1.4.3. Supported Analysis Types

The ACP (Pre) system can be linked with the following Mechanical analysis systems:

  • Static Structural

  • Transient Structural

  • Steady-State Thermal

  • Transient Thermal

  • Modal

  • Harmonic Response

  • Random Vibration

  • Response Spectrum

  • Eigenvalue Buckling

  • Explicit (LS-DYNA)

The ACP (Post) system cannot post-process all analysis types. It supports the following Mechanical analysis systems:

  • Static Structural

  • Transient Structural

  • Steady-State Thermal

  • Transient Thermal

Note:

  • Although both Structural and Thermal layer modeling are available, the particular degrees of freedom results on corresponding layers could behave differently in structural and thermal environments. For more information, see the Element Reference for the specific elements, particularly SOLID185 and SOLID278.

  • Steady-State Thermal and Transient Thermal analysis systems are fully supported by the solid workflowonly. For the shell workflow, the number of layers per element is limited to 31 for a linear temperature distribution through-the-thickness and 15 for a quadratic distribution.

  • Explicit analyses are not supported because ACP’s post-processing system predicts a first ply failure and therefore does not consider damage or material degradation.