SIMPACK SIMBEAM – 3D Beam Structures
SIMBEAM allows the user to interactively create spatial, flexible beam structures directly in SIMPACK. SIMBEAM is available directly from the SIMPACK model set-up. SIMBEAM enables an easy incorporation of flexibility into system models. It is frequently used for beam-like structure such as leaf springs, anti-roll bars of vehicle systems and rotor blades of wind energy systems, but also for car bodies of railway vehicles in the preliminary design stage. In SIMPACK the 3D beams are represented by a modal approach that guarantees efficient representations of the flexibility.
The rotor blades of the Komai KWT300 wind turbine have been modeled with SIMBEAM using Timoshenko Beam elements and the rotor blade generator. The mainshaft has been imported via SIMPACK FEMBS starting with ANSYS as finite element code.
Applications
- car bodies
- leaf springs
- valve springs
- cam shafts
- anti-roll bars
- towers of wind energy systems
- rotor blades of wind energy systems
Benefits
- fully integrated into SIMPACK GUI
- no finite element program required
- easy generation of models
- modal approach
- compact system-models
Features
- 3D beam structures
- Arbitrarily shaped profiles
- Euler Bernoulli beams
- Timoshenko beams
- massless rigid elements
- rigid elements