BETA CAE Systems S.A.

BETA CAE Systems S.A. is a software and engineering company specializing in the development of high-performance pre- and post-processing software for finite element analysis and several other CAE applications. Its flagship products, ANSA and µETA, are distributed and supported worldwide and set the standards in CAE pre- and post-processing for many industry sectors.

ANSA

Some of the key CAE pre-processing features of ANSA are:

• High performance CAD functions and geometry clean up
• Shell and volume element generation and modification
• Parts assembly and welding modeling, fuel tank analysis and BiW bath traps analysis

ANSA owes its success to a number of innovative concepts such as:

• Direct associativity of mesh to geometry
• Versatile concept of meshing areas
• In-house developed fast and robust meshing algorithms,
• Flexible merging and coupling of CAD and mesh data,
• Automated features for the modification of FE-models (for quality improvement, refinement or coarsening of existing meshes)
• Mesh integrity, quality check and improvement according to solver specific quality criteria
• A morphing tool for fast and versatile FE-model shape modification

ANSA also offers full support for major FEA packages (pre-processing decks for NASTRAN, ABAQUS, LS-DYNA, PAM-CRASH 2G and RADIOSS) and compatibility with other mesh file formats.

Specific CFD-oriented tools for shell and solid element mesh generation, reconstruction and FLUENT interfacing are integrated into ANSA.