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Simulation tools are being customized for the products and processes of specific industries, helping companies to focus on what they do best: adding value to their products. This is the [...]

From factories to precision instruments, automation has been hampered by rigid and inflexible programming. But now, methods are being developed that give machine greater latitude in responding to changes in [...]

BECAUSE OF ITS ABILITY to simulate fluid flow digitally, computational fluid dynamics software has become a widely used tool in engineering, biomedical, and environmental research and development in the past [...]

WE WERE AT THE annual meeting of the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences in Nashville when MSC.Software got a call from Bob Carman. The company had collaborated with Carman over [...]

MECHANICAL PROBLEMS OFTEN require the engineer to run more than one type of analysis. Few parts or systems have only one physical force acting on them. But a relatively new [...]

PREDICTIVE TECHNOLOGIES based on a probabilistic method of problem solving are gaining a steady foothold as a method of finding answers to engineering and other types of problems. According to [...]

TO TALK ABOUT HOW a software upgrade or a switch from two-dimensional to three-dimensional computer-aided design software can increase productivity is so common nowadays as to be cliche. But like [...]

A new approach to finite-element analysis is emerging that, in addition to geometry, considers time, motion, and nonlinear behavior to model dynamic events. Since the early 1980s, manufacturers have launched [...]

To create complex, accurate designs, optimization programs incorporate a variety of size and shape parameters that automate the design cycle. AS ENGINEERS WORK with increasingly complex structures, they need rational, [...]

Solid Edge gives you everything you need to automate, accelerate, and simplify mechanical design tasks, including large assembly design, Web-enabled and publishing tools that support Internet collaboration, and utilities to [...]

The most powerful fluid simulation program developed exclusively for design engineers, COSMOS/Flow can model heat transfer, subsonic, transonic, and supersonic, compressible and incompressible gases and [...]

Whether used as an Online System, as a Portable Data Collector or as a Real-time Analyzer, the VCI 5100 combines artificial intelligence with mechanical engineering know-how to diagnose problems such [...]

Beam 20 delivers quick, detailed analysis of complex beams in static bending. A single beam can have an unlimited number of rigid and elastic supports, cross-sections, materials, and loads. Features: [...]

Vibro-Acoustic Sciences has added new functionalities to AutoSEA2. In addition to an improved 3-D rendering engine, the software now includes user-defined SEA (Statistical Energy Analysis), and an interface to Experimental [...]

Once again, CAEPIPE pushes the limits. The new Windows program is comprehensive, usable and efficient. View data simultaneously through multiple windows for input, details, graphics, and results. Unmatched rendering for [...]

100 lbf System $5,395 with Vibrator, base, blower, low-distortion linear amplifier, cables & hose. Digital Controller Packages convert PCs to Vibration Controllers--Sine $3,495. Random $4,495. Random/Classical Shock $5,495. 4-Channel Swept-Sine, [...]

Livermore Software Technology Corp. offers a variety of powerful, comprehensive engineering software tools that are user-friendly and ideal for design, crash, metal forming, bird strike, heat transfer, and many other [...]

Learn Finite Element Analysis using Algor software right at your desktop with hundreds of Internet-based software demo Webcasts and in-depth product training Web Courses at learn5.eTechLearning.com or on CD-ROM. [...]

Engineered Software's PIPE-PLO program is the most innovative fluid flow analysis software available on the market today. The program is used to design, optimize, and troubleshoot new or existing fluid [...]

The OMEGACAT in Pressure Measurement and Instrumentation contains a new selection of leading edge technology products for pressure measurement, including transducers, switches, transmitters, barometers, manometers, calibrators, process meters & controllers [...]

Turn your ideas into reality with high-performance FEA on your Windows system. Accurate solutions in seconds not hours with the fastest direct sparse solver available on the market. Reliable results [...]

Gridgen is the interactive, graphically oriented software system for the generation of 3-D grids. Create quadrilateral and hexahedral grid cells, triangular and tetrahedral grid cells, mapped meshes, hybrid meshes including [...]

Discover what powerful system modeling can mean to your piping systems design with the new version 5.0 of the acclaimed AFT Fathom. Also available: AFT Mercury 5.0 for system optimization, [...]

SAP2000 V8.0 for easier design of steel & concrete structures. Unique capabilities for dynamic analysis of vibrating machinery foundations. Nonlinear time history with plastic hinge, gaps, large deformation at a [...]

When you're doing engineering simulations, analyses or experiments, Tecplot helps you explore your data, produce informative 2-D and 3-D views, and create presentation-quality plots and animations. With the scorching speed, [...]

FEWeId calculates weld performance and sizes from the results of finite element analysis with shell elements, It works with Ansys and Cosmos/M on Win95/98/NT/2000. A database-driven GUI manages complex data [...]

ASME Section 8 Division 1 calculations incorporated for optimum, least-cost designs. Blue Printing, 3-D graphics. English or metric. Add-in modules for wind and seismic analysis. Fast, free tech support. Computer [...]

Power, Precision, Performance...Profit! The ability of CFX-5 to repeatedly demonstrate accuracy across a wide range of performance benchmarks has given us the confidence to incorporate the software fully within our [...]

COMPRESS and sister programs design and rerate pressure vessels, perform finite element analysis on nozzles and appurtenances, estimate fabrication cost, and automatically produce really good fabrication or as-built drawings. Now [...]

With new nonlinear material features such as Anisotropic creep-plus-Kinematic hardening, support for viscoplasticity, and Contact Wizard support of dynamic coefficient of friction with or without an exponential decay. ANSYS 6 [...]

Coade is shipping TANK Version 2.0 in Windows. TANK uses the design and analysis rules of API 650 and 653 for the evaluation of welded steel oil storage tanks. The [...]

PIantFLOW for Windows calculates pressures, flow velocities, and temperatures in gas or liquid piping networks. Thermophysical models including ASME steam tables coupled with flow equation for accurate simulation of non-ideal [...]

AutoPIPE V6.0 provides unique object-oriented graphics that go beyond traditional spreadsheet input and editing. Undo/Redo, buried pipeline analysis, wave loading, advanced dynamic analysis, pipe/structure interaction and more. CAD interfaces with [...]

Capability: Both BluePrintTools-Pro and EXDXF-Pro are Adobe Illustrator plug-ins. The first lets users draw simple blueprints, design with dimension lines, and measure over a curved line. It consists of 13 [...]

Capability: Fem2K is a general-purpose finite element program that performs static, 3-D structural analysis and solves steady state, thermal electrical, or fluid flow problems. The element library includes beams, triangular-quadrilateral [...]

Capability: The software package Guydes can be used for the design and analysis of guy wire-supported steel stacks. The program performs a comprehensive nonlinear analysis of the stack and cable [...]

Capability: Common Rail Fuel Injection System Simulation software, called CRFIS, simulates the performance of a high-pressure common rail fuel-injection system. The simulation model is suitable for Bosch and Denso common [...]

Capability: Laminator version three analyzes laminated composite plates according to classical laminated plate theory. Input consists of ply material properties, material strengths, ply fiber orientation and stacking sequence, mechanical loads [...]

Capability: Flare-Rad implements the thermal design of process safety flares to wet bulb globe temperature, or WBGT, specifications. Using a cone-frustum model of the flame in a crosswind, the software [...]

Capability: PE Explorer allows engineers to view, edit, and repair the internal structures of portable executable, or PE, files. A PE file is the native format of executable binaries (programs, [...]

Singapore's Institute of High Performance Computing, the National University of Singapore, IBM Singapore, and Dassault Systemes of Paris have formed a joint research initiative focused on the way that engineering, [...]

CAE software manufacturer TekSoft of Scottsdale, Ariz., has released a software program called Cam-Works 2001. It interfaces with the SolidWorks CAD software's assembly module to support numerically controlled programming for [...]

Riegl USA in Orlando, Fla., recently partnered with Phoenix Refractory Technologies, an Arizona company that makes equipment for the iron and steel production industries, in order to improve blast furnace [...]

Since 1982, DRS of Holland, Ohio, has developed products for manufacturers in the automotive, healthcare, and consumer goods sectors. Dean Sparks, company president, recently decided to take advantage of technology [...]

Capability: PWS is a program tailored to those who need to know the properties of a specific water supply. The software is based on the International Association for the Properties [...]

Capability: Release six of LapFEA--a finite element modeling and analysis package--includes the capability to automatically create FEA models of sandwich structures. These structural models include representation of the core via [...]

Capability: Version four of the software called GBW32 is a finite element program that uses standard third-order beam and truss elements to model a range of civil and mechanical structures. [...]

Engineered Software of Lacey, Wash., a maker of fluid-flow analysis software, has formed a strategic partnership with Molecular Knowledge Systems of Bedford, N.H., a maker of physical property estimation and [...]

Computer-aided engineering provider CoCreate of Fort Collins, Cob., has released four engineering software modules that help speed product development when engineers work together across a [...]

Saudi Aramco of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia the state-owned oil company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, uses computer technology to ensure that oil flows safely. Recently, a liquefied petroleum gas [...]