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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2021
Dassault Systemes Americas Corp., Waltham, MA (US);
Marco Spinelli, Dartmouth, MA (US);
Harrington Hunter Harkness, Canton, MA (US);
Dassault Systemes Americas Corp., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention allow computer-aided design (CAD) software users to accurately model contact behavior of a real-world object with minimal simulation overhead. An embodiment automatically generates contact entities to represent extremities of a surface of a beam element model according to an indicated cross-sectional geometry of the beam element model. A mesh is established based on the automatically generated contact entities to represent geometrical aspects of the surface of the beam element model. A simulation, where the mesh is constrained according to aspects of the beam element model, is then performed to determine contact behavior of the real-world object.