Visual-Crash PAM for VPS - Basics

Learn how to use Visual-Crash PAM to create a VPS model. Discover how to build a VPS model from scratch or modify an existing model. All the tools you will see are optimized for the solver functionalities, to improve productivity.
Audience
Engineers that use VPS/PAM-CRASH to solve static or dynamic structural problems
Prerequisites

No prerequisites. However, basic knowledge of VPS is useful.

DESCRIPTION

Visual-Crash PAM is a pre-processor specially developed for VPS/PAM-CRASH to build a solver deck quickly, easily and effectively. This course offers participants a simple and effective introduction to Visual-Crash PAM. Using a variety of exercises, the basic philosophy and the most important functions for model creation are presented, discussed and applied. The participants learn how to create and modify a VPS model.

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TRAINING PROGRAM

Day 1

  • Overview of the user interface
  • Selection options
  • Basic functions and operations
  • Model organization (working with subsystems and include files)
  • Solver Datacheck
  • Solver Version Manager
  • Creation of a VPS input:
    • Element & material properties
    • Loads & boundary conditions
    • Contacts
  • Model checks
    • Kinematic check
    • Penetration check
    • Mass inertia check
    • Time-step check
    • Input checker