Analysis and Simulation
Simulation is a vital tool in understanding existing designs and for developing new ones. It's much more than auto-meshing CAD and making "pretty pictures", it's all about finding out what is really going on in a system.
TSI offers a broad range of analysis and simulation services to industries including automotive, aerospace, consumer product, industrial equipment, biomedical and general structures.
TSI's in-house simulation tools include Altair HyperWorks, LSTC LS-DYNA and now ABAQUS\Simulia; all of which are world-leading analysis codes.
Structural Analysis and Large Assemblies
Solutions:
- Implicit or explicit solvers (Altair OptiStruct/RADIOSS, LS-DYNA, SIMULIA\ABAQUS)
- Linear and nonlinear solutions including contact
- Advanced modeling for efficient large assemblies
- Normal modes, random response, forced response vibration
- Complex load cases including sequential loading such as bolt preload and combined loading sequences such as gravity and pressure loads
- Loads imparted by assembly processes
- Durability analysis
- Thermal analysis (steady state and transient)
- Coupled structural-thermal-fluid analysis
- Stochastic analysis
- Test data processing
Applications:
- Transportation: Automotive, Niche Vehicle, Sports Cars, EV's, Commercial Vehicles
- Industrial equipment and machines
- Pressure vessels and regulated products
- Consumer products
- Aerospace
- Exercise equipment and recreational products
- Other structures and systems
Mechanisms, Motion and Multibody Dynamics
Solutions:
- Full featured multi-body dynamics modeling and simulation using the Altair MotionSolve suite
- Kinematics, dynamics and quasi-static solutions
- Biomechanics, ergonomics and human factors
- Vehicle modeling library including advanced tire models
- Vibration and durability analysis of complex, nonlinear systems
- Flexbody or coupled multi-body/finite element solutions
- Combined control system integration using Matlab/Simulink
Applications:
- Vehicle dynamics
- Mechanism and machine design
- Structure and durability analysis
- Advanced vibration analysis for nonlinear systems
- Structural loads development
Crash and Impact
Solutions:
- Advanced explicit solutions using LS-Dyna and RADIOSS
- Vehicle barrier and dummy models
- ALE, SPH and coupled fluid-structure interaction solutions
- Experience developing models and correlating results to test
- Nonlinear material modeling in metals, nonmetals and composites
Applications:
- Vehicle crash simulation and development
- Impact and ballistics problems
- Impulse loading
- Consumer products
- Electronic component integrity
Advanced Materials
Solutions:
- Composites
- Nonlinear metals and nonmetals
- Thermal modeling
- Biological materials (viscoelastic)
- Multi-phase materials
- Fluid-structure interaction
Applications:
- Biomechanics
- Energy absorption
- Heat transfer
- Fluid interactions
Manufacturing and Optimization
Solutions:
- One-step metal stamping
- Incremental metal stamping - progressive part development
- Part optimization including thickness, forming, stiffness
- Tooling analysis and optimization
- Weight reduction and cost saving
Applications:
- All metal forming industries
- Product design industries
- Aerospace
- Automotive
- Any industry where saving money is important
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