Dynamic Event Simulation is a fully dynamic analysis tool that takes into account mass, velocity, acceleration, inertia, and damping effects. As such it is useful for analyzing impact-forming operations and many other dynamic events. You can simulate part breakage through the automated elimination of elements from the mesh, at strains above a specified value.
Dynamic Event Simulation supports nonlinear material behavior such as permanent deformations that occur at stresses above the yield strength. Like nonlinear static stress analyses, event simulation studies can account for material and geometric nonlinearities. Event simulation analyses also support large deformation, free body motion, and contact interactions that can change throughout the simulated event.
Dynamic Event Simulation analyses produce results common to other structural analyses, and also produces velocity and acceleration results.
Dynamic Event simulations typically involve short duration events such as a bird striking a turbine, or a golf club hitting a ball. Loads can be applied as a function of time, and results are output at actual instantaneous time points during the event, rather than at arbitrary increments as in a static analysis.
Event simulation can also be used in the Quasi-static mode to simulate nonlinear static problems that are too complex for nonlinear static stress analysis.
The following list contains a few examples for which a Dynamic Event Simulation might be appropriate: