Adams

Product manufacturers often struggle to understand true system performance until very late in the design process. Mechanical, electrical, and other subsystems are validated against their specific requirements within the systems engineering process, but full system testing and validation comes late, leading to rework and design changes that are riskier and more costly than those made early on.

Simulate “Real World” physics

As the world’s most famous and widely used Multibody Dynamics (MBD) software, Adams improves engineering efficiency and reduces product development costs by enabling early system-level design validation. Engineers can evaluate and manage the complex interactions between disciplines including motion, structures, actuation, and controls to better optimize product designs for performance, safety, and comfort. Along with extensive analysis capabilities, Adams is optimized for large-scale problems, taking advantage of high-performance computing environments.

Utilizing multibody dynamics solution technology, Adams runs nonlinear dynamics in a fraction of the time required by FEA solutions. Loads and forces computed by Adams simulations improve the accuracy of FEA by providing better assessment of how they vary throughout a full range of motion and operating environments.

“Adams simulations permitted us to get different loading conditions to be studied through an FE analysis, putting to evidence the most critical loading combinations,”
Bianchi F – AgustaWestland

Adams Multidiscipline Solutions

1. Adams Modeler

   Adams Modeler represents the next evolution in the Adams user experience. The improvements go beyond just an improved user interface and focus on fundamental workflow improvements and model-building efficiencies. By streamlining model workflows, common tasks require fewer clicks and picks, and models are far easier to manage and explore.

   

2. Adams Car

   Real Dynamics for Vehicle Design and Testing

   With Adams Car vertical products, engineering teams can quickly build and test functional virtual prototypes of complete vehicles and vehicle subsystems. Working in the Adams vehicle vertical environment, automotive engineering teams can exercise their vehicle designs under various road conditions, performing the same tests they normally run in a test lab or on a test track, but in a fraction of time.

3. Adams machinery

   A Powerful Simulation Suite for Mechanical Drive Systems Adams machinery is fully incorporated inside the Adams View environment. It contains multiple modeling productivity modules which enable users to create common machinery components much more rapidly than with generic standard Adams View model construction functionality alone.

4. Adams Real Time

   Perform software-in-loop (SIL), hardware-in-loop (HIL) and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) co-simulations with Adams for reduced prototyping Adams RT integrates high-fidelity multi-body dynamics (MBD) models with hardware and control software (XIL) flawlessly.