NEi Composites - Advanced FEA composites solution software from NEi Software

Why NEi Composites ?

Advanced Composites Solver

NEiComposites Interface1 NEi Software, Inc. has Finite Element Analysis (FEA) composites analysis software tools that allow composite product and design engineers to examine the structural, dynamic, and thermal aspects of their designs with detailed graphical visualization of data and results. The insight gained by such analysis allows designers to easily try alternate approaches, optimize their designs, improve quality, reduce design cycle time, and save time and money on prototypes and first articles.

NEi Nastran's value has been proven by engineers in a wide variety of industries including aerospace, military, automotive, maritime, sports, and consumer products. Formula 1 race cars, America's Cup yachts, Tour de France bicycles and entrepreneurial commercial spacecraft are just a few examples of highly advanced projects that rely on NEi Nastran.

Capabilities

Composite materials analysis imposes a number of requirements that are significantly different when compared to isotropic materials. FEA software used for composite analysis must be designed to handle the anisotropic nature of composites and the failure mechanisms associated with their properties like cracks, delaminations, and fiber failure. In addition, high quality FEA software should include features that make it easy to use while providing the engineer with the power to get practical and valuable results to real world problems.

NEi Nastran provides composite designers with a number of features in model creation, material definition, meshing, post processing, failure criteria, and data presentation;

	User Friendly Definition of Material Properties
	Definition of ply lay-up
	Easy Orientation Definition
	Outer Mold Line Representation
	3D Composites capabilities
	Failure Indices and Strength Ratio
	Post Processing Visualizations that pinpoints problems areas
	Sensitivity Studies and Optimization

Progressive Ply Failure Analysis (PPFA™)

PPFA allows engineers to examine structural behavior beyond first ply failure (FPF) and understand post FPF events of the composite material in the nonlinear field. [more]

MCT Ply Failure Analysis

NEi Nastran incorporates Firehole Composites’ multiscale approach developed specifically for achieving more accurate results with composite materials when comparing analysis data to actual test results. [more]

Brochures

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Rolling Demo

Video presentation is a great way to demo the software. This is a simple model of many more videos that can be downloaded from the library at Nastran TV.

Customer Testimonial

Material Composites "Mat-Comp is specialized in finding solutions in order to develop adaptable products that use composite materials. We've recently started to use NEi Fusion Composite module for our design validation. This tool is great by combining one of the best modeler with the strength of NEi Nastran. In a recent bidding project, we had to validate the use of NEi Fusion for the analysis of complex composites shape. We've got the rapid development turnaround and the excellent technical support from Simulika Team to work out some of the challenges we faced. They have found the way for providing us with additional functionality at a very rapid pace to aid us in obtaining our contract.".

- Serge Page, President

NEi Composites Free Trial

For engineers who want to learn on their own and have the time to explore the details of NEi Composites software through self guided tutorials. The accompanying tutorials guide you step by step in building the model, apply boundary conditions, launch the analysis and check the results.