Materialise Launches Mimics Educational Program

Lake Tahoe, CA – Materialise announces the launch of the Mimics Educational Program – MimicsSE (Student Edition). The program was unveiled at the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference in Lake Tahoe, CA. Mimics SE was born out of a need expressed by professors to get cutting edge technology in the hands of students in order to set them apart... [Read more]

Gel Loudspeaker Analyzed with Multiphysics Modeling

Take a Gel Audio transducer, place it on a surface, and get sound? Yes, but it required an analysis that goes several steps beyond normal FEA. We think of loudspeakers as separate boxes.  But engineers at SFX Technologies Ltd. are using Comsol Multiphysics to design loudspeaker drivers that use nearly any surface – from a tabletop to walls, mirrors,... [Read more]

Mountain Bike Company Uses FEA to Design Fast Bikes Faster

Santa Cruz Bicycles makes best-in-class, fully suspended mountain bikes.  Located in Santa Cruz, CA, the company was started to make suspension bicycles more efficient to ride uphill and faster downhill without sacrificing durability.  Now we are using FEA to analyze stresses and design bike frames that won’t break under brutal competitive... [Read more]

Bentley Motors Implements Icona Solutions’ aesthetica

Manchester, UK – Bentley Motors has implemented Icona Solutions’ innovative perceived quality simulation software, aesthetica, at its design and manufacturing plant in Crewe, England. It is being used to streamline and improve the process of achieving consistently high perceived quality in the company’s vehicles without negatively impacting development... [Read more]

MSC Software Medical Device Industry Upcoming Webcast

MSC Software Upcoming Webcast March 10, 2009 Medical Device Industry – Webcast Series: Simulate More… Improve Lives! Register for this Webcast Series to hear from industry experts on how simulation-driven development is used by device manufacturers to bring new competitive product concepts to life faster at less cost.Topics include: *... [Read more]

NXNastran Solves World’s Largest Structural Analysis Problem

Siemens PLM Software has achieved a computational break-through in implicit finite element analysis (FEA) technology. Using commercially available hardware, the production version of NX Nastran software was able to solve a structural analysis problem with a half-billion equations “virtually overnight.” The analysis was conducted to simulate the... [Read more]

CFD Simulation Overcomes Thermal Challenges of Ambient Light TV Technology

TV-maker Philips used Flotherm simulation software from Mentor Graphics to develop a mechanical design for its new Aurea 42-in. liquid crystal diode (LCD) television that is 3 to 5° C better than previous proposed concepts. Genevieve Martin, Project Leader for Philips, used thermal simulation from the early stages of the development process to investigate... [Read more]

COMSOL Expands Presence in India

BANGALORE, INDIA – The COMSOL Group, developer of COMSOL Multiphysics®, today announced the opening of a full-service office in Bangalore, India. The India office will market and sell the industry-leading multiphysics simulation environment from COMSOL and provide technical support services to its customers.The decision to establish an office... [Read more]

EADS Selects MSC.Software as Major Simulation Partner

SANTA ANA, CA – MSC.Software (NASDAQ: MSCS) announced that it has been selected by EADS as major partner for Virtual Product Development (VPD) solutions across all EADS business divisions as part of the EADS PHENIX initiative. PHENIX is an EADS group-wide strategic initiative launched in 2007 to achieve harmonization and standardization of enterprise... [Read more]

NEi at Atlantic Design and Manufacturing Show

WESTMINSTER, CA--Noran Engineering, Inc. (NEi) announced that it will demonstrate new analysis and simulation software at the Atlantic Design and Manufacturing Show, June 3-5, 2008 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. NEi is at Booth # 338. Digital prototyping technology developed by NEi enables product engineers to visualize the response of... [Read more]