Additive manufacturing of metals allows to produce light and stiff structures. Prior to serial production, their mechanical properties need to be understood. Prototype production and experimenting incurs huge costs, therefore testing every design alternative is unfeasible. An alternative to physical experimenting is to build virtual experiments by computer simulations. Current software on the market are not always able to deal with the highly complex AM shapes, resulting in high engineering efforts invested in simulations. For these complex shapes that are difficult to simulate, DirectFEM’s software ReveaL reduces this engineering effort by 80%. However, to become a real alternative to currently available simulation software, another question needs to be answered: how does ReveaL compare to competing simulation tools in standard situations?
Read about how ReveaL is perfectly suited for the evaluation of these “well-behaved” products, both in terms of time and accuracy.
With ReveaL, hundreds of design alternatives can be evaluated with minimum engineering time investment, leading to significant reductions in time-to-market and an overall increase in product quality, no matter where the product design comes from!
