Audience
Companies searching for a solution for computing beam properties and recovering 3D fields of composite beams
About VABS
VABS is a popular general-purpose cross-sectional analysis tool for quickly and easily computing beam properties and recovering 3D fields of composite beams, including helicopter and wind turbine blades. It is the only tool capable of rigorously decoupling an original 3D slender solid with complex microstructure into a simple engineering beam model. AnalySwift’s roots are in the aerospace industry, where its tools have been used for composite beams (helicopter rotor blades, propellers, high aspect ratio wings, wing section design), plates/shells, and 3D structures. Used for several years in the wind turbine industry, VABS delivers rapid, rigorous results when modeling wind turbine blades. SwiftComp provides additional solutions for plates/shells, and 3D structures manufactured from composites. As the automobile industry adopts a higher use of composites, opportunities increase to leverage SwiftComp and VABS to model a wide variety of structures, including beams, plates, shells, etc.
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AnalySwift
Founded: 2011
United States
analyswift.com
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VABS Product Features
Simulation
1D Simulation
3D Modeling
3D Simulation
Agent-Based Modeling
Design Analysis
Industry Specific Database
Presentation Tools
Turbulence Modeling
Continuous Modeling
Direct Manipulation
Discrete Event Modeling
Dynamic Modeling
Graphical Modeling
Monte Carlo Simulation
Motion Modeling
Stochastic Modeling