The use of simulation software is today an essential part of the design cycle since it increases company profits by significantly reducing time to market. Virtual prototyping provides engineers with the ability to establish fundamentals of a new project before building prototypes, and allows the economic assessment of what-if scenarios. Morfeo (Manufacturing Oriented Finite Element tOol) is a leading software tool developed by Cenaero for simulation of welding, manufacturing process modeling, and machining processes for large size components and with very efficient computation times.
Minamo is the most popular Morfeo module.
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) has considerable impact on the design by increasing performance, lowering lifecycle cost and shortening design time for complex products. Minamo can not only help reaching an improvement in the design solution, but will contribute to quickly gain insight into the design space, quantitatively assess key factors and trades, and most importantly, find innovative design options. Minamo multi-objective robust design optimization is based on the most advanced genetic algorithms, powerful design of experiments techniques, efficient nonlinear surrogate models, CAD native access, etc. It can be used stand-alone or as an engine plug-in in other commercial optimization software.
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Morfeo - Technical Overview
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The Morfeo foundations are based on both state of the art software development technologies and numerical methods. Morfeo is a modular, object-oriented finite element (FE) application: which relies on several dedicated libraries for mesh management, mesh adaptation, material behaviour, finite element features, and solvers. Parallelism in Morfeo was designed early in the development, providing an efficient and massively parallel simulation tool. The parallelism feature in Morfeo and Minamo exploits the domain decomposition techniques. Based on MPI (Message-Passing Interface) standard, the parallel version of Morfeo can be launched on high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure such as clustered or shared-memory multiprocessors (SMP) systems. Another major advantage of Morfeo consists of the eXtended Finite Element Method (X-FEM / XFEM), a partition of unity method (PUM), thoroughly implemented in the kernel of the code. Combined with Level-Sets and associated efficient evolution algorithms, this method offers many innovative and unique perspectives in material forming processes (e.g. machining) and fracture mechanics simulations (3D crack propagation), allowing for minimal remeshing and manual operations. Morfeo has an open architecture, allowing the interaction with any software for pre- and post-processing but also other simulations codes (e.g. ABAQUS™, SAMCEF™, Minamo).
Selected Applications
Electron Beam Welding Process
Application of Morfeo to the EBW simulation of a large size aero-engine component. A part of the full component: mechanical response of the structure under thermal loading during the two welding passes. A thermal calculation is performed on the full component (diam. 800 mm) on 16 processors and the mechanical response is calculated providing the distortions of the full component after welding.
Laser Beam Welding Process
Application of Morfeo to the LBW simulation of an automotive industrial component. Morfeo predicts the residual stress map after welding of the end-cap. A thermo-mechanical calculation is performed in parallel on 16 processors. Morfeo predicts the final distortions of the full part after welding of the end-cap. A thermo-mechanical calculation is performed in parallel on 16 processors.
Friction Stir Welding Process
Application of Morfeo to the FSW simulation. Prediction of the temperature excursions due to the stirring effect. Morfeo resolves a fluid flow problem, taking into account friction and deformation powers.
Machining Process
Application of Morfeo to the machining simulation of an aero-engine component. Morfeo is fast and flexible for setting-up and computing a machining process simulation. The final distortions and residual stresses are computed on a real industrial aero-engine component. Morfeo has the capability to simulate the local effects of a machining process, taking into account friction and deformation powers on temperatures excursions and the mechanical response.
Application of Morfeo to the 2D and 3D crack propagation. Thanks to an original and innovative XFEM 3D implementation, Morfeo is perfectly suited to tackle complex and realistic crack propagations cases, without restrictions on the real geometry of the crack and without restrictions on the mechanical or thermal loading that usually take place in current commercial codes.
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