The defense industry operates in an environment defined by strict safety requirements, complex systems integration, and rapidly evolving technological demands. Equipment must perform reliably under extreme conditions while meeting rigorous certification standards and tight development timelines. Advanced simulation has become essential to address these challenges, enabling engineers to predict performance, optimize designs, reduce physical testing, and accelerate innovation while ensuring mission readiness and operational reliability.
Supporting advanced rate-dependent constitutive models such as Johnson-Cook, FORGE® enables accurate simulation of material behavior under extreme dynamic loads. Deformation, stress localization, and failure mechanisms in components such as projectile cores or ballistic protection panels can be reliably assessed.
FORGE® can be extended to simulate pressure field evolution, stress wave propagation, and fragmentation risk under explosive loading. Its automatic remeshing engine ensures numerical stability throughout the large deformations encountered in such configurations, which is a critical requirement for this class of problems.
MBDA produces thin-walled, high-strength aluminum tubes using a flow forming process with a mandrel, rollers, and tailstock, a precise technique requiring exceptional skill.
MBDA combined experimental tests and 3D FORGE® simulations to predict forming forces, residual stresses, and mechanical properties of aluminum tubes with high precision.
2.png)
.svg)
.svg)
.svg)
