StressCheck 7
Introduction
StressCheck's unique infrastructure supports corporate requirements for standardisation, provides a repository for corporate design knowledge, and is packaged for use by analysts and non-specialists, working as a team.
StressCheck 7 sets a new standard for computer aided engineering by providing the most advanced FEA technology, with industry leading accuracy and reliability, delivered in an easy to use and fail-safe environment. StressCheck provides many advanced capabilities that will make it the most useful tool in your toolbox of design and analysis software.
Overview
Handbook Framework: StressCheck's unique FEA-based Handbook Framework makes variant design a simple 5 step process. SELECT your part model from the StressCheck Handbook Library, UPDATE the design variables, then SOLVE, PLOT and REPORT your results using predefined, model-specific analysis procedures. Performing a parametric design study is just as simple.
Pre-Processing:Pre-Processing can be performed entirely within the StressCheck user interface to construct fully parametric geometry. Alternatively, geometry may be imported from Parasolid, CATIA V4, or IGES files. The finite element mesh may be constructed manually or automatically. Material properties and boundary conditions may be parametric or formula based.
Post-processing:StressCheck has long been recognised for its superior post-processing. With StressCheck, you have at your disposal a wide variety of extraction methods that give you virtually every engineering result that can be obtained from a finite element model, and all come with an automatic estimate of accuracy.
Toolkit FEA: The capability for integration of StressCheck’s sophisticated simulation functions, into a user-developed application, is referred to by ESRD as “Toolkit FEA”. StressCheck provides a toolkit of functions for the construction, solution by the finite element method, and post-processing of mathematical models representing mechanical parts.
CAD integration: CAD integration is an area of active development at ESRD. StressCheck incorporates CAD translation capabilities based on Parasolid Interop components. StressCheck currently supports importation of solid models via Parasolid transmit files, CATIA V4 neutral files and IGES files. At the present time, all imported geometry is static in nature. No parametric feature information is available. However, the solid models may be modified within StressCheck to remove exiting features, or to add new parametric features if desired.
Automatic Meshing: Automatic meshing is based on a 3rd party software component called MeshSim, a product of Simmetrix, Inc.