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Helius:MCT has been developed with the composite engineer in mind. It has many features designed to deliver the most advanced technology in a practical, easy way. Here are just a few:
Easy To Adopt
Helius:MCT delivers a powerfully advanced analysis capability for composite materials - simply as an add-on to your current FEA platform.
Helius:MCT is easily employed via a graphical user interface (GUI) within the Abaqus or ANSYS simulation environment and integrates seamlessly with each solver. It is also available integrated and available within NEi Nastran.
Additionally, the Helius:MCT analysis process allows for quick and easy conversion of legacy models and requires only industry-standard material data.
This practical implementation enables you to realize the benefits of Helius:MCT’s accurate simulation with quickness and ease.
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Material Inputs Made Easy
The Helius:MCT package comes equipped with a material library that is pre-populated with multiple sets of composite lamina material properties that are fully characterized for a Helius:MCT analysis.
Also included with the Helius:MCT package is the Helius:Material Manager. This accompanying tool provides a convenient graphical user interface (GUI) for creating a material file required to execute a Helius:MCT analysis. This file is referred to as a material data (or "mdata") file and when saved, will have an .xml extension. The Helius:Material Manager optimizes constituent-level information for multiscale analysis during an FEA solver run.
Robust Convergence and Computational Efficiency
A common problem with FEA of composite materials is excessive run times or inability to reach a converged solution. Composite materials exhibit very unique material behavior. General purpose finite element solvers, built to handle a variety of materials, simply cannot provide robust solutions for structures built of these complex materials.
Computational efficiency is inherent in the MCT method in that only a small number of equations is added to the computation requirements for a single integration point. In addition, Firehole Composites has developed the Intelligent Discrete Softening method (or IDS method), which has been incorporated into Helius:MCT to efficiently handle the unique material response of composites.
These design elements combine to produce an accurate result in a practical amount of time. Helius:MCT increases the run time for a typical structural analysis by only 2 to 3%.
Read more about the Intelligent Discrete Softening Method (IDSM).
See an example of the efficiency of Helius:MCT.
Clear, Comprehensive, Easy-to-Understand Documentation
Helius:MCT is supported by a collection of documents written to provide the user with step by step guidelines to using the tool, as well as a technical background of the implementation. This includes detailed information about Mulitcontinuum Theory (MCT) and the various features that are implemented in the Helius:MCT User-Defined Material Subroutine.
To browse one of the tutorials, example problems, or User’s Guide, take a look at the Helius:MCT Resources.
Responsive, Real-Time Support from Development Team
Firehole Composites is dedicated to helping you excel with your composite designs. Our development team and composites experts are available to respond to questions or issues.
In addition, we can provide on-site or remote training designed to help familiarize your entire team with using Helius:MCT with your enterprise FEA platform.