MSC Simufact Welding 2023.2

Simufact Welding is a modular product line, which offers comprehensive functionality for modeling elastic-plastic behavior of materials and structural welding simulation. The software covers different welding processes.

Structural welding simulation

Welding simulation in Simufact Welding uses the finite element method. This approach is especially suitable for calculation of elastic-plastic material behavior with hardening, thus being well suited for structural welding simulation. Complex processes during welding – induced by an arc or by evaporating metal inside a keyhole - are not taken into account. This means that process stability and weld seam geometry are not results of a simulation but input parameters.

Structural welding simulation calculates effects of heat input of the welding process from a mathematical description of heat flux during welding, namely, a description of the melt pool isothermal line by an equivalent heat source.