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LS-DYNA LS-DYNA developed by Livermore Software Technology Corp. (LSTC) is a multi-purpose explicit and implicit finite element program used to analyse the nonlinear response of structures. Its fully automated contact analysis and wide range of material models enable users worldwide to solve complex real world problems ApplicationsLS-DYNA is used by companies and universities worldwide to simulate a whole range of different engineering problems. These include: Crashworthiness Occupant Protection Metal Forming Product Testing Drop Testing High Velocity Impacts Blast Loading Biomedical Seismic Analysis Staged Construction Pore Water Pressure Consolidation Crashworthiness SimulationFor many automotive companies LS-DYNA is a tool for understanding the deformation of complex systems such as vehicle structures. The ability of LS-DYNA to model contacts and its wide range of...

The use of FLOW-3D Cast in your casting design process translates directly to savings that improve your company\’s bottom line. FLOW-3D Cast provides engineers and designers with powerful tools to enhance their experience and expertise. The savings come from cost reductions and cost avoidance. Now, quality and productivity issues can be solved in less time and with lower costs by evaluating alternative concepts with simulation before die steel is cut or molds are modified. And, the effectiveness of new tool development can be improved by solving the problems before production begins. FLOW-3D Cast contains a wide variety of physical models specially designed for casting. These special models include algorithms for lost foam casting, non-Newtonian fluids, and die cycling. If you...

MSC Nastran is the world\’s most widely used Finite Element Analysis (FEA) solver that helped MSC Software become recognized in 2011 as one of the \”10 Original Software Companies\”. When it comes to solving for stress/strain behavior, dynamic and vibration response and thermal gradients in real-world systems, MSC Nastran is recognized as the most trusted multidiscipline solver in the world. MSC Nastran is built on work done by NASA scientists and researchers, and is trusted for the design of mission critical systems in every industry. Nearly every spacecraft, aircraft, and vehicle designed in the last 40 years has been analyzed using MSC Nastran. In recent years, several extensions to its capabilities have resulted in a single multidisciplinary solver providing users...

SimXpert is a next generation CAE application that empowers engineers to perform an expansive range of multidisciplinary simulations by delivering new tools that accelerate learning curves and shorten model preparation and setup times all within a fully integrated user environment.Key capabilities include: Single Environment unifies linear & nonlinear FEA with multibody dynamics Template builder for automation of CAE best practices Native CAD access obsoletes geometry translation Multidiscipline analysis for real-world CAE accuracy Industry Uses: Automotive: Powertrain, Seals and gaskets, Brakes, Suspension, Gear contact, Multi-body dynamics Aerospace and Defense: Landing gear, Composites, Wing structures, Fuselage, Seals and hoses, Sheet metal forming Heavy Equipment: Gears, Steering yokes, Belts, Hoses, Manufacturing Medical: Stents, Catheters, Pacemakers, Dental and knee implants, Prosthetics, Muscle and tissue,...

Patran is the world\’s most widely used pre/post-processing software for Finite Element Analysis (FEA), providing solid modeling, meshing, analysis setup and post-processing for multiple solvers including MSC Nastran, Marc, Abaqus, LS-DYNA, ANSYS, and Pam-Crash. Patran provides a rich set of tools that streamline the creation of analysis ready models for linear, nonlinear, explicit dynamics, thermal, and other finite element solutions. From geometry cleanup tools that make it easy for engineers to deal with gaps and slivers in CAD, to solid modeling tools that enable creation of models from scratch, Patran makes it easy for anyone to create FE models. Meshes are easily created on surfaces and solids alike using fully automated meshing routines, manual methods that provide more control, or...

MSC Software Corporation, the leader in multidiscipline simulation solutions that accelerate product innovation, announced Adams 2012. This release of Adams delivers an all-new user interface and new model browser that simplifies model setup; new automatic flexible body generation to support efficient, high-fidelity system modeling; and an innovative tire model to complement the improved selection of standard events and road profile formats available for vehicle simulations. – All-new User InterfaceThe Adams 2012 user interface provides a new ribbon-style format and intuitive layout. The new ribbon offers improved labels, thereby making model construction easier and more user-friendly. Engineers will find the main toolbox and build menu functions in a series of tabs for model entity construction, simulation, and post-processing actions, and icon...

When the ability to solve heat transfer problems is essential for delivering a product of robust, high quality, you need thermal analysis software with a proven track record for accuracy, reliability, and flexibility. The Sinda family of thermal design products has been relied on by aerospace and high technology companies worldwide for over a quarter century.Sinda Analyzer Since no two designs are alike, the Sinda analyzer provides a variety of steady state and transient solution methods plus the ability to customize and optimize a thermal model by adding whatever degree of programming logic the problem requires. Sinda uses a resistance-capacitance networking approach to thermal analysis that is user-intuitive. To simplify model building and clearly display the results, Sinda transparently links...

FEMFAT (Finite Element Method Fatigue) is the number one engineering software tool for fatigue life prediction. FEMFAT is a tool designed to identify critical locations and supports the light weight optimization process at an early development stage, way before time- and cost-consuming tests will be performed. This results in high confident level to release prototypes, therefore less development loops and costly hardware tests. Continuously developed over the last 20 years, FEMFAT provides reliable results to release virtual prototypes in an early development stage. FEMFAT is widely used in the automotive and non-automotive industry and trusted to be the number one tool for CAE. The binding link between test track, laboratory and CAE is FEMFAT LAB. It supports development engineers with...

ANSYS 14.5 provides a great number of new and advanced features that deliver solutions for customers to amplify engineering, simulate their most complex engineered products, and drive innovation with high-performance computing (HPC). New features in ANSYS 14.5 deliver additional physics depth and breadth that can be scaled to meet the changing needs of customers. The advances have been developed with guidance from our most innovative customers, delivering a comprehensive solution for Simulation Driven Product Development.ANSYS is the leading provider of electromagnetic field, circuit and system simulation software for the design of high-performance electronic equipment and electromechanical devices. Companies throughout the world rely on ANSYS electromagnetic solutions when designing mobile communication, internet access, broadband networking components and systems, integrated circuits (ICs)...

ESI VA One product of ESI GROUP is intended for design and analysis of VibrationThe program allows to take into account the optimal characteristics of the noise and vibration at the design stage and ensure the implementation of vibro-acoustic requirements without the cost and weight increase.The innovative integration of finite element analysis (FEA) and the statistical method of analysis (SEA) in the same model allows the user to solve problems as effectively as in the separate application of methods SEA and FEA VA One includes, of course, AutoSEA2, vibro-acoustic analysis of the standard program for the medium and high frequencies, and Rayon, solver, has already proved its efficiency in the vibro-acoustic analysis for the low frequency region. In addition, VA...