General engineering analysis

What is General engineering analysis?

Overview of LUSAS Analyst / Analyst Plus

LUSAS General engineering analysis contains a comprehensive range of unparalleled engineering analysis facilities to cater for all types of engineering projects.

From simple 2D linear analysis of beams and plates to advanced nonlinear 3D shell and solid modeling, LUSAS General engineering analysis will help decrease design and verification time, always providing reliable results.

An intuitive Windows-based graphical user interface provides easy access to the full range of powerful modeling and result processing features, along with online help.

Considered a leader in engineering analysis, LUSAS General engineering analysis is rich in advanced and advanced features to meet your analysis needs and extend your design capabilities.

Ideal for daily analysis

The LUSAS analyst comfortably meets your daily analysis needs. Unparalleled element libraries and material models allow all kinds of engineering problems to be solved. Metals, plastics, foams and rubbers can be shaped. Isotropic and orthotropic models are available for linear static analysis, linear buckling, and fatigue, as well as natural frequency analyses to determine mode shapes.

Better results in less time

LUSAS General engineering analysis allows you to do more in less time. All models are created with built-in associativity, allowing for rapid design change. Automatic mesh is available, and for certain types of problems, LUSAS General engineering analysis will automatically resolve with a user-specified accuracy using adaptive analysis procedures. GUI result processing facilities allow for extensive outlines, graphs, and plots for quick interpretation of results.

Advanced analysis and design

Unlike some systems, LUSAS General engineering analysis goes far beyond your daily analysis needs. Advances in technology require advanced software solutions. LUSAS Analyst offers these solutions now to give you an edge over your competitors.

An easy upgrade from LUSAS General engineering analysis to LUSAS Analyst plus and associated options offers an extended set of elements, additional material models, Fast Iterative Solver technology, and access to advanced analysis capabilities.

A software key system means you can call us at any time to get a key to unlock these powerful installations, so you can handle new analytics right away.

Fully customizable

Using the advanced scripting language, menus, forms, and user-defined wizards can be added, allowing specific repetitive analysis tasks to be performed with minimal user involvement. Complete analyses from modeling to processing results can be automated – and all customized to the way you work.

Comprehensive nonlinear analysis

General engineering analysis is also rightly considered the leader in nonlinear analysis, with superior problem-solving capabilities. Powerful installations for geometric, material and boundary nonlinearity are available for problems involving large deformations, plasticity and collapse. Fully automatic load increments, automatic convergence failure recovery, and restart capabilities are designed to allow novices in nonlinear analysis to quickly become proficient in solving a wide variety of nonlinear problems. The result processing facilities provide automatic load displacement charts and visualization of the material produced.

Impact analysis and contact

For low or high speed impact and contact problems, LUSAS Analyst leads the field. Contact elements are automatically detected and 'side surfaces' and 'sliding surfaces' developed to handle the interaction that occurs in the contact regions, greatly simplifying your 2D or 3D analyses.

Dynamic analysis

Forced response, vibration problems and transient dynamic analysis can be solved faster with LUSAS General engineering analysis and, if desired, by calculating the response for selected load boxes using the Interactive Modal Dynamics (IMD) result processing capabilities. This provides shorter analysis times and reduced disk usage, compared to a full transient dynamics assessment

Thermal analysis

LUSAS General engineering analysis has a powerful set of thermal elements and extensive facilities for simple and advanced thermal analysis, in steady state and transient thermal. Problems involving heat transfer due to conduction, convection and radiation can be solved. Effects due to the phase change of the material can also be considered. If the material properties are significantly affected by the temperature distribution, a semi-coupled thermal/mechanical analysis can be performed. Changes in the shape of the component can also be accommodated by a fully coupled analysis.

Fatigue analysis

LUSAS performs fatigue calculations on the results of a linear finite element stress analysis using the total life approach. Fatigue life can be expressed in terms of the damage caused to the structure by a prescribed load sequence or as the number of repetitions of the sequence that will cause the structure to fail. Contour charts illustrating the fatigue life of each part of the structure can be generated

Working with CAD Data

Model information can be exchanged with a wide variety of CAD systems using industry-standard exchange formats such as IGES and DXF, as well as directly with specific CAD systems using proprietary data exchange formats.

System Requirements

Core i5 (or similar) processor with at least 8 GB of RAM and at least 80 GB of free disk space.

Windows XP, Vista, 7, 10