Using a Next-Generation Materials Lifecycle Management System to Address Process Issues with Additive Manufacturing Some of the challenges faced by companies involved in additive manufacturing include the lack of a central repository where materials attributes are stored, high scrap rates, and a lack of process repeatability. However, MSC Software’s Materials Lifecycle Management …
Bringing Additive Manufacturing Closer to Its Golden Age: Solving Problems with Materials Characterization, Process Variation and Machine Qualification Additive manufacturing is being widely used today in many different industries. It has become increasingly popular in the last two decades as the cost to print has decreased. Additive manfuacturing makes production faster, it can manufacture …
When early manufacturing giants realized that their mass production techniques would not be effective if they wished to maintain their competitive edge, they started to research new manufacturing methods. One of the most remarkable outcomes of these efforts was rapid prototyping. In the past, production had always been a way to convert or shape a …
Architects and acoustic consultants struggle to accurately estimate the vibration reduction index for their building designs. ISO 10848 defines a method for measuring this, but it is a long, tedious and expensive process which is implemented by building two rooms and their junctions one by one, exciting the wall and measuring the flanking and direct noise. This process must be done for each building design. When the design changes or the desired results are not achieved, the structure must be demolished and built again from the beginning.
Adaptive meshing is a simulation technique used to automatically remesh parts of a finite element model during the solution phase, based on certain criteria set at the start of the analysis. Adaptive meshing can be broadly classified into two types – global remeshing and local adaptivity. Global adaptive meshing is extremely useful for cases where …
This article was originally posted by Bob Schmitz, Senior Business Development Manager for e-Xstream engineering on Composites World magazine. Traditionally we have designed, characterized new materials with physical testing by using simple coupon tests, which are affordable and the results have generally been accepted as fact, even if the sample size is small. However, material science has …
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