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About the Course

Visual-Crash PAM is a pre-processor specially developed for Structural Mechanics (VPS)/PAM-CRASH to build a solver deck quickly, easily and effectively. This course offers participants a simple and effective introduction to Visual-Crash PAM. Using a variety of exercises, the basic philosophy and the most important functions for model creation are presented, discussed and applied. The participants learn how to create and modify a VPS model.

Audience

Audience

Engineers that use Structural Mechanics (VPS)/PAM-CRASH to solve static or dynamic structural problems
Course Objective

Course Objective

Learn how to use Visual-Crash PAM to create a Structural Mechanics (VPS) model. Discover how to build a VPS model from scratch or modify an existing model. All the tools you will see are optimized for the solver functionalities, to improve productivity.

Course Details

Duration icon Duration: 1 Day
Level icon Level: Basic

Prerequisites

No prerequisites. However, basic knowledge of Structural Mechanics (VPS) is useful.

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Day 1

  • Overview of the user interface
  • Selection options
  • Basic functions and operations
  • Model organization (working with subsystems and include files)
  • Solver Datacheck
  • Solver Version Manager
  • Creation of a VPS input:
    • Element & material properties
    • Loads & boundary conditions
    • Contacts
  • Model checks
    • Kinematic check
    • Penetration check
    • Mass inertia check
    • Time-step check
    • Input checker

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