FEA SERVICES
High-End Engineering Analysis On-Demand
Performance Prediction You Can Rely On
The GoEngineer simulation team provides a wide range of FEA consulting services to solve design issues, hit performance targets, shorten length iteration cycles, and ensure smooth a prototyping phase.
Our FEA services are the fastest and easiest way to access industry-leading FEA technology, run on enterprise computing resources, by analysts with decades of software and industry experience.
Whether you need additional support for your own simulation team or are looking for a total end-to-end analysis solution, GoEngineer is here to help.
Benefits of FEA Services
Predict Complex Scenarios
Get nonlinear, dynamic, and multi-physics analyses for complex product performance and manufacturing problems.
Avoid Overdesign
Improve product performance while maintaining material efficiency, through one-off or automated design study.
Solve Problems Faster
Enterprise computing and FEA specialization reduce simulation time and increase accuracy.
“BraunAbility is pleased to partner with GoEngineer for all our FEA tasks. The main reason we did this several years ago and continue to collaborate with GoEngineer, it’s not only their capability and expertise, but the technical and account management team's dedication to always providing us the attention we need, in a very timely manner.”
– Carlos B.
Sr Director, Vehicle Engineering
BraunAbility
OUR FEA SERVICE Portfolio
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Static Analysis
- Quality stress and displacement analysis requires excellent attention to detail, high-density FEA models, accurate materials and contact behavior, and an experienced Abaqus analyst to set it all up to converge well.
- Key capabilities:
- Linear & non-linear
- Stress, strain, deformation
- Buckling
- Contact & sealing
- Material fracture & hyperelasticity - Ideal for:
- Basic or in-depth understanding of load capacity and stiffness.
- High detail and accuracy in stress and contact behavior. -
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Explicit Dynamic Analysis
- When high-speed and chaotic events exceed the capabilities of static analysis, an explicit solver with sufficient computing resources can provide an answer to even the largest problems.
- Key capabilities:
- Quasi-static
- Impact & drop
- Crash (including full-vehicle)
- Ballistic & mechanical shock - Ideal for:
- Predicting assembly and material behavior in high-energy, transient events.
- Efficiently analyzing scenarios involving large deformation, unconstrained bodies, and/or complex interactions. -
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Vibration Analysis
- Vibration is a critical part of structural and acoustic analyses. The more advanced procedures may require test data or high-performance computing (HPC), and results may be used for further downstream simulation.
- Key capabilities:
- Modal (normal modes – eigenvalue extraction)
- Random vibration
- Frequency response
- Steady-state dynamics
- Acoustics - Ideal for:
- Understanding response to various types of excitation for structural, acoustic, comfort, and other concerns. -
Thermal Analysis
- Temperature effects are of huge concern to mechanical and electromagnetic analysts. Heat’s effects on materials and transfer through the system is a complex multiphysics problem, potentially requiring capability in multiple software solutions.
- Key capabilities:
- Steady-state & transient
- Coupled thermal-stress analysis
- Heat transfer
- Coupled structures, fluids, and electromagnetics - Ideal for:
- True understanding of operational conditions when temperature effects are significant. -
Durability Analysis
- Long-term durability of products is enormously important to human safety and to company reputation. Effective analysis requires sophisticated tools to handle sensitive material models in complex and cumulative loading scenarios.
- Key capabilities:
- Life cycle prediction
- Fatigue & creep damage
- Safety factors
- Base material, weld, or spot joint fatigue
- Crack prediction - Ideal for:
- Ensuring long-term durability in all intended operational conditions, especially in lightweight design and materials. -
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Multibody Dynamics
- Multibody dynamics is essential for understanding assembly behavior and loading in motion, verifying clearances, providing loads for downstream analysis, and more.
- Key capabilities:
- Kinematic/dynamic motion studies
- Flexible body interface with Abaqus
- Vehicle dynamics & durability
- Realtime ADAS simulation - Ideal for:
- Ensuring assembly motion is viable as intended.
- Providing input data for structural FEA. -
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Manufacturing Analysis
- Simulation can be used on more than just product performance. When used on manufacturing processes, there's the opportunity to eliminate extremely costly retool and redesign efforts.
- Key capabilities:
- Metal forming
- Plastic injection molding (fill, pack, warp) - Ideal for:
- Ensuring product manufacturing will succeed before tooling. -
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Multiphysics
- Accurate product performance prediction, in many cases, must account for multiple kinds of physics. Pulling that off in FEA may require advanced skills, multiple solutions and workflows, and familiarity with the quirks of putting it all together.
- Key capabilities:
- Coupled eulerian-lagrangian
- Hydrostatic-fluid-mechanical
- Fluid-structure interaction
- Piezoelectric
- Structural acoustics - Ideal for:
- True understanding of operating conditions when fluids, structures, and electromagnetism act interdependently. -
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Material Calibration
- Virtual prototyping is the level of simulation we all aspire to, but it can only be that accurate with correct material models. We have the tools and experience to get that data and conduct those simulations.
- Key capabilities:
- Material evaluation
- Material model development - Ideal for:
- Building virtual prototyping methodologies by incorporating real-world data specific to you. -
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Design Optimization
- One of the most powerful applications of FEA is the use of automated simulation to guide design parameters or even topology. With the right tools and careful model setup, a sophisticated analysis loop and iterate toward the ideal design within the requested constraints.
- Key capabilities:
- Topology, shape, & bead optimization
- Parametric optimization
- Design of experiments - Ideal for:
- Generating or altering designs to meet multiple specific performance targets with maximum efficiency. -
The goal with any analysis is to replicate real-world physical results. Once a trusted methodology has been established and you have accurate results, FEA becomes an essential part of your product development lifecycle. FEA can speed up the design process by identifying problems early in the product development cycle. This leads to a reduction in the number of revisions necessary and time spent on physical prototyping/testing thus allowing companies to get to market faster.
All product development can be enhanced with simulation, whether as a prediction and optimization tool beforehand, or a diagnostic and problem-solving tool for a released design. FEA makes it easier and more cost-efficient to engineer solutions.
They can be very accurate with the right inputs, tools, methodologies, and sufficient understanding of the physics and FEA. Our experts engage in best practices including validated material models, proper meshing techniques, and real-world loading conditions. If we begin with a physical test correlation project before simulating new designs, this provides the highest level of confidence in the results. Any physical data that is available can be very useful in tuning FEA simulated boundary and loading conditions in order to achieve correlation.
Timelines vary based on complexity, but we offer expedited options for urgent projects. The GoEngineer simulation consulting team is generally able to begin new projects quickly, within a day or two of receiving a purchase order. Furthermore, once a simulation methodology is established, repeated projects, such as design iterations and long-term engagements over similar products, become extremely efficient.
Pricing depends on complexity—contact us for a quote, and we’ll outline a cost-effective approach tailored to your needs and budget.
For structural simulation, we primarily use Abaqus and 3DEXPERIENCE STRUCTURAL (which is based on Abaqus). We use fe-safe for fatigue analysis, Tosca Optimization Suite for topology optimization, and Isight for parametric optimization. The 3DEXPERIENCE SIMULATION portfolio provides us multiphysics across structural, fluid, and electromagnetic physics.
Yes, we accept all kinds of CAD for analysis, typically exported to a neutral format such as STEP. However, we can work on native SOLIDWORKS and CATIA files using the Abaqus/CAE connectors, and we can work natively with any CAD that is housed on your 3DEXPERIENCE Platform tenant if you provide the appropriate permissions.
A detailed report with complete model setup details and whatever results you deem necessary, such as deformation plots, stresses, reaction forces, animations, recommendations for design improvements, etc. The FEA models may also be provided.
Absolutely. Our experts don’t just provide data—we help you understand the results and suggest actionable design improvements.
We offer access to high-end software, powerful computing resources, and specialized expertise—without the overhead of maintaining an in-house simulation team, the learning curve of becoming an expert, and the necessary licensing and computing.
Ideally, we start with your material test data. However, we can source industry-standard values or conduct sensitivity studies.
Yes! By identifying areas where material can be optimized without sacrificing performance and safety, FEA helps reduce waste and production costs.
Yes, we do. In addition to design comparisons and guidance, we have the software and hardware to conduct large scale, automated parametric and topology optimization studies.
We provide clear insights into failure modes and suggest practical design modifications to resolve potential issues.
Yes, we often build and run FEA models for regulatory compliance in many industries.
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Our team can help at any level, from augmenting your own CFD group to completely CFD analysis, in traditional or custom methodologies.
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