Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced the latest updates to its Simcenter portfolio, delivering advancements in aerostructure analysis, electric motor design, gear optimisation, and smart virtual sensing.
Designed to streamline workflows, accelerate certification, and provide deeper insights into system performance, the enhancements are set to empower engineers to meet the evolving challenges of electrification and advanced air mobility, said Jean-Claude Ercolanelli, senior VP Simulation and Test Solutions, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “We’re delivering tools that drive innovation, improve efficiency and support a more sustainable and connected future. Our Simcenter portfolio is transforming engineering simulation.”
Integrated aerostructure analysis allows for the automated creation of free-body diagrams and Margin of Safety (MoS) calculations, accelerating certification schedules by a reported 20 per cent. Users can now evaluate load paths across aircraft models and perform full-envelope MoS analysis without the need for costly in-house tools.
Simcenter also adds axial flux motor simulation for faster design and simulation of compact, high-power-density motors. Users can quickly create lightweight designs using Siemens’ Simcenter E-Machine Design software, then transition to 3D simulations in Siemens’ Simcenter 3D software for electromagnetic, thermal and mechanical performance assessments.
New gear design optimisation tools in Simcenter introduces a lightweight gear blank parameterisation and an optimisation framework to improve gearbox noise, vibration and harshness performance. These tools should help reduce late-stage design changes and streamline the development cycle.
Siemens adds that Simcenter updates have also expanded its capabilities to include rigid body motion sensors and damage assessment tools, providing insights into the durability and remaining useful life of machines even in challenging test environments.
Additive manufacturing simulations in this release should be improved by ‘a factor 200 per cent’ with voxel mesh improvements and enhances to collaboration with centralised model data and streamlined load and boundary condition transfers.