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LMS Virtual.Lab Motion is an integrated solution to simulate realistic motion and mechanical system loads. It helps engineers to analyze and optimize the real-world mechanical design behavior and guarantee that it performs optimally before committing to physical prototype testing. LMS Virtual.Lab Motion helps users model, simulate and analyze results of any rigid multi-body mechanical system.
 

LMS Virtual.Lab Motion

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LMS Virtual.Lab Motion contains all required basic capabilities for a realistic multibody simulation, including modeling, solving and analysis. LMS Virtual.Lab Motion offers capabilities extensions like parallel and batch solver for departments that need more solver resources than pre/post ones.

LMS Virtual.Lab Standard Motion is a complete and integrated solution to simulate realistic motion and mechanical system loads. It permits engineers to quickly analyze and optimize the real-world mechanical design behavior and guarantee that it performs as expected before committing to expensive physical prototype testing. LMS Virtual.Lab Standard Motion allows users to model, simulate and analyze results of any rigid multibody mechanical system. Mechanical elements include an extensive list of joint and constraint features and an extensive library for force elements modeling including stiffness, damping, friction or contact forces (including CAD contact). The stable and high-performance solver guarantees accurate and efficient handling of even the most complex dynamic problems. The results include displacement, velocity, acceleration, and all reactive forces and torques for all bodies in the simulation. The solution also allows users to improve the dynamic behavior performance and to predict component and system loads for use in structural analysis, noise and vibration simulation, fatigue life prediction and other fields within a seamless environment.

LMS Virtual.Lab Standard Motion provides leading-edge technology in solid modeling, parameterization, CAD geometry, flexible body features, control and hydraulic capabilities, solver performance, and post-processing capabilities like animation and graphing. It uniquely integrates all required functionalities into a single, user-friendly
desktop environment, eliminating the need for multiple solutions and time-consuming data transfers. Users can quickly create and refine fully parameterized virtual prototype models of mechanical systems using a fully integrated CAD engine based on CATIA V5.

Dedicated post-processing help engineers easily identify and effectively solve the root causes of an engineering problem allowing team members to step into the design and make relevant critical decisions.



Features

  • Create individual part geometry based on the CATIA V5 solid modeler
  • Assemble bodies using a complete library of kinematic joints and drivers
  • Add forces between bodies using springs, dampers, tires, friction, and contact forces (including CAD contact)
  • Include accurate body mass and inertia based on solid modeling and density
  • Based on the accurate and stable LMS DADS solver
  • Perform kinematic, dynamic, inverse dynamic, quasi-static and pre-load analyses
  • Calculate forces, displacements, velocities, and accelerations
  • Collision detection based on detailed solid modeling


Benefits

  • Gain full insight to internal loads acting on mechanism components to assess strength and fatigue life
  • Animate complex dynamic motion and detect potential collision between parts
  • Identify and optimize parameters that impact real-life design performance
  • Define motor and actuator dimensions by computing the required force and torque for a desired mechanism motion
  • Analyze problems identified during prototype testing and quickly explore possible solutions
  • Explore safety limits without putting people or expensive equipment at risk



    Covering a range of industries, LMS application cases let you discover how LMS solutions help our customers solve their real-life engineering challenges.

    Picanol_2.gifWeaving fabric at unequalled industrial speed

    Picanol, the leading weaving machine manufacturer, cooperated with LMS Engineering Services to realize higher productivity and enhanced noise and vibration standards on its next-generation rapier weaving machines. After providing support to Picanol’s successful GamMax weaving machines, LMS optimized the new rapier driver mechanism for Picanol’s upcoming rapier loom.



    Tractor Comfort multibody DADS simulation 2Deere Uses Simulation to Dramatically Improve Tractor Comfort

    John Deere engineers made extensive use of multibody simulation to develop a new electronically controlled hydraulic cab suspension that dramatically improves operator comfort in the field and on the road. Deere engineers used multibody simulation in the concept phase of the new design to determine that reducing the natural frequency of the cab to 1 Hz would isolate the operator from the dominant excitations. 


    Multibody Simulation Helps DaimlerChrysler Improve Valve Train 2Multibody simulation helps Mercedes to optimize engine designs

    Through the use of three-dimensional, dynamic multibody simulation, DaimlerChrysler-Mercedes Benz engineers are making substantial improvements in the design of valve trains. The one-dimensional codes previously used to analyze valve trains have a number of limitations such as forcing the assumption that the stiffness of valve components is perfectly linear. LMS DADS, the forerunner of LMS Virtual.Lab Motion, has overcome this limitation, making it possible to simulate important performance characteristics.

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    Brochures
    Download the LMS Virtual.Lab Introduction Brochure
    Download the LMS Virtual.Lab Motion Brochure

    Demo Movie
    Standard Motion

    Images

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    Simulation reproduces the dynamic behavior of a dashboard compartment when driving a car. Complete windturbine with all its control systems simulated for safety and optimization. Gear contact simulation with variable meshing stiffness predicts dynamics, gear rattle and gear whine.




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