Impact Finite Element

Impact Finite Element: High-Velocity Dynamic Simulation

Finite element analysis software for simulating crashes, impacts, and explosions on structures and components

What is Impact Finite Element?

Impact Finite Element is a specialized finite element analysis (FEA) software developed by Century Dynamics to simulate high-speed dynamic events such as vehicle crashes, ballistic impacts, airbag deployments, and explosive detonations. It can be used to study how structures and components respond to extreme impulsive loads from events like collisions, blasts, metal forming, and more.

Unlike traditional FEA software, Impact Finite Element uses explicit integration schemes optimized for analyzing transient events involving very fast dynamic effects over short durations of time, like on the order of milliseconds. It employs advanced contact algorithms and material models capable of handling highly nonlinear behaviors.

Key features and capabilities of Impact Finite Element include:

• Simulating impacts, crashes, drops, blasts, metal forming processes
• Advanced nonlinear contact algorithms for complex interactions between parts
• Sophisticated material models covering metals, composites, foams, fabrics, plastics, soils, concrete
• Human body models for occupant safety simulations in automotive and aerospace applications
• Detailed failure modeling for composite materials including delamination and cracking
• Coupled fluid structure interaction capabilities
• Python-based scripting interface for automation and customization

Impact Finite Element includes an intuitive pre- and post-processor for model building, simulation set up, and visualization of results including animations. It integrates with Century Dynamics' library of vehicle, dummy, barrier, and weapon models. Impact Finite Element can utilize multicore and HPC cluster processing to reduce analysis times.

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