AniForm Suite v4.0

AniForm Suite includes AniForm PrePost and AniForm Core. AniForm PrePost is a graphical user interface to model the composite forming process. The pre-processing mode enables you to set up a new simulation model, whereas the post-processing mode enables you to analyse the simulation results. AniForm PrePost invokes simulations by pushing the models to AniForm Core.
AniForm PrePost is a graphical user interface to model the composite forming process. The pre-processing mode enables you to set up a new simulation, whereas the post-processing mode enables you to analyse the simulation results. AniForm PrePost invokes simulations by pushing the models to AniForm Core.
Modelling and analysis
Easy model set up
Analyse formability
View wrinkling and fibre paths
View thicknesses, stresses, strains, etc.
Supported element meshes:.pat (Patran, neutral)/.stl (STereoLithography)/.msh (neutral format for GiD, CIMNE)/Triangular elements.
AniForm Core is an implicit finite element solver for accurate and fast 3D simulations with anisotropic materials, such as fibre reinforced composites, woven fabrics and unidirectional pre-pregs. The core is a script based finite element code. AniForm PrePost enables you to set up a simulation and to view the simulation results. Also, the third party software GiD from CIMNE can be used for pre- and post-processing.
Elements
3 node membrane elements
3 node discrete Kirchhoff elements
4 node linear tetrahedron elements
10 node quadratic tetrahedron elements
Contact logic
Penalty method, including self-contact
Coulomb and viscous friction types
Rigid tooling
Deformable tooling
Material models
Isotropic elastic
Viscous, Newtonian and non-Newtonian
Elastic fibre models
Spencer fibre reinforced fluid model
Two parameter Mooney Rivlin model
Other key features
Automatic step sizing
Parallelised and implicit solver
Save and restart simulations
Script file based input
Dynamics