Firehole Releases Helius:MCT Version 4.0

By DE Editors

Firehole Composites has launched Helius:MCT v4.0, the newest edition of the finite element add-on built to improve the accuracy and efficiency of composite structural analysis. Version 4.0 offers solutions to the challenges of delamination and FEA mesh dependency.

  Delamination is one of the most common failure modes in composites. Helius:MCT v4.0 is designed to combine cohesive layer modeling with multiscale progressive failure analysis and eliminates the need to artificially prescribe a crack initiation.

  A second analysis hurdle addressed by version 4.0 is the mesh-size dependency of an FE solution. Often an analyst may find considerable variability in their solution depending on the size of their mesh, according to the company. Helius:MCT addresses this problem by incorporating an energy-based damage law that accounts for mesh size as it predicts damage evolution.

  For more information, visit Firehole Composites.

Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.