From Weld Quality to Body Manufacturing & Distortion Engineering,Keysight CAE Welding (SYSWELD) offers a unique computer-aided assessment of material characteristics, residual stresses and distortions by taking into account all the multi-physics that is involved in Welding, Assembly and Heat Treatment manufacturing processes:

• for process feasibility and material characteristic control
• for process security and product performance improvement
• for car body manufacturing and distortion control

Welding (SYSWELD) 2023.5 includes:

Welding Solution:

• Visual-Weld 2023.5
• Welding (SYSWELD) Solvers 2023.1
• CSM Solver V44.1.0

Spot Weld Rupture Solution:

• Visual Spot Weld Rupture 2023.5
• Welding (SYSWELD) Solvers 2023.1
• CSM Solver V44.1.0

Heat Treatment Solution:

• Visual-HT 2023.5
• Welding (SYSWELD) Solvers 2023.1

Visual Assembly Solution:

• Visual-Assembly 2023.5
• CSM Solver V44.1.0

Highlights of Welding (SYSWELD)

Welding with CSM Solver

New smart powerful weld solution based on CSM platform: Sysweld solver has been migrated to CSM (Computational structural Mechanic) platform which strongly improve the performance and the usability by taking the full benefit from CSM platform’s DMP power and capability. The inter-operability and combinatory capabilities enable large Manufacturing and Pre-Certification solutions combinatory value offer.

Key functionalities of this new welding advisor:

• New weld solution based on CSM is between 2 to 5 times faster than SYSWELD
• CSM solver offers better scalability than SYSWELD
• Unconnected mesh management between welds and components
• Easy thermal and mechanical contact management
• Sliding to sticking contact auto management based on fusion temperature
• Auto contact pair detection between welds and components and between components
• Smart weld sequence manager
• Smart Excel weld process plan tool
• Auto shell mesh creation tool

Spot Weld Rupture

Spot Weld Rupture: Streamlined Virtual Process Chain to evaluate spot weld process windows and to predict body design rupture considering manufacturing effects. Fully virtual solution that eliminates dependency on physical testing, increases efficiency and improves connection strength.

Key functionalities of this new solution:

• Predictive solution for whatever process lobe and rupture
• Streamline weld process chain
• Computation time saving
• Advanced model order reduction fully embedded in the workflow to perform large process lobe space exploration for faster decision-making
• Allow multi parallel runs for process lobe analysis
• Weld/Rupture simulation compatible with adhesive bounding
• 3 sheets rupture analysis

Visual Assembly

New generation, easy-to-use assembly simulation to ensure dimension accuracy “distortion control” of assemblies which:

• covers complete car body manufacturing chain starting from the stamped part to pre-positioning to holding/clamping and finally welding/joining
• covers large-welded assemblies with thick plates and multi-pass welds, which are common in the shipbuilding industry

Key functionalities:

• New feature for part feasibility analysis
• Integration of quality control feature within assembly context
• Surface cleaning and meshing utility
• Weld bead creation support for non-conform mesh
• Scan to Mesh tool enhancements
• Repositioning using 3-2-1 approach
• Adaptation of new color scheme
• Integration of signed displacement contour
• Separate trade for Assembly

VE 2023.5.1 is mainly targeted to have critical bug fixes for Assembly solution (Visual Assembly) related to contact management, USTART/ part feasibility analysis.