About Solvix #

Solvix is a pre- and post-processor works the Solvix FEM solver. Solvix offers a user-friendly GUI and supports many features provided by the solver.

Currently available analysis features #

Analysis step types #

• Static
• Natural frequency extraction
• Steady state dynamics
• Modal dynamics
• Dynamic (implicit and explicit)
• Linear buckling
• Heat transfer
• Uncoupled temperature-displacement
• Coupled temperature-displacement – Slip wear (based on the Archard model)

Finite element types #

• Solid tetrahedrons, hexahedrons, pyramids (in the form of collapsed wedges/hexahedrons) and wedges/pentahedrons (first and second order)
• Shell triangles or quadrilaterals (first and second order)
• Membrane triangles or quadrilaterals (first and second order)
• Plane stress triangles or quadrilaterals (first and second order)
• Plane strain triangles or quadrilaterals (first and second order)
• Axisymmetric triangles or quadrilaterals (first and second order)
• One-node mass elements (available as Point Mass and Distributed Mass sections)

Material models #

• Linear elasticity
• Plasticity
• Thermal
• Slip wear

Constraints #

• Point spring
• Surface spring
• Rigid body
• Tie
• Compression-only constraint
• Interactions:
• Contact

Interactions #

• Contact
  • Friction
  • Gap conductance
• Initial conditions and defined fields
  • Temperature (initial condition and defined field)
  • Velocity (initial condition)

Boundary conditions #

• Fixed
• Displacement/Rotation
• Submodel – Temperature

Loads #

• Concentrated force
• Moment
• Uniform pressure
• Hydrostatic pressure
• Imported pressure
• Surface traction
• Normal shell edge load
• Gravity
• Centrifugal load
• Pre-tension
• Concentrated flux
• Surface flux
• Body flux
• Convective film
• Radiation