Shooting for the Moon

ANSYS, Inc. has signed on an official sponsor of Astrobotic Technology Inc.’s Tranquility Trek mission, which involves developing a rocket-launched robot as part of the Google Lunar X Prize competition. As a sponsor, ANSYS is providing its multiphysics engineering simulation software in the development of the robot, lander, and payload adapter... [Read more]

Virtual Prototyping with 3D CAD

by Brian MacCleery, National Instruments and Stephen Endersby, Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. Design failures may be the key to success in designing complex motion control machinery.  Failing early and often may lead to rapid design success.  Every mistake you catch in the early phases of development is a potential avoided catastrophe. Any programming... [Read more]

ANSYS Only Engineering Simulation Software Provider Named on Shareholder Performance Index

ANSYS, Inc., today announced that it has been named as the only engineering simulation software provider on this year’s Oliver Wyman Shareholder Performance IndexSM (SPI). This international ranking assesses the performance of firms in the communications, media and technology (CMT) industries. With an overall SPI score of 235, ANSYS placed 13th... [Read more]

COMSOL Releases Beta Edition of Multiphysics Version 4.0

MILAN, ITALY & BURLINGTON, MA — At the Fifth Annual COMSOL Conference held in Milan, COMSOL released to all attendees and media the beta edition of COMSOL Multiphysics 4.0, its market-leading multiphysics modeling and simulation environment. Version 4.0 delivers the COMSOL Desktop™, an all-new user interface that makes it easy for users to... [Read more]

Webinar Demonstrates Femap Tips for Increasing Productivity

Westminster, CA – NEi Software is hosting a webinar titled “Femap Tips for Increasing Productivity” on September 23 at 11:00 AM PDT. The webinar is intended to provide engineers and designers who are currently using Femap tips and tricks to help increase productivity with the software. For people who are not currently using Femap,... [Read more]

NEi Software Celebrates 15 Years of Femap Support

Westminster, CA – NEi Software is celebrating 15 years of excellence in support of Femap® Finite Element Modeling Pre- and Post-Processing software. Femap by Siemens is a Windows-based Finite Element pre- and post-processor used by engineering organizations worldwide to model various products, processes, and systems.In combination with NEi... [Read more]

Infolytica to Release MagNet v7 Multi-threaded for Faster Solutions

Montreal, Canada – Infolytica Corporation announced that MagNet, the company’s electromagnetic field simulation software based on finite element analysis, will include significant changes in the next release which is due out this fall. Version 7 will be a multi-threaded application and will leverage the computation power available with... [Read more]

Waterloo U Racing Team Wins CFdesign Award

For “best use of CFD as a design tool,” Blue Ridge Numerics has honored the University of Waterloo Formula Motorsports team.  Waterloo U earned the 2009 Formula SAE CFdesign Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Award, presented during the FSAE 2009 competition at the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan.  Blue Ridge Numerics... [Read more]

Realistic Simulation Probes Biomechanics of Knees

Scripps Health researchers use Abaqus FEA to optimize new designs and explore surgical alternatives Even before Tiger Woods withdrew from the 2008 golf season after hobbling to a win at the U.S. Open, certain researchers into biomechanics were concerned about the health of his left knee. Woods’ injury occurred around the same time that the Orthopedic... [Read more]

Two Webinar Series Show How Simulation Cuts Design Costs and Improves Function

MSC Software is hosting two series of webinars dealing with design of energy facilities. Intent is to demonstrate how engineering simulation and virtual prototyping is being used to lower design costs and improve functional performance.  One of the two series focuses on oil and gas equipment; the other targets design of nuclear plants.  If... [Read more]