New simulation, testing software from LMS

Diesel Progress North American Edition, August, 2004

LMS Virtual.Lab Motion offers a complete and integrated system to realistically simulate the dynamics of mechanical systems and accurately determine the resulting internal dynamic loads and stresses. The package introduces four new application--specific solutions, with dedicated modeling and simulation capabilities for full-vehicle, suspension, gear system and track-vehicle simulation. LMS Virtual.Lab Motion Rev 4 further extends its CAD compatibility, rigid and FE modeling capabilities and graphic post-processing tools. A design sensitivity analysis feature, built into the motion solver, is intended to enable users to efficiently analyze the sensitivity of their design to specific parameters and to quickly perform optimization studies. LMS Virtual.Lab Motion Rev 4 offers extended capabilities for designing and simulating systems' controls and hydraulics, providing a complete solution for mechatronic system analysis.

To further increase the efficiency of durability simulation and optimization processes, LMS Virtual.Lab Durability Rev 4 introduces specific solution configurations for MSC.NASTRAN users. These component and system-level durability configurations provide integrated process flows that facilitate and automate all interactions with FE solvers such as ANSYS, MSC.NASTRAN and CATIA CAE--covering static strength, dynamic strength and fatigue-life prediction analysis. LMS Virtual.Lab Durability further improves the accuracy of fatigue-life and structural strength predictions by offering enhanced seam weld capabilities.

LMS Virtual.Lab is based on CAA V5 (Component Application Architecture), the open middleware for PLM from Dassault Systemes.

LMS Test.Lab is designed to offer a complete portfolio, including solutions for rotating machinery, structural and acoustic testing, environmental testing, vibration control, test data processing, reporting and data sharing. "More than 350 leading manufacturers have chosen LMS Test.Lab for its breakthrough productivity, its broad application scope and its tight integration with LMS SCADAS III," said Filip Pintelon, corporate vice president and general manager of the LMS Test Division. Among those companies, he said, were Bosch, ZF, Atlas Copco, Gillet General Electric, Magna Steyer, Mercury Marine and Valeo.

"With LMS.Lab Rev 5, we extend the application reach of LMS Test.Lab and we continue to deliver a direct response to the testing and engineering challenges of world-class manufacturing companies," Pintelon added.

In today's ever-shorter development cycles, fewer physical prototypes are available, for shorter time periods. As a consequence, rapidly executed tests must deliver bottom-level insights that engineering teams can count on to identify the root causes of noise and vibration issues. LMS Test.Lab Rev 5 is engineered to provide users significant productivity gains throughout their testing and analysis process. Coupled with the mobile LMS SCADAS 305, LMS Test.Lab Rev 5 now offers enhanced capabilities for a high performance mobile testing system that can be installed easily in a test laboratory and in a proving ground test vehicle. Recent reports by LMS Test.Lab users on benchmarks and production use of LMS Test.Lab showed productivity gains of more than 50% in many structural and dynamic trot procedures.