VTM standalone

The VTM (Vehicle Trim Modeler) Standalone solver is ideally suited for modeling the low frequency response of poroelastic materials.  VTM includes advanced poroelastic finite element formulations and robust projection algorithms for fully coupling structural, fluid and poroelastic domains.  The VTM solver can also be easily integrated into existing Nastran solution processes.

• Create more accurate models of poroelastic materials in existing low frequency Nastran FE models
• Replace lumped mass descriptions of vehicle trim with detailed full Biot models to find the impact of trim on a vehicle body
• Model non-heteregenous layups to create novel sound package designs
• Create full vehicle low frequency FE models
• Create component level models and use to update insertion loss in system level SEA models

Features

• Solver optimized for large FE structural and acoustic models
• Full library of Biot finite elements for modeling foam materials
• Easily apply different boundary conditions between domains
• Automatic handling of non-compatible meshes between domain
• Import of Nastran structural and acoustic models