ParaMount
Multi-disciplinary optimization with high-fidelity bushings
CAE Value's ParaMount is an invaluable plug-in tool for MSC Adams Car that dramatically improves bushing model fidelity in your analysis studies.
“We use ParaMount extensively in our durability full vehicle multibody simulations. The tool has improved simulation capability to capture the bushing failures seen in field tests through its detailed bushing modelling.”
Benefits
Why teams adopt ParaMount
- Improved high-fidelity bush modelling
- Increased efficiency across department and supplier communication
- Upgraded efficiency in test data digitization and bushing analysis
- Expanded knowledge of bushing characteristics and their effect
Capabilities
What to expect
Core features
- Graphical user interface
- New parametrization approach to curve characteristics
- Automatic Excel load report and Adams Car UDE for easy switching between standard and ParaMount bushings
- Structural flexibility
- Cylindrical coupling effects with robust formulation valid even for very high loads
- Engine mount capability including non-linear snubber force
- Various damping options — viscous, loss angle, k-fraction
Adams Car plugin
- ParaMount bushing UDE — invoked with the standard 'Replace' function.
- Bushing Conversion Manager for converting a complete existing assembly to and from equivalent ParaMount bushings.
- Load Report giving an overview of loads acting on existing bushings.
The ParaMount GUI
Convert measured Excel data into automatically identified parameters describing the non-linear bushing curve. Key engineering parameters such as linear stiffness and stroke are retained for efficient trade-off studies between vehicle dynamics, NVH and durability. Compare multiple bushing curves and generate Adams Car property files automatically.
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