What everyone needs to know about CAE

Computer aided engineering (CAE) is the widespread use of software to analyze and test virtually engineering products. With a CAE tool, you can simulate, validate and optimize products based on the results of a numerical analysis.

CAE solutions are used in a wide range of industries to analyze robustness and improve the performance of components and assemblies. At the same time, engineering simulation is the main support for design teams in product optimization.

Today, an integration between CAD and CAE has become a necessary part of the daily workflow for design engineers. The use of the SaaS version of both solutions can reduce the differences, allowing the possibility of creating a CAD model and running engineering simulations with minimal effort.

A CAE simulation session generally includes three main phases:

Preprocessing: load of the CAD model, defining the model and environmental factors

Execution of resolution applications: based on simulation analysis algorithms

Postprocessing: model validation and 3D visualization

Main benefits of CAE

The main benefits offered by CAE / engineering simulation are:

Reduced time in product development.

Improvement of the quality and reliability of the product.

Risk reduction

Possibility of making corrections at the beginning of the concept and design phases.

Dramatic reduction in costs associated with physical prototype testing.

Maintain the deadlines established in the different phases of the engineering workflow.

Radical improvement of the quality and reliability of the product, thus increasing the level of customer satisfaction.

Product life cycle extension

Types of CAE analysis

With CAE, a broad spectrum of types of engineering simulation analysis, including:

Stress and dynamic analysis using finite element analysis (FEA)

Thermal and fluid analysis using computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

Kinematics and dynamic analysis of mechanisms (multibody dynamics)

Acoustic analysis using FEA or a limit element method (BEM)

1D CAE, or mechatronic system simulation, for the design of multi-domain mechatronic systems

Simulation of manufacturing processes such as casting, molding and pressure molding.

Particle simulation as part of an industrial flow process.

Multiphysical analysis based on multiple simulation phenomena.

Product or process optimization.

Great applicability of CAE

All of these CAE tools are used in the simulation, validation and optimization of products with applicability in many industries, including automotive, aerospace, energy, plant engineering, industrial equipment, HVAC, electronics and consumer goods.

Machine equipment and components: static structural analysis of a grip arm, different tension scenarios applied to a bicycle frame, dynamic analysis of a simplified crankshaft piston mechanism, transient thermal analysis for a car braking system or analysis thermostructural part of the router.

Consumer products: convective flow inside a bulb, static nonlinear structural analysis of a pliers, contact analysis of a consumer pressure adjustment mechanism or a mobile phone case tested after a two meter drop.

Parts of equipment and machines of an industrial process: water flow through a globe valve, centrifugal water pump using the multiple reference frame method (MRF) or fuel splash inside a moving fuel tank.

Dynamic behavior of different machine systems, construction structures or natural bodies: aerodynamic analysis of an F1 racing car, simulation of air flow around an LMP1 racing car, impact on the human skull with and without a helmet, hydrodynamic performance of a dolphin swimming near the water surface, external fluid flow around a submarine, air flow around a motorcycle or compressible aerodynamics of commercial aircraft.

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