By Ola Rollén, Hexagon President and CEO If you’re fascinated by disruptive forces of nature like I am, you’re probably tracking the big disruptive event happening in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, on the big island of Hawaii. One of its five volcanos, Kilauea, has been spewing out lava, disrupting life near the quaint town …
We are excited to announce the new release of MSC Nastran 2018.2, focused to deliver a better simulation workflow within the automotive and aerospace industries. FEA Simulations play a major role in design and development of complex automotive structures. They are cheaper, faster, and provide safer designs. While performing a Finite Element (FE) analysis is …
With more than 30,000 additively manufactured parts a year going into aircraft, trains, and high end automobiles, Additive Manufacturing has now become an effective industrial production technique. While AM brings valuable opportunities to the industry (weight saving, customization, decreased time-to-market), it still faces the same challenges other manufacturing processes face such as injection molding to …
During my career as a stress analyst, I have used several commercial Finite Element codes but when it comes to nonlinear analysis, Marc is the solution that really stands out. The complete element library, material models, and robust nonlinear algorithms enable Marc to solve problems from large deformations to material nonlinearity to general contact and …
Our 2018 MSC Japan User’s Conference recently took place at the beautiful TKP Garden City Shinagawa. With over 800 attendees, the event focused on solving new challenges and the ever-growing role of simulation in engineering. The keynote was presented by Teruya Sakurai, Professor of the University of Tsukuba and Director of Artificial Intelligence Science Center, on …
Interview with Dr. Hendrik Schafstall of Simufact by d1g1tal AGENDA. Dr. Schafstall, what makes your company deal with additive metal manufacturing? We at Simufact have set ourselves the general goal of numerically reproducing production processes. And this includes additive manufacturing. Our first product in this regard focuses on the widespread powder bed melting, which is only …