materials – Simulating Reality, Delivering Certainty

Additive Manufacturing Modeling, Simulation, and Lifecycle Management

Product Marketing — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 16:48:52 +0000

The expansion of additive manufacturing has created a need for simulation and data management tools that will help engineers optimize the 3D printing process in order to reduce production costs, increase robustness/reliability and improve performance by optimizing design. This blog post will explore how MSC’s simulation tools are currently being used by customers to advance 3D printing.

Left of Test: How Manufacturing Variability Affects Material Properties

Product Marketing — Tue, 24 May 2016 17:00:54 +0000

For manufacturers, materials property data plays a significant role in strengthening product design, manufacturing process, after market performance and profitability. This is mainly because knowing property data gives manufacturers the ability to determine engineering property matrix. Uncontrollable and unscalable variation of material property can result in lack of prediction, thus governance on the material behavior ...

Nonlinear Analysis – Optimization of a Traditional Wrench

Product Marketing — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:39:58 +0000

Topic: A colleague of mine recently forwarded me a paper titled Virtual DOE of an Open-End Wrench. What caught my attention was the use of design of experiment to create a new wrench called the Claw. Does it actually look like a claw? Yes. For those interested in reading more about the use of Design ...

2 Free Composites Technology Days with MSC Nastran

Product Marketing — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:13:04 +0000

Can MSC Nastran beter allow you to design your advanced composite material designs? To help you answer this question, MSC Software be hosting 2 Free Composites Technology days with MSC Nastran, and you are invited to attend. Topics that will be covered include: First Ply Failure Delmaniation Residual strength Crack assessment Optimize composite materials for ...