Setting the Stage An opera singer hits a high note, rattling the audience’s ear drums and exploding a wine glass in the drawing room. You may have seen this in the movies, but is this really possible with sound alone? … Read More
Over the years, computer-aided design (CAD) system geometry has evolved…from wireframes to surfaces to solids, and parametric to direct. Simulation, however, remains stuck using the same old beam, shell or simplified-solids paradigm invented more than 50 years ago. As CAD … Read More
This guest contribution on the Altair blog is written by the ESRD team, a member of the Altair Partner Alliance With the increased usage of finite element analysis (FEA) software tools for virtual prototyping of new and/or modified engineering designs, and the … Read More
This guest contribution on the Altair Blog is written by the Additive Works Team. Additive Works is a member of the Altair Partner Alliance. More lasers. More power. Higher build rates and lower costs per part. This is the main expectation … Read More
Before the holidays, I shared the process of analyzing my family’s Christmas Tree stand as an example of using Inspire as a FEA tool. The loads and supports that I found to be the most realistic can be seen in … Read More
Every year on the Friday following Thanksgiving, The Brennan family ventures out to a tree farm and gets the biggest pine tree we can find to fill our family living room. Our trees usually range from 14-17 feet tall and … Read More
Admitting that the headline is somewhat provocative, this is the exact situation in strength assessment of components made of metals. One might think that the task of evaluating the mechanical strength of a component should be a mundane thing since … Read More
Understanding behind-armor blunt trauma is important for developing effective personal ballistic protection solutions. Even if a bullet is stopped by the armor, some damage can still be transmitted to the body. By today’s standards, the protections are assessed on plastilina blocks … Read More
Subsurface mooring deployment, recovery, and performance in current and waves For many years moorings have been designed using basic mass-drag-buoyancy calculations, spreadsheets, rules-of-thumb, black magic scripts, and a dose of ‘salty-sea-dog’ experience. With these methods, we can frequently estimate a … Read More
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