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CAE Fidesys Standard

Empowers engineers to build digital twins of their designs, enabling them to simulate real-world behavior and optimize performance before physical prototypes are built. This leads to significant time and cost savings, as well as improved product quality and reliability.
Empowers engineers to build digital twins of their designs, enabling them to simulate real-world behavior and optimize performance before physical prototypes are built. This leads to significant time and cost savings, as well as improved product quality and reliability.

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1. Flexible sculpt meshing system:

Allows processing of models with gaps and overlaps, significantly extending the application scope of the package.
Ensures high calculation accuracy due to the possibility of creating an adaptive mesh that is refined in areas with a high stress gradient.
Reduces the labor costs of preparing the model for calculation by automating the mesh generation process.

2. Solution of linear static and dynamic strength problems, including:

  • Stress-strain state analysis of structures under various loads
  • Assessment of the static and dynamic stability of structures
  • Prediction of fatigue damage and failure

3. Analysis of natural frequencies and vibration modes enabling:

  • To determine the resonant frequencies of structures, which is important for ensuring their vibration safety
  • To optimize the design relating to reduction of vibration levels
  • To evaluate the dynamic characteristics of the structure


4. Analysis of critical loads and buckling modes allowing:

  • To determine the maximum allowable load at which the structure maintains its stability
  • To assess the stability of structures against buckling (buckling, tipping over, etc.)

Benefits:
  • Increase the accuracy and reliability of calculations.
  • Reduce product development and testing time.
  • Optimize designs to reduce their weight and cost.
  • Improve the safety and reliability of facilities operation.

CAE Fidesys Professional

Unleash the Full Potential of Your Engineering Simulations!

Fidesys Professional is a state-of-the-art engineering analysis software suite that empowers you to take your simulations to the next level. With its advanced capabilities, you can tackle even the most complex challenges with confidence, delivering reliable and accurate results that drive innovation and accelerate product development.
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Key Features of CAE Professional:

  • Nonlinear analysis with large deformations and displacements
  • Nonlinear FE solver
  • Contact analysis
  • Physically nonlinear material models
  • Elastic-plasticity
  • Thermomechanical analysis of elastic bodies
  • Calculation of temperature fields (steady-state and transient heat conduction)

Benefits:

Unparalleled Accuracy: Advanced numerical methods and sophisticated algorithms ensure that you obtain precise and reliable results, even for highly complex simulations.

Intuitive User Interface: Fidesys Professional's user-friendly interface simplifies the simulation process, allowing you to focus on your engineering goals without getting bogged down in software complexity.

Efficient Workflow: Powerful automation features and streamlined processes help you save time and boost productivity, enabling you to bring products to market faster.

CAE Fidesys Dynamics

 Unleash the Power of Advanced Dynamic Simulation

CAE Fidesys Dynamics is a cutting-edge software solution that empowers engineers to tackle the most challenging dynamic problems with unprecedented accuracy and efficiency. By leveraging its state-of-the-art capabilities, you can gain deeper insights into the behavior of your designs, leading to optimized performance, reduced risks, and accelerated innovation.
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Key Features:

  • Transient Analysis: Accurately simulate fast-paced dynamic phenomena with comprehensive transient analysis capabilities.
  • Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Modeling: Analyze NDT methods such as ultrasonic and eddy current testing to ensure the integrity of structures and components.
  • High-Fidelity Description of Wave Propagation: Investigate the behavior of elastic waves in solids, including wave dispersion and attenuation, for a wide range of applications using a unique Spectral Element method (SEM)

Benefits:

Optimized Design Performance: Make informed decisions based on accurate dynamic simulation results, leading to optimized product performance, reduced weight, and enhanced durability.

Reduced Risk and Increased Reliability: Identify potential design flaws and failure modes early in the development cycle, minimizing risks and maximizing product reliability.

CAE Fidesys Composite

The Ultimate Solution for Composite Material Analysis

CAE Fidesys Composite is a groundbreaking software solution that empowers engineers to unlock the full potential of composite materials. With its advanced capabilities, you can accurately predict the behavior of composite structures under various loading conditions, leading to optimized designs, reduced risks, and accelerated innovation.
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Key Features:

  • Effective Composite Properties Calculation: Accurately determine the effective properties of composite materials, including homogenized stiffness and strength tensors, taking into account complex microstructures and material constituents.
  • Porous Material Analysis: Analyze the behavior of porous materials under small and finite deformations, considering factors such as porosity, pore size distribution, and fluid-solid interaction.
  • Monolayer Elastic Properties Determination: Calculate the elastic properties of monolayers, such as graphene and other 2D materials, with high precision, enabling the design of novel nanomaterials and devices.
  • Multi-Scale Modeling: Bridge the gap between micro- and macro-scales with advanced multi-scale modeling capabilities, enabling accurate predictions of the overall behavior of composite structures.
  • Failure Prediction: Identify potential failure modes and critical locations in composite structures with advanced failure criteria and damage models, ensuring safe and reliable design.

Benefits:

Optimized Composite Design: Make informed decisions based on accurate simulation results, leading to optimized composite designs with improved performance, reduced weight, and enhanced durability.

Accelerated Innovation: Explore new design concepts and optimize existing composite products faster with powerful simulation tools, shortening development cycles and driving innovation.

Improved Safety and Compliance: Ensure that your composite products meet all relevant safety standards and regulations by conducting comprehensive simulations that account for complex loading conditions and material behavior.

CAE Fidesys HPC

  • Parallelization of all main stages of problem solving.
  • Acceleration of calculations and reduction of analysis time.
  • OpenMP technologies.

System Requirements

Hardware Requirements
Processor
Dual-core 1.7 GHz or higher
Memory
At least 4 GB
Free disk space
6 GB
Video card level
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or higher
Screen resolution
1024x768 or higher

64-bit versions supported Windows (for 6.1)
  • Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7 SP1,
  • Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2, 2012, 2008 R2 SP1, SP2
  • The latest Windows updates must be installed.

64-bit versions supported Linux (for 6.1)
  • Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04
  • Debian 11, Debian 10, Debian 9
  • RHEL9, RHEL8, RHEL7
  • Astra Linux Special Edition РУСБ.10015-01, Astra Linux 1.7, Astra Linux 1.6, Alt Linux 9.2
  • Centos 9, Centos 8, Centos 7
  • RedOS, Oracle Linux Server 9, OpenSuse 15.4, OpenSUSE 15.3, Rocky Linux 8.5, Scientific Linux 7

Version History

Released: December 2023
Version 6.1

Additions and improvements to the functionality

  • RBE3 interpolation connections are a special type of connections that allows you to distribute loads and boundary conditions on the model without adding additional rigidity to the connection of the connected region.
  • The possibility of re-emission has been added - the functional allows us to take into account the effect of absorption of thermal energy of radiation by bodies, which increases the accuracy of thermal calculations using the boundary condition "radiation".
  • Added the assignment of the Mohr-Coulomb plastic model - a material model used for calculating soils, which allows you to more accurately calculate some types of soils when analyzing taking into account plasticity.
  • The list of available calculations for axisymmetric problems has been expanded - the functionality of the solver has been expanded when solving axisymmetric problems in a 2D formulation. Added the ability to calculate natural oscillation frequencies. Added support for nonlinear calculations taking into account plasticity and large deformations. Added the ability to solve dynamics problems. Added the ability to solve problems of thermal conductivity.
  • Improved performance in explicit dynamics problems - increased the speed of solving dynamics problems using an explicit time integration scheme, which makes it possible to more effectively solve problems of high–speed interaction - problems of shocks, explosions, wave propagation in an elastic medium, etc.
  • The list of editable properties in the Preprocessor Tree has been expanded by adding the ability to edit a number of model properties through the properties page. Now there is no need to use the command bar to change properties and names for blocks, contacts, periodic conditions, as well as for beam sections and shell layers
  • The "Coordinate Systems" filter has been improved - the ability to view results for individual layers of multilayer shells in local coordinate systems has been added.
Released: June 2023
Version 6.0

Additions and improvements to the functionality

  • Increased performance and reduced memory consumption
  • Added the option to disable the consistent results method, which improves performance and reduces memory consumption
  • Added support for two-dimensional axisymmetric problems (for linear statics, alpha version)
  • Added support for setting a non-monotonic and asymmetric (compression and tension) hardening curve
  • Improved the operation of links by degrees of freedom with a given stiffness
  • In stability analyses and modal with preload, pressure accounting has been added as a tracking load
  • Added external CAD integration for FlowVision (alpha version)

Additions and improvements to the postprocessor

  • In the GUI panel, the ability to Enable/Switching off contacts and connections at loading steps
Released: March 2023
Version 5.2

Additions and improvements to the functionality

  • Added linear isotropic hardening type 1 for the Drucker - Prager model
  • Added the ability to set the temperature in tabular form depending on x, y, z, t
  • Improved protection operation
  • Added the ability to set contacts, connections and periodic conditions on the steps
  • Added the ability to set internal pressure in girder elements with an annular section
  • Added acceleration output to SEG-Y files
  • In the calculation of bolted connections, the operation of the power preload has been improved
  • Added the ability to select the entity "Nodes at a distance" for boundary conditions of Communication
  • Added the ability to set the temperature dependence in the properties of multilinear hardening

Additions and improvements to the postprocessor

  • Added a new filter "Stress/Strain Linearization"
  • Added a filter "Coordinate systems" for viewing VAT in laminate shells
  • Added a new filter "The theory of the strength of Cod - Saint-Venant"
  • Added the possibility of parallelization of filters, which speeds up data processing
Released: December 2022
Version 5.1

Additions and improvements to the functionality

  • Added common friction contact for FEM and ITU
  • The supported order for the spectral element method is 9
  • Added step-by-step loading with a change in the topology (composition of blocks) of the body, taking into account the final deformations
  • An elastic-plastic calculation has been added for the Drucker-Prager model with tabular (multilinear isotropic) asymmetric hardening in small deformations
  • Added calculation of poroelastic effective properties
  • Added integration with BricsCAD and nanoCAD packages
  • Added linear isotropic hardening type 1 for the Mises plasticity model
  • Added calculation of thermal conductivity for orthotropic multilayer shells
  • Added calculation for orthotropic thermoelasticity
  • Added the ability for material properties to set temperature dependence
  • Added the ability to calculate random vibration
  • Added the setting of cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems
  • For modal analysis, the possibility of calculations for materials with zero density has been added
  • Fixed the output of the results in the 3D form of beams for high orders of ITU
  • Improved and expanded converter for *.cdb format files

Additions and improvements to the preprocessor

  • Changed the interface for calculating Additive printing
  • Added display of local coordinate systems for beam and shell elements

Additions and improvements to the postprocessor

  • For Linear spectral analysis, residual response accounting has been added
  • The “Harmonic Analysis” filter has been improved: interactive node selection has been implemented, reaction calculation has been added
  • Added a new “Multi-threshold” filter
  • Expanded the functionality of the “Coordinate System“ filter
  • Improved the “Margin of Safety” filter
  • Time or harmonic index output has been added to the model display area.
Released: June 2022
Version 5.0

Additions and improvements to the functionality

  • Added the possibility of setting tabular (multilinear isotropic) symmetric hardening with small deformations in statics and dynamics for the Drucker-Prager model
  • Improved algorithm for solving contact problems without friction (FEM and ITU)
  • Added a module for modeling additive manufacturing (alpha version)
  • Added calculation with bolt preload by setting displacements and forces
  • Algorithms of the iterative solver of systems of linear algebraic equations are improved
  • The algorithm of linear spectral analysis has been improved: the calculation by nodes is parallelized and the display of the calculation progress has been added.
  • Calculation of laminate shells with thermal conductivity in multilayer isotropic and orthotropic (alpha version) shells has been added
  • Added the possibility of using the orthotropic thermoelasticity model

Additions and improvements to the preprocessor

  • The tool for setting layers for shells and entering a coordinate system for a block with shells has been improved, the panel for setting layer parameters has been redesigned
  • Improved work when specifying the identifiers of cross sections of beam elements
  • Added the ability to import multiple FEM models in the * format.fds
  • Improved rendering of 3d-view sections of beams and shells
  • Added point mass rendering in 3D view
  • In the Windows version, the import of models in the Siemens NX format (*.jt, *.prt) has been added
  • . In the Linux version, the import of models in the Parasolid and SolidWorks formats is supported.
  • Added the ability in the graphical interface to directly set a set of properties of the beam element to the selected block
  • Added import of FEM models in Ansys (*.cfd) format (alpha version)

Additions and improvements to the postprocessor

  • Added a new filter for disabling blocks (alpha version)
  • The functionality of the "Coordinate system" filter has been expanded
  • , the "Safety margin" filter has been improved
  • , the output of the stress-strain state of the layer in the local coordinate system of laminates has been added
  • Added stress-strain state output by layers for laminates
  • The "Frequency analysis" filter has been added, which allows analyzing the stress-strain state of the structure for the selected frequency of the driving force based on the results of harmonic analysis
  • Added the ability to analyze stresses at the extreme points of the cross section of beam elements
  • Added a damping task in the "Linear spectral analysis" filter
  • The order of display of vtu files is now performed in the order of their enumeration in the psd file with the results of calculations
  • Added time and harmonic index display in the model display area
  • Added the "Statistics" filter to display integral values
Released: December 2021
Version 4.1

Additions and improvements to the postprocessor

  • Added the filter 'Plot global variables from time'
  • Improved filter 'Linear spectral analysis'
  • Improved filters 'Harmonic analysis' and 'Frequency analysis'
  • Added the ability to save animations
  • Added the output of text annotations to the graphical window

Additions and improvements to the preprocessor

  • Added thermoelastic calculation of effective material properties
  • Added a sliding contact without friction, including for nonconformal grids with spectral elements
  • Added step-by-step calculation with changing material parameters between steps
  • A three-dimensional geomechanical analysis has been added within the framework of a pro elastoplastic model (taking into account the pressure of the saturating liquid/gas) of a medium with symmetrical hardening
  • Improved calculation taking into account the effects of plasticity
  • Integration with the Universal Mechanism software package
  • Added calculation taking into account viscoplasticity (alpha version)
Released: December 2021
Version 4.0

Additions and improvements to the functionality

  • Added support for anisotropic (Transversally isotropic and Orthotropic) material models (alpha version)
  • Support of the connected contact in solving problems of thermal conductivity and piezo conductivity
  • A modal analysis is implemented for harmonic indices in problems with boundary conditions of cyclic symmetry
  • Added elastic bonds with component-by-component stiffness (alpha version)
  • Added rigid and elastic connections in the direction (alpha version)
  • Added a new point finite element without mechanical characteristics for applying loads through a reference point (alpha version)
  • Added the ability to specify a related contact when calculating effective properties
  • Added the ability to load the initial state from the vtu

Additions and improvements to the postprocessor

  • Interface: Properties of beams/shells/springs/point masses added to the Block (Tree)
  • Interface: Disabling/enabling the GU from the Tree
  • Interface: New Tools panel for Geometry Analysis
  • Interface: Draw overlapping volumes and Draw with adjacent volumes
  • Interface: New panel for building tetrahedral grids
  • Interface: Reduce Bolts command panel
  • Building a grid: A new command for tightening the grid
  • Building a grid: Improvements in the Meshedit team
  • Building a grid: Naming a group containing an intersecting grid
  • Grid construction: Grid quality Metric Normalized inscribed radius for second-order tetrahedra
  • Building a grid: A new option for the set node constraint command
  • Grid construction: Parallel creation of a tetrahedral grid
  • Creating a geometry: New Reduce Command
  • Creating geometry: Saving groups after sections (wedcut)
  • Sculpt: Unstructured Grid
  • Sculpt: Filling gaps
  • Sculpt: Improving grid compliance with the STL standard
  • Sculpt: Improved color smoothing
  • Graphics, utilities, etc.: Improvements in the selection of free objects

Additions and improvements to the preprocessor

  • Interface: Properties of beams/shells/springs/point masses added to the Block (Tree)
  • Interface: Disabling/enabling the GU from the Tree
  • Interface: New Tools panel for Geometry Analysis
  • Interface: Draw overlapping volumes and Draw with adjacent volumes
  • Interface: New panel for building tetrahedral grids
  • Interface: Reduce Bolts command panel
  • Building a grid: A new command for tightening the grid
  • Building a grid: Improvements in the Meshedit team
  • Building a grid: Naming a group containing an intersecting grid
  • Grid construction: Grid quality Metric Normalized inscribed radius for second-order tetrahedra
  • Building a grid: Naming a group containing an intersecting grid
  • Building a grid: A new option for the set node constraint command
  • Grid construction: Parallel creation of a tetrahedral grid
  • Creating a geometry: New Reduce Command
  • Creating geometry: Saving groups after sections (wedcut)
  • Sculpt: Unstructured Grid
  • Sculpt: Filling gaps
  • Sculpt: Improving grid compliance with the STL standard
  • Sculpt: Improved color smoothing
  • Graphics, utilities, etc.: Improvements in the selection of free objects
Released: October 2020
Version 3.1

Additions and improvements to the functionality

  • Added calculation of laminar (layered) shells (alpha version).
  • Added the ability to use local coordinate systems in the preprocessor
  • Improved algorithm for working with cyclic symmetry boundary conditions
  • Added the ability to perform topological optimization of models

Additions and improvements to the preprocessor

  • Added the display of 3D cross-sections of beams in the preprocessor
  • Improved the process of setting properties to blocks
  • Improved algorithm for constructing triangular and tetrahedral grids
  • Added new options for selecting objects
  • Added a new feature for tightening corners
  • Added new features for removing surfaces
  • Added a new technology for matching intervals when building a grid
  • Added a new command to remove cavities in bulk bodies
  • Added a command to remove overlapping volumes
  • Added new features in the context menu
  • Improved the technology of automatic construction of hexahedral grids
  • Improved the import of geometric models with a grid
Released: March 2020
Version 3.0

Additions and improvements to the functionality

  • A generator of unstructured hexahedral meshes has been added.
  • Added a new tool for finding grid intersections.
  • A spectral method for solving linear dynamic problems using the reaction spectrum is implemented.
  • New types of boundary conditions have been added: Rigid Bonds, Heat Source, Volumetric Heat Source, Fluid Flow.
  • Added the ability to edit the material from the Tree. Tools for working with geometry have been upgraded.
Released: October 2019
Version 2.2

Additions and improvements to the functionality

  • Added the ability to perform calculations of composite CAD models with gaps/overlaps between bodies for all types of analysis, including dynamic direct integration
  • Added the ability to change the properties of materials in blocks during multistep loading
  • For beam elements, the accuracy of displaying the results in 3D has been improved
  • The accuracy and speed of calculations of dynamic problems by the direct integration method have been improved.

New types of boundary conditions

  • Directional connections for setting boundary conditions along a normal or tangent
  • Periodic boundary conditions for modeling cyclosymmetry and periodic structures
  • Radiation boundary condition for thermal conductivity and thermoelasticity problems

Additions and improvements to the preprocessor

  • Added a toolbar with options for displaying the model along the coordinate axes
  • Start/Stop calculation control buttons/The pause is displayed on the toolbar

Additions and improvements to the postprocessor

  • Improved the operation of the Coordinate System filter.
Released: June 2019
Version 2.1

Accelerated work with geometric models consisting of a large number of elements. In particular, the loading and preprocessing time of such models has been reduced.

Added the ability to upload Seg-Y format files for models made of beam and shell elements.

Released: March 2019
Version 2.0

Added calculation of multistep loading

  • Setting of active boundary conditions for each loading step
  • Setting the values of the boundary conditions for each loading step in the form of a tabular dependence
  • Setting the active blocks in the model for each loading step.

Added automatic recording of the results of dynamic calculations (displacement, velocity, pressure, main stresses) in the form of seismograms in SGY files for a given set of receivers.

Added support for formula and table dependencies for material constants when importing and exporting materials.

Added graph rendering for tabular dependencies.

The ability to create models in the preprocessor is enabled, regardless of the type of license key.

Released: September 2018
Version 1.7.1

New types of boundary conditions

  • Connected contact (possibility of solving large assemblies on nonconformal grids of different order)
  • Radiation
  • Heat source
  • Volumetric heat source
  • Pore pressure
  • Fluid flow
  • Liquid source
  • Volumetric liquid source

New types of analysis

  • Piezo conductivity
  • Calculation of effective thermoelastic properties

Added the ability to set initial conditions

  • Initial movement
  • Initial speed
  • Initial angular velocity
  • Initial temperature
  • Initial pore pressure

New properties of materials

  • Multilinear hardening (Mises)
  • Prestress
  • Piezo elastic plasticity

Additions and improvements to the preprocessor

  • A new convenient mechanism for specifying materials

Additions and improvements to the postprocessor

  • Improved operation of the software interface
Released: June 2017
Version 1.7.0

New types of elements

  • Springs
  • Point masses
  • Beam elements of the second order (with intermediate nodes)

New types of boundary conditions

  • Distributed force
  • Tight ties
  • Gravity
  • Angular velocity
  • Non-reflective boundary conditions and initial conditions in dynamic analysis

New types of analysis

  • Harmonic analysis
  • The method of superposition of modal forms, including the setting of damping parameters, for solving dynamic problems

Added the ability to set dependencies of material parameters on coordinates/temperature.

Added the ability to calculate effective masses and coefficients of participation of own forms of construction.

New cross-section profiles have been added for beam elements.

Improved operation of the generator of unstructured computational grids, including the case of hybrid grids.

Added support for CATIA v5, v6 formats.

Released: April 2015
Version 1.6 R2

Additions and improvements to the preprocessor

  • The ability to automatically process the results of calculating the effective properties of composites
  • Improved stability of operation

Additions and improvements to the postprocessor

  • Improved the operation of the Python Shell-based programming interface

Additions and improvements to the processor (calculation module)

  • Elastic-plastic deformation according to the Drucker-Prager model
  • Calculation of effective properties of composite materials
  • HPC and Dynamics modules are supplied in Standard and Professional configurations