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About Structural Analysis
Click Home > Analyses and Studies to open the Analyses and Design Studies dialog box to define a structural analysis.
You can define the following types of structural analyses:
• Static—Calculates deformations, stresses, and strains on your model in response to specified loads and subject to specified constraints.
• Prestress Static—Uses results from a static analysis to calculate deformations, stresses, and strains on your model.
• Static Analysis with Large Deformation —Calculates geometrically nonlinear deformations and stresses in a static analysis.
• Static Analysis with Contact Interfaces—Calculates the effects of loads on contacts in your model.
• Static Analysis of Models with Elastoplastic Materials—Calculates the effects of nonlinear elastoplastic materials.
• Static Analysis of Models with Hyperelastic Materials—Calculates the effects of nonlinear hyperelastic materials.
• Modal—Calculates the natural frequencies and mode shapes of your model.
• Prestress Modal—Uses results from a static analysis to calculate the natural frequencies and mode shapes of your model.
• Buckling—Uses results from a static analysis to determine the critical magnitudes of loads at which a structure will buckle.
• Fatigue—Uses results from a static analysis to calculate the effect of fatigue loading on the life of your model.
For static, prestress static, large deformation, contact, and buckling analyses, Creo Simulate automatically calculates all measures valid for a static analysis. For modal and prestress modal analyses, Creo Simulate automatically calculates all measures that are valid for a modal analysis.
See Sample Uses for Prestress and Buckling Analyses for an example of when you might use each of these analysis types.
See Constraint and Load Sets in Structural Analyses for information on including load sets and constraint sets in your analyses.