new SimXpert users concentrating on the Crash workspace. SMX125 emphasizes practical skills development through comprehensive, hands-on laboratory sessions and students will master the basic skills required to use SimXpert to solve practical engineering problems.

Who Should Attend:

  • New SimXpert users
  • Patran or LS-DYNA users who wish to migrate to SimXpert
  • Designers
  • Engineering Analysts
  • University lecturers and students

Course Content:

  • Introduction
    • Crash Workspace
    • GUI Layout
    • GUI-Menu
    • GUI-Toolbox Tools
    • Model Browser
    • Collection Block
  • A Case Study – Analysis of a Car Hood – Slam Test
  • Explicit Transient Dynamic Analysis
    • Dynamic Equation of Motion
    • Explicit Solution Technique
    • Explicit Time Integration Scheme
    • Stress/Force Update
    • Implicit Time Integration Scheme
    • Explicit Vs. Implicit Time Step
    • Explicit Time Step
    • Time Integration
    • Time Step Example
    • Explicit Vs. Implicit Technology
    • Applicability of Explicit Techniques
  • Element Library
    • Applicability and Elements
    • Coordinate Systems
    • Solid Elements
    • Shell Elements
    • Beam Elements
    • Hour Glassing
    • 1D Elements
    • Discrete Elements
    • Mass and Inertia Elements
    • Meshing Guidelines
    • Time Step Size
  • Material Models
    • Material Definition-LS-DYNA Material
    • Equation of State-EOSPOL
    • Engineering Stress and Strain
    • True Stress and True (log) Strain
    • Plastic Stress and Strain Data
    • Plastic Strain
    • Converting Engineering Material Data
  • Contact
    • Contact Definition
    • Master Slave Contact
    • Single Surface Contact
    • Adaptive Contact
    • Contact Method
    • Contact Search Algorithm
    • Contact Force
    • Contact Options

Prerequisites:

  • A basic knowledge of statics and strength of materials is recommended
  • An understanding of the finite element method is useful
Length
Cost
3 days
$2,145 AUD

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