Specialty Software for Engineering Design and Manufacture

KIVA

KIVA is a basic coupled thermal, solid mechanics finite element program and was created to use as a basis to deriving specialty code for specific applications. The KIVA program is a very capable program which uses has a temperature dependent isotropic thermal and elastic plastic material model.

Dante^TM/KIVA

• Dante^TM/KIVA is a coupled thermal, carbon diffusion, solid mechanics finite element program for simulating the heat treatment of ferrous parts, predicting the resultant residual stress state, phase volume fractions and part distortion.
• Multiphase material model is coupled with a diffusive and martensitic phase transformation kinetics model.
• Used by metallurgists, process engineers, heat treaters and designers.
• Simulation capabilities include heating, carburization,  immersion quenching, gas quenching, press or fixtured quenching, and tempering
• The Dante^TM/KIVA capabilities are build on top the KIVA capabilities.
• Distributed by Deformation Control Technology, Inc.
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