Specialized Solution Functionalities
OptiStruct offers many features that reduce solution time and simulation complexities.
- Comes with the OptiStruct solver at no additional cost
- Runs on Windows (all new PC's are multi-core with large RAM)
- Handles unconnected structures
- Detailed results for peak response frequencies in a single run
- Without this, since frequencies with peak Dynamic Response are not known ahead of time, a second run must be made to get detailed results output
- CMS Superelement (free, fixed and mixed boundary)
- CDS Superelement (FRF based)
- Directional mass and inertia can be defined, in addition to directional stiffness and directional damping
- RIGID option for stiffness DOFs
- Simplifies joint modeling by encapsulating multiple elements into one CBUSH
- All results needed for TPA analysis can be output during a single frequency response run
- Transfer paths can be determined by control volume definitions
- Improvements to traditional TPA process:
- No need to make two separate runs
- No need to worry about matching forces and transfer functions