In Pursuit of a Cool Motorcycle Engine Block

(The following is excerpted from a paper by Dr. K. K. Bhatia, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, that was presented at a recent COMSOL conference.  To learn more read the research paper: www.COMSOL.com/academic/papers/1529) Although personal computers have brought major changes to higher education, a debate continues as to when the appropriate time... [Read more]

FEA Analysis Helps Energize Cells

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, photovoltaic power will be competitive in price with traditional sources of electricity within 10 years.  1 Contributing to this trend, Solar Power Industries, Inc. (SPI) of Belle Vernon, PA, uses finite element analysis (FEA) software from Pittsburgh-based ALGOR Inc., as a tool for developing faster, more... [Read more]

Ferrari Selects Moog for Formula-1 Simulator

EAST AURORA, N.Y. — Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B ) announced that Ferrari has placed an order for the engineering, design, development and deployment of a next-generation driving simulator to be located at Ferrari’s headquarters in Maranello, Italy. The system includes a driving simulator featuring a customized motion control solution... [Read more]

MSC.Software Acquires The MacNeal Group

SANTA ANA, Calif. – MSC.Software (NASDAQ: MSCS), the leading global provider of enterprise simulation solutions, including Nastran software and services, today announced that it has acquired the MacNeal Group (tMG). The MacNeal Group was founded by Dr. Richard MacNeal, a pioneer for the CAE market and the leading authority on finite element... [Read more]

Bone Simulations to Aid Diagnosis of Osteoporosis

Venice, Italy, and Zurich, Switzerland — Using an IBM®Blue Gene/L supercomputer, scientists of the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory demonstrated the most extensive simulation yet of real human bone structures, providing doctors with a “high-definition” view of fragility or strength of... [Read more]

Virtually Test Maritime Vehicles

New software from NEi Nastran lets engineers virtually test air, land, and maritime vehicles and components for mechanical stress, deformation, vibration, thermal and other technical parameters at the design stage, before the fabrication of prototypes or parts.  The virtual test technology includes Automated Impact Analysis (AIA™), composite... [Read more]

CFD on Windows Cluster

The AcuSolve™ computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver now supports Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS). This development lets you access a robust, scalable, fast and accurate CFD program in the Windows high-performance computing (HPC) environment.This general-purpose, finite element-based CFD solver lets you seamlessly integrate CFD analysis... [Read more]

Integrated Software Package Leads to Better Simulation

The 2008 release of MSC.Software’s engineering analysis suite and MD Technologies is now available. The concurrent release leverages existing MSC.Software single analysis point tools to MD’s multiple discipline analysis. The solver in MD improves simulation accuracy and system level analysis, reducing the gap between systems simulation and physical... [Read more]

ALGOR Releases ALGOR V22

PITTSBURGH, PA – ALGOR, Inc. announced that its latest, major finite element analysis (FEA) software release, ALGOR V22, significantly upgrades all areas of FEA – modeling, simulation and results evaluation and presentation.New and improved features include: expanded support for 64-bit systems, now including pre-processing and post-processing,... [Read more]

Using FEA to Explore Viscoelastic Effects

Viscoelasticity, or the inherent ability of plastic and elastomer materials to move with load and deformation, is rate-dependent behavior and is most commonly known as creep and stress relaxation.  Stress relaxation is the decay of stress over time when placed under a constant strain.  Creep is the increase in deformation or strain under a... [Read more]