Spring is approaching and if your neighborhood is like mine, it seems like every other house has a portable basketball hoop ready for players to heave up three-pointers from all directions. As I was slowly driving down my street, keeping … Read More
As product development times are shrinking and time to market demands are accelerating, design and engineering teams are struggling to keep up. These teams are forced to make significant compromises in their products in order to meet internal and external … Read More
As a proud Altairian for more than 30 years, I’ve seen a lot of transformations in product development: The growth of high-fidelity system-level simulation to drive design, reduce test and improve product performance. Topology optimization to generate and refine structures beyond the … Read More
When I began my automotive engineering career, simulation technologies were primarily thought of as validation tools, used to verify the performance of components and system against crash, NVH, durability targets etc. Simulation rarely influenced the design early on. Instead, it … Read More
The annual JEC World expo in Paris has become a truly massive event. For three days every March, over 43,000 visitors from 123 countries converge to learn about the latest advancements in the composite materials industry. All aspects of the … Read More
Additive manufacturing has given designers a new level of creative freedom in developing new products to exacting specifications without limitations of traditional manufacturing processes. Following a patch-based laminate manufacturing approach, using defined fiber pieces instead of endless fibers, not only … Read More
“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.” – Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) Today, when I see a white car on the road, I can hardly tell what the exact color … Read More
A variety of critical performance metrics can be predicted via simulation, including boresight error, transmission loss, bird-strike damage, and deflection under aerodynamic load. When it comes to aircraft design, engineers must meet standard requirements and consider every scenario. Would the … Read More
An essential task in the design of any wireless system is to ensure proper impedance matching between the different components in the RF chain. Impedance mismatch will degrade the transfer of energy between the amplifier and the antenna and thus … Read More
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