From Weld Quality to Body Manufacturing & Distortion Engineering, ESI SYSWELD offers a unique computer-aided assessment of material characteristics, residual stresses and distortions by taking into account all the multi-physics that is involved in Welding, Assembly and Heat Treatment manufacturing processes:

• for process feasibility and material characteristic control
• for process security and product performance improvement
• for car body manufacturing and distortion control

ESI SYSWELD 2020.0 includes:

Welding Simulation: Visual-Weld 15.5 and SYSWELD Solvers 2020.0

Heat Treatment Simulation: Visual-HT 15.5 and SYSWELD Solvers 2020.0

Assembly Simulation: Visual-Assembly 15.5 and Virtual Assembly Solver (CSM) 2019.5:

1. Body manufacturing for auto industry
2. Distortion engineering on large welded assembly

• Thick plate and large welded assemblies for shipbuilding
• Welding Sequence Optimization with help of PAM-OPT 2020.0

Highlights of ESI SYSWELD:

Visual Weld and HT:

Fast, intuitive and easy-to-use welding and heat treatment simulation tool which covers all activities of the welding & heat treatment engineer. Some key new functionalities of version 2020 are:  

• NITSCHE contact formulation including friction and large strain assumption
• Grain structure modelling with CAFE2G solver
• CNTG thermal contact compatible with DMP
• Weld speed and power ramp control

Visual Assembly:

New generation, easy-to-use assembly simulation for distortion control which:

• Covers complete car body manufacturing chain starting from the stamped part to pre-positioning to holding/clamping and finally welding/joining. Inheriting details of the “as manufactured” components from the press shop, visual assembly simulates step by step the entire assembly and welding process chain in the body shop.
• Covers large welded assemblies with thick plates and multi-pass welds, which are common in the shipbuilding industry. Aimed at shop floor production, the software can deliver the optimization of a weld sequence plan thanks to a streamlined and intuitive interface, offering dedicated automatic meshing functionalities and easy model set-up.

Please refer to the SYSWELD 2020 Release Notes for more information and to the Installation Guide for the installation of ESI SYSWELD 2020.