Add-on Modules for Material Analyses
For VGSTUDIO MAX*
Material analyses to reveal what’s below the surface of your scanned parts: the add-on modules for material analyses offered by Volume Graphics.
- Locates pores, holes, and inclusions within parts and provides detailed information about these defects.
- Calculates various parameters for each defect (defect position, defect compactness, defect size and geometry, gap to closest defect, distance of each defect to a reference surface).
- Shows if and how pores would be cut during machining—before actually machining the part (CAD file of the part required).
- Calculates the overall percentage of porosity and visualizes it in a defect volume histogram.
- Finds defects of different shapes using the filter function.
- Identifies areas with high porosity as porosity hot spots.
- Visualizes both individual defects and locally averaged porosity color-coded, as a table, or as a scatterplot.
- Exports analysis results to MAGMASOFT ® as .emv file or loads them onto an existing PATRAN ® or NASTRAN ® mesh for FEM simulation or comparison with casting simulations.
- Uses the VGEasyPore algorithm for an easy-to-use and fast defect detection, based on relative or absolute definition of the minimum local contrast of pores.
- Uses the VGDefX defect detection algorithm for an optimized calculation of defects based on different criteria.
Color-coded visualization of detected inclusions in a 2D view with simulated machining, and as a table
- Supports defect analyses in accordance with the VDG rules P 202 (VW 50093) and P 201 (VW 50097)
- Eliminates the need for the time-consuming production of micrograph sections and the preparation of samples in many cases
- Quantifies the surface size of defects in CT slice images automatically
- Supports templates to rapidly and repeatedly analyze all parts without manual intervention
- Includes local adaptive mode for improved pore detection
2D analysis according to P 202/P 201 directly in the CT data
- Gain insights into fiber composite materials such as carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) or glass-reinforced plastic (GRP).
- Calculate, e.g., local fiber orientations, local fiber volume fractions, global fiber orientation distributions, and global volume fractions.
- Display local fiber orientation in color code or as vectors or tensors.
- View the detailed angular distribution of any number of directions in a 2D histogram.
- Determine the main orientations for fabrics or rovings.
- Display global orientation distribution, e.g., as a histogram.
- Produce line plots of the individual components of the orientation tensor in order to easily compare nominal and actual values.
- Import meshes thanks to the support of PATRAN® and NASTRAN® files.
- Export analyzed material properties for use in your simulation software.
Analyze fiber composites, color-code different fiber orientations, see main directions, and display orientation distributions.
Top: Orientation tensor for the three main directions. The horizontal axis indicates the horizontal position (in the plate). Bottom: Corresponding slice selection.
- Analyzes the structure of cells in porous media and of grains in powders.
- For example:
- Cell/grain volumes, surfaces and sphericities
- Contact surfaces
- Strut thicknesses/gap widths
- Euler number
- Average and total curvature
- Shows your results color-coded, as a histogram, or as a table.
- Allows you to use active columns to switch easily between different parameters.
- Enables you to exclude border area to limit unwanted side effects.
Visualize foam or foam-like structures and calculate properties.
- Quantify displacements between an initial and deformed volume in a simple and intuitive way.
- Use it—in material science—for quantifying deformations of the visible inner structure of composite materials, foams, or porous components produced by additive manufacturing.
- Easily calculate and export strain tensors and detect damage in your material by using the voxel-based before-after comparison.
- Use VGSTUDIO MAX's built-in registration functions and the subvoxel-accurate determination of displacements and strain fields to conveniently align the initial and the deformed volume.
- Impressively visualize results—such as deformations—by using vector fields and strain lines.
- View the equivalent strain or individual components of the strain tensor as a color overlay.
- Validate the results of your FEM simulations by mapping the strain tensor directly on a volume mesh.
- Import these meshes either from other programs, e.g., Patran (.pat) or Abaqus (.inp), or generate them by using the Volume Meshing Module.
- Detect arising singularities, like cracks and pores that can hardly be seen with the naked eye, by comparing the initial and the deformed image.
* Depending on the platform, there are differences in the range of functions for different operating systems. See our continuously updated Product Information page for details.