MSC Adams

Introduction:

ADAMS software simulation can be used to predict the performance, motion range, collision detection, peak loads, and calculate finite element input loads of mechanical systems. ADAMS has been adopted by hundreds of major manufacturers worldwide across various industries.

Detailed Introduction:

ADAMS stands for Automatic Dynamic Analysis of Mechanical Systems. This software is a virtual prototyping analysistool developed by Mechanical Dynamics Inc. (now part of MSC Corporation, USA).

Features:

Application Software for Virtual Prototype Analysis: Users can easily perform statics, kinematics, and dynamics analyses of virtual mechanical systems using this software.

Development Tool for Virtual Prototype Analysis: With its open program structure and various interfaces, it can serve as a platform for secondary development, allowing specialized industry users to conduct specific types of virtual prototype analyses.

Introduction to Software Modules:

• Adams View：

Enables the creation of virtual prototypes for any mechanical system, simulating the process similar to building a physical prototype. Initially, motion components are established (or imported from CAD software), connected with constraints, assembled into a system, and then driven by external forces or motion. Supports parametric modeling, allowing for easy modification of models for experimental research.

• Adams Solver：

An automatic tool for constructing and solving the numerical simulation equations for the motion of mechanical systems, providing fast and stable numerical analysis. Offers a numerical method for solving complex motion problems in mechanical systems. Can analyze multidomain problems composed of mechanical components, control systems, and flexible parts. Supports various analysis types, including kinematics, statics, quasi-statics, linear or nonlinear dynamics analysis. Utilizes stable modeling methods for the analysis of large-scale models.

• Adams PostProcessor：

Visualization Interface for ADAMS Simulation Results Provides a unified interface for displaying ADAMS simulation results. Users can replay simulation results in different ways. To facilitate reusability, page settings and data curve formats can be saved, promoting both time savings and the organization of standardized reporting formats. It allows for the convenient simultaneous display of multiple simulation results for comparison.

Software Features:

• Utilizes an interactive graphical environment and libraries for parts, constraints, and forces to build three-dimensional parametric models of mechanical systems.

• Analysis types include kinematics, statics, quasi-statics, linear and nonlinear dynamics analysis, covering both rigid body and flexible body analysis.

• Employs advanced numerical analysis techniques and powerful solvers for fast and accurate solutions.

• Capable of assembling, analyzing, and dynamically displaying different models or the same model undergoing changes during a process, providing various "virtual prototype" scenarios.

• Features a robust function library for users to customize forces and motion generators.

• Possesses an open structure, allowing users to integrate their own subroutines.

• Automatically outputs displacement, velocity, acceleration, and reaction force curves, with simulation results displayed as animations and curve graphs.

• Predicts the performance, motion range, collisions, packaging, peak loads, and calculates finite element input loads of mechanical systems.

• Supports bidirectional communication with most CAD, FEA, and control design software packages.

• ADAMS software finds widespread applications in aerospace, automotive engineering, railway vehicles and equipment, industrial machinery, and construction machinery, among other fields.