Meshless Simulation Software Applied to the Preliminary Design Phase of the Product Development Process

Abstract

The study involves the construction and validation of a product development method using meshless simulation software in the preliminary phase of a project, for the structural and functional evaluation of the concept selected in the conceptual phase, to obtain a more robust concept for the detailed phase. This enhances the efficiency of project development, significantly reducing costs and computational time. Two studies will be carried out using meshless software and finite elements to validate the proposed method. Through computational cost evaluation, it was observed that using the meshless software application method in the preliminary phase resulted in a reduction of approximately 19 times in the time invested in CAE analysis during the product's preliminary development phase.