Digimat is the state-of-the-art multiscale material modelling platform focusing on the micromechanical modelling of complex multiphase materials such as plastics, composites, metals, and elastomers, revealing how they perform at part and system levels. Digimat bridges the gap between materials, manufacturing processes, and structural part performance to design innovative high-performance products while minimising weight, cost and time-to-market.
MSC Digimat 2024.1 Release Highlights
Some main highlights of this release include the following:
- Water and Glycol Ageing: Digimat-MS is able to take into account a uniform value or local concentration of water, glycol and molecular mass. Upon contact with water or glycol, short fibre reinforced polymer composites experience properties degradation. This new workflow allows users to predict the effect of water or glycol absorption on the structural part performance.
- Fastener Plasticity and Failure: Digimat-VA introduces plasticity and failure in the fasteners of filled hole and bearing tests. The fastener material properties can be defined either manually or automatically extracted from a stress-strain curve. Users can visualise these enhanced physics through local post-processing of the bolt with dedicated field variables such as the macroscopic equivalent plastic strain, failure index and fastener damage.
- MuCell Modelling Enhancements : Digimat 2024.1 improves significantly the accuracy of (un)reinforced MuCell materials thanks to the incremental secant linearisation method. This implementation opens the scope of MuCell lightweighting analyses to thermal and strain rate dependencies. Further streamlining the workflow, the void phase can be added to encrypted files.
