Major breakthrough with many cutting-edge features:
New Graphical User Interface – heat treatment and metallurgy – CPU time reduction – optimization – enriched kinematics – induction heating…
Mougins, France – May 2014
TRANSVALOR S.A. announces the availability of FORGE® NxT 1.0 in May 2014. With this announcement, Transvalor S.A. reinforces its position as the leader in material forming simulation and modeling technology.
FORGE® NxT 1.0 brings an impressive array of new functionalities that will increase engineering productivity and efficiency. With realistic kinematics, an end to end microstructure evolution capability and a completely redesigned intuitive user interface, FORGE® NxT 1.0 provides an easy-to-use work environment for best-in-class forging simulations.
– Easy workflow with a new graphical user interface
The brand new, intuitive graphical user interface offers a smooth and quick workflow. Pre and postprocessors are combined; data setup is made easy through access to process-specific functions as well as pre-defined forging sequences. More than a graphical interface, it is also for our customers the repository of their Forging Intelligence.
– Extensive heat treatment and metallurgy capabilities
To cover the growing demand for in-use properties prediction, extensive heat treatment and metallurgy capabilities have been introduced in FORGE® NxT 1.0. Phase transformation during forming is now possible. Carburizing as well as tempering processes can be simulated for a realistic and accurate final hardness prediction. The heat treatment module now supports CCT curves and benefits from an easy-to-use graphical user interface for material composition definition as well as TTT&CCT curves visualization. For high technology components with strong requirements on the final mechanical properties, microstructure prediction is now available for a wider range of materials.
– Unique fully automatic optimization tool
As a market leader in fully automatic design, TRANSVALOR S.A. is constantly enhancing this functionality. FORGE® NxT 1.0 provides the best commercial solution to improve forging yield. With the automatic design tool already supporting ProE Wildfire, the new coupling with the CAD package SolidWorks makes FORGE® NxT 1.0 the only forging simulation software offering a fully automatic coupling with major CAD systems.
– Fastest computation for open die and incremental forging
For open die and incremental forging processes, FORGE® NxT 1.0 brings a state-of-the-art numerical technique that drastically reduces simulation computation time while increasing results accuracy. This new method, known as a bi-mesh method, relies on the automatic split between two meshes. One fine mesh for the thermal calculation and history variables storage and one adapted mesh for the mechanical computation to finely capture localized deformations. It is very easy-to-set-up and fully compatible with HPC calculation.
– Unmatched meshing technology
Quality of results and mesh quality are indissociable. Multiple innovative mesh improvements have been integrated in FORGE® NxT 1.0. For processes like multi-layer rolling, co-extrusion or more generally forming processes with different material properties, a multi-material meshing technology is integrated, providing a high accuracy solution. For thin products forming, a new dedicated meshing technique is now available with FORGE® NxT 1.0. It will offer TRANSVALOR S.A. customers the possibility to create adaptive and non-isotropic meshes. The mesh is optimized in the thickness and captures temperature and deformation at very little expense to computation time.
– Realistic kinematics
For ring rolling simulations, the most accurate representation of the actual piloting is critical to achieve quality of results. To this end, new and improved kinematics are now available with FORGE® NxT 1.0. Accuracy is also greatly improved with the addition of new advanced techniques for contact treatment, based on analytical dies definition.
– New: Induction heating
FORGE® NxT 1.0 now provides the capability to simulate the end to end induction heating process. With this major functional addition, FORGE® NxT 1.0 customers will be able to predict, validate and optimize their induction operations, be they prior to forging the actual billet or prior to their heat treatment operations. Maxwell equations are solved regardless of the geometry complexity. The result is an improved precision of the complete heating process simulation.
TRANSVALOR S.A. is the world-wide leader in developing and marketing forming simulation software. TRANSVALOR S.A.“s products are a fixture in most engineering departments and research centers around the world. Its 30 years“ experience and the close partnership with the prestigious French Research Center for Material Forming (CEMEF) of Mines ParisTech, contribute to make TRANSVALOR S.A. one of the most innovative material forming simulation company. For more information, please visit: http://www.transvalor.com/en/
TRANSVALOR S.A.
Octavia Reimbold
694, av du Dr. Maurice Donat – Parc de Haute Technologie
06255 Mougins Cedex
+33 (0)4 9292 4203
octavia.reimbold@transvalor.com
http://www.transvalor.com/en/