Virtual Performance Solution
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This tip provides some information on the usage of multi stage runs in Virtual Performance Solution (VPS)
This tip provides some background information on how to model static cases without considering the effect of boundary conditions in Virtual Performance Solution (VPS)
This tip provides methodology to pre stress elements in Virtual Performance Solution (VPS) to model Bolt assemblies.
This tip provides some background information on the question, when, or when not, to use the linear tetrahedron (TETR4 / ) element in Virtual Performance Solution (VPS)
This tip discusses the possible discrepancies in informations concerning total mass, part masses, nodal and element masses, given in the Virtual Performance Solution (VPS) output listing.
This tip discusses the choice of physically meaningful numbers to be used, when moments of inertia need to be specified in an added mass definition.
This tip discusses some of the reasons that might be responsible for problems with contact or tied definitions in a VPS simulation
This tip explains the relations between the parameters that describe the linear elastic behavior of materials
This tip helps to convert typical tensile test data into stress-strain curves to be used in many material models of Virtual Performance Solution (VPS)