General Information
Summary of
LUSAS modelling and results processing
features as at Version 14.6
Last updated: 14 May 2012
The following summarises the modelling
and results processing features present in the range of LUSAS finite
element software products and additional software options at version
14.6
Note: For detailed information relating
to each LUSAS software product click here
User Interface
- Full Native Windows XP/Vista/Windows
7 implementation
- User
configuration utility for licensing and specifying primary
software defaults
- User-defined
startup templates
- Treeview-based viewing of model data
- Separate viewable layers for mesh,
geometry, attribute, annotation and utility data.
- Multiple model windows, and optional text output window and command line
- On/off display control of model
layers
- Display interrupt facility
- Dialogs, file selection boxes, toggle buttons
- Datatips shown when hovering over features
- Evaluation of expressions during data input
- Open Interface to ActiveX compliant Windows software such as MS Excel, Word, Access etc.
- Hardware/software
OPENGL displays
- Cut and paste of graphical and text data
- Online help
- Fully associative feature modelling - based on CAD type data structure
- Full range of modelling units
- Boolean geometry operations
- Fleshing of geometric attributes
- Definition
of tapered arbitrary cross-sections
- Definition of multiple varying
sections based upon a distance along a line or path of lines
- Reference path facility
- Definition
of extreme beam fibre locations for viewing of results
- Analytical Shape wizard
- Generation of points, lines, surfaces, and volumes in Cartesian, cylindrical or spherical
coordinate systems
- Automatic generation of surface and line intersections
- Feature manipulation with copy, mirror and translate commands
- Accurate arc definition
- Multi-level undo/redo facility
- Options for manifolding, filleting and splitting
- Section
property calculator for standard, arbitrary and pre-cast sections
- Standard
steel section libraries for UK, USA, EU, China and many other countries /
regions
- Isoparametric meshing in 2D and 3D
- Automatic irregular meshing in 2D
- Extruded irregular meshing in 3D
- Adaptive meshing
- Mesh interrupt facility
- Creation and visualisation of
varying attributes over features
- Drag and drop assignment to model
- Generation of geometric properties,
material properties, boundary conditions
- Automatic support stiffness
distribution
- Automatic constraint equation
generation
- Generation of wide range of load
types
- Definition of load case titles for
ease of results interpretation
- Feature based slideline and thermal
surface generation and visualisation
- Automatic generation of data input
for all analysis types
- Hidden line removal
- Display of element numbers, node
numbers, material type, boundary conditions and load data
- Exploded element views
- Colour fill options
- Interactive rotation and
transformation options to enable viewing of model from any angle
or eye position
- Pre-defined primary views and
isometric view
- Selective element viewing by element
type, area, geometry type, material type or feature
- Pan, zoom and windowing options
- Multiple graphic windows providing
an unlimited number of views of a model
- Full plot annotation
- Animation over multiple model load
cases
- Working and Page layout views
File Handling
- Command file input
- Scripting language support for
application customisation
- Session file logging
- PATRAN, IDEAS, FEMVIEW, FAM and STEP
interfaces
- IGES import and DXF import and
export
- LMS interface
- Extensive user interfaces
- Picture file option for hardcopy
output
- Print directly to Windows printers
- Comprehensive results processing
from multiple analysis runs
- Processing of averaged or element
nodal and Gauss point stresses, strain results
- Strain energy, plastic work, rubber
stretches and user defined state variables
- Internal results calculator
- Automatic calculation of moments and
forces from solids elements
- Basic and Smart load combination
facilities
- Enveloping with option for different
factors for positive and negative effects
- Reinforcement calculation (Wood
Armer) for plates and shell elements with option to minimise
reinforcement areas
- Interactive modal dynamics (modal
superposition) for
frequency and time domain solutions
- Interactive spectral response
analysis
- Fatigue response calculation
- Report generator
- Window based views allow different
results in different windows
- Deformed mesh plots
- Separate viewable layers for
diagram, contour, vector and discrete data.
- Animation over multiple load
cases/load steps/time steps with AVI output.
- Support for local or global
directions for results display
- Contours of displacements,
potentials, moments or forces using line or colour fill
- 2D/3D stress and displacement
vectors
- Bending moment and force diagrams
for beam elements with optional peak values displayed
- 3D slice facility with optional
contour display
- 2D line sections
- Comprehensive graph plotting
facility with export to standard spreadsheet packages
- Display of cracked and yielded Gauss
points
- Peak results value display
- Printing and viewing of numerical
result values for selected areas and groups in a model
- Full results summary
- Automatic time history plotting
- User-defined results calculation
facility
- Visualisation of slideline/slidesurface
forces in global or local directions
- Visualisation of slice section
results locations
Product related facilities
- Available in LT, Standard and Plus
versions
- Grillage wizard
- Country-specific bridge loading
facilities
- Section
property calculator for single and multi-cell box sections
- Moving load generator
- Influence line / surface analysis
- Vehicle load optimisation
- RC slab design Wizard
- Beam stress checking facility
- Multiple stage prestress wizards
- Available in LT, Standard and Plus
versions
- Section
property calculator for single and multi-cell box sections
- RC slab design wizard
- Beam stress checking facility
- Multiple stage prestress wizards
- Available as a Plus version only
- Composite material libaries
- Tsai-Hill, Hoffman, Tsai-Wu (with
Cowin extension), and Hashin (fibre and matrix) composite failure
modelling
- Visualisation of fibre direction and skew
angles
HPM product (coming soon)
- Available as a single version only
- Distortion prediction of laminated composite parts during manufacture
- Draping capability
- Materials database of resins and
fibres
- Visualisation of fibre direction and skew
angles
- Model slip and lift off between Part and Tool during
cure simulation.
- Links to third-party interfaces
- Available in Standard and Plus
versions
- Adaptive meshing in 2D for continuum
elements
- Design factor plotting
- Allows running of any LUSAS product
with most product options
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