Specialty Software for Engineering Design and Manufacture

Dante/KIVA Capabilities

• Coupled mechanics solver object for controlling the solution to converge both thermal, carbon diffusion and solid mechanics for each time step
• Transient and steady state thermal mechanics capability
• Prescribed Temperature
• Applied flux
• Convection
• Radiation
• Special immersion quenching boundary condition
• Phase volume kinetics model for thermal heat up and cool down cycles
• Temperature and phase volume dependent material model
• Innovative, very efficient solver for nonlinear thermal equations
• Transient and steady state carbon diffusion mechanics capability
• Prescribed carbon
• Applied flux
• Temperature dependent isotropic diffusivity model
• Static solid mechanics capability
• Prescribed displacement
• Pressure
• Cyclic displacement symmetry
• Pressure applied by rigid surface for use in press quenching
• Multiphase material model
• Logical description of mechanics for manufacturing sequences
• Mechanics types specified during block of time
• Boundary condition and material block specified during block of time
• Efficient 3D constant gradient hexahedron, tetrahedron and wedge elements
• Mesh generation surface refinement capability to capture skin effect
• Add hexahedron elements to hexahedron mesh (example1, example2)
• Add wedge elements to tetrahedron mesh (example)
• Fast nonlinear conjugate gradient solver
• Graphical User Interface (Main window example)  with editable command file
• Console window for monitoring execution progress
• Interfaced to popular pre and post processors
• Small  memory and disk space requirements
• Effective analysis restart capability
• All the capabilities can be found described in the HTML Help capability with verification problems
• Programmed with Sierra Vista Technology’s C++ mechanics library
• Present developments include large deformation, parallel processing and electromagnetic capabilities.

For more information and licensing
Contact: Andrew M. Freborg
Deformation Control Technology, Inc.
7261 Engle Road. Suite 105
Cleveland, OH 44130
Phone: (440) 234-8477
Fax: (440) 234-9140
Sales@DeformationControl.com