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What Is Cae?: Hawaiyu Geng: Manufacturing Engineering Handbook, CHP 9

CAE encompasses design analysis and knowledge-based engineering software that manufacturers use alongside CAD. Design analysis software simulates how a product will perform under operating conditions to refine designs without building prototypes. Knowledge-based engineering captures a designer's intent and processes to consistently produce high quality products. Common design analysis types include structural, thermal, kinematics, electromagnetic, and fluid dynamics simulations to optimize designs and ensure safety. Modern CAE software directly analyzes 3D CAD models to allow engineers to optimize designs earlier in the conceptual process.

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What Is Cae?: Hawaiyu Geng: Manufacturing Engineering Handbook, CHP 9

CAE encompasses design analysis and knowledge-based engineering software that manufacturers use alongside CAD. Design analysis software simulates how a product will perform under operating conditions to refine designs without building prototypes. Knowledge-based engineering captures a designer's intent and processes to consistently produce high quality products. Common design analysis types include structural, thermal, kinematics, electromagnetic, and fluid dynamics simulations to optimize designs and ensure safety. Modern CAE software directly analyzes 3D CAD models to allow engineers to optimize designs earlier in the conceptual process.

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WHAT IS CAE?

CAE stands for computer-aided engineering and primarily encompasses two engineering software
technologies that manufacturers use in conjunction with CAD to engineer, analyze, and optimize
product designs. Design analysis and knowledge-based engineering (KBE) applications help manufacturers
to refine design concepts by simulating a product’s physical behavior in its operating
environment and infusing the designer’s knowledge and expertise into the manufacturing process.
Creating a CAD model is one thing, but capturing the knowledge or design intent that went into
designing the model and reusing it as part of manufacturing represents the essence of KBE software
technology. These applications propagate the designer’s process-specific knowledge throughout the
design and manufacturing process, leveraging the organization’s knowledge to produce consistent
quality and production efficiencies.
Design analysis, also frequently referred to as finite element analysis (FEA), is a software technology
used to simulate the physical behavior of a design under specific conditions. FEA breaks a
solid model down into many small and simple geometric elements (bricks, tetrahedrons) to solve a
series of equations formulated around how these elements interact with each other and the external loads. Using this technique,
engineers can simulate responses of designs to operating forces and use
these results to improve design performance and minimize the need to build physical prototypes
(see Fig. 9.4).
Some of the questions FEA helps answer early in the design stage include:
• Will structural stresses or fatigue cause it to break, buckle, or deform?
• Will thermal stresses weaken a component or cause it to fail?
• Will electromagnetic forces cause a system to behave in a manner inconsistent with its intended
use?
• How much material can be removed, and where, while still maintaining the required safety
factor?
Depending on the component or system, and how it is used, effective design analysis can mean
the difference between product success and acceptance, or even life and death. For example, airplane
manufacturers use FEA to ensure that aircraft wings can withstand the forces of flight. The more
common types of design analyses that are performed include structural, thermal, kinematics
(motion), electromagnetic, and fluid dynamics analyses.
Early design analysis software packages were separate applications, often with their own geometric
modeling application. Analysts would often have to rebuild a model after they received it from
a designer in order to complete the particular type of design analysis required. Today, many analysis
systems operate directly on the 3D CAD solid model, and some packages are even integrated
directly with 3D CAD software, combining design and analysis within the same application. The
benefit of an integrated design analysis package is that a design engineer can optimize the design as
part of the conceptual design rather than after the design concept is finished.

9.4 CAD’S INTERACTION WITH OTHER TOOLS


Once a separate application, CAD has steadily evolved to work with a variety of other software
applications (Fig. 9.5). Product development is not a single step but rather a continuous process that
impacts various departments and functions from the idea stage all the way through the actual introduction
of a product. Instead of treating design as a separate, autonomous function, CAD vendors
recognize that the value of 3D CAD data extends far beyond conceptual design. By making CAD
data compatible with other functions such as manufacturing, documentation, and marketing, CAD
developers have accelerated the rate at which information is processed throughout the product development
organization and have produced efficiencies and productivity improvements that were unanticipated
and unsupported during the early application of CAD technology. Increasingly, CAD data
has become the data thread that weaves its way across the extended manufacturing enterprise, accelerating
the rate at which information is processed throughout product development.

Ref:

Hawaiyu Geng : Manufacturing Engineering HanDBooK, Chp 9

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