Getting Started with Simulation on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform #8: What’s the Life of My E-Bike?

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Thanks to everyone who attended the eighth live webinar in our series, Getting Started with 3DEXPERIENCE® Works: What is the Life of my e-Bike? We appreciate your participation. Please keep the feedback coming so we can keep creating webinars to best suit your needs. We value your insights and invite you to share your thoughts on how we can enhance our future webinars.

Working Together

In this live webinar, you will see how utilizing SOLIDWORKS® with 3DEXPERIENCE Works Simulation can help you catch structural problems, such as excessive strain and fatigue, earlier in the process, preventing potential downstream costs and delays.

We will cover various topics, including the reasons to use durability testing instead of only a stress analysis, base metal fatigue and weld fatigue differences, and a brief history of fatigue analysis and why strain-based analysis is now preferred.

SOLIDWORKS enables you to create detailed and accurate models, while 3DEXPERIENCE Works Simulation can analyze the durability of your SOLIDWORKS designs. The design and simulation combination (MODSIM) enables quicker detection of design flaws and potential product failures. Integrating 3D CAD and FEA technologies is a comprehensive, cost-effective, and efficient approach to optimizing your designs.

Understanding Structural Integrity and Durability Issues

Addressing structural integrity issues in the mechanical design phase is crucial for ensuring safety, durability, and performance.

Utilizing the right materials can add more strength and durability to your designs. The frame, including the front fork and suspension, should be designed to handle the additional weight and stress from the battery and motor, not to mention the forces introduced by increased speeds. You may need to consider using thicker materials, stronger joints, and enhanced shock absorbers.

3DEXPERIENCE Works Simulation will allow you to quickly analyze the e-bike model using a variety of materials and design approaches under different load conditions to identify potential failure points. By iterating designs, while leveraging simulation, you can optimize the structure of the model to be both lightweight and strong.

Staying on top of structural integrity issues throughout the entire design process will enhance the product’s overall safety and longevity and help you reach your cost and time-to-market targets.

Learn More

As you will see in the webinar, the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables you to easily share your designs with others in real time with a web-based viewer—no CAD or simulation software required. Collaboration with team members, including suppliers and customers, is simplified. Therefore, decision-making is streamlined as all stakeholders can participate by accessing SOLIDWORKS files from the office, at home, or anywhere with an internet connection.

You can experience seamless collaboration with the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform, accessing it from any location with an internet connection. On the platform, your designs and simulation studies are just a few clicks away, fostering efficient teamwork and faster innovation.

To watch the recording of this or any previous session or to register for upcoming sessions for the live Getting Started with 3DEXPERIENCE Works series, visit the information and registration page.

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