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ALGOR V19.1 SUPPORTS 64-BIT HP-UX FOR ALL ANALYSIS TYPES
10 January 2007 - NAFEMS
| ALGOR announced that its latest finite element analysis software release, ALGOR V19.1, features all-new support for the 64-bit HP-UX operating system for all analysis types. Now, UNIX workstation users can simulate engineering analyses of their product designs with ALGOR's wide range of simulation capabilities including static stress and Mechanical Event Simulation with linear and nonlinear material models, linear dynamics, steady-state and transient heat transfer, steady and unsteady fluid flow, electrostatics and full multiphysics. |
V19.1 also features a new gasket material model and element for accurately simulating mechanical seals; improved automatic report generation including the ability to publish to the PDF file format; the capability to calculate equilibrium temperature from heat transfer analysis results; and the ability to display fluid flow results as streaklines for improved visualization of flow throughout a fluid domain. These and many more new V19.1 features provide ALGOR users with increased power, flexibility and ease-of-use for simulating engineering analyses of their product designs. "Previous releases have supported 32- and 64-bit Windows and 32- and 64-bit Linux operating systems," said ALGOR Product Manager, Bob Williams. "Now, V19.1 expands our multi-platform support, allowing users to apply the power and speed of the 64-bit HP-UX operating system to all ALGOR analysis types. Future releases will provide even faster solvers and support distributed processing on all platforms." "For a recent project, I used ALGOR software on a 64-bit Windows computer to perform linear static stress analysis of a shell-and-tube-style heat exchanger with more than 2.5-million degrees of freedom," said Scott Bennett of Alaskan Copper Works in Seattle, Washington. "ALGOR's multi-platform support was beneficial because I initially tried to run the analysis on a 32-bit system, but found it wasn't powerful enough. With the 64-bit computer, the analysis ran in under an hour, which allowed time for design iterations and helped me meet my customer's deadline." ALGOR V19.1 also includes:
CAD Support (Direct)
Full associativity with each design change for Rhinoceros
FEMPRO
Ability to run a NASTRAN analysis on a remote computer
Improved selection tools, dynamic viewing options and ease of use
Improved sketching and meshing tools
Fluid Flow Analysis
Automatic adaptive parameter control for segregate scheme used in steady, unsteady and coupled fluid/thermal analyses
Superview Results Environment
Capability to display:
Stresses calculated from average stress tensors
Heat transfer results during an analysis
Electrostatic reaction forces
and much more.
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About: NAFEMS
NAFEMS is a not for profit organisation aimed at promoting best practices and also fostering education and awareness in the engineering analysis community. In line with its objectives to promote the effective use of simulation technologies, NAFEMS is continually seeking to create awareness of new analysis methodologies, deliver education & training, and stimulate the adoption of best practices and standards by offering a platform for continuous professional development.By the late 1970s and early 1980s, as computing power became more widely available, increasingly industry was starting to solve practical engineering problems using finite element analysis techniques. There was however considerable concern that the accuracy of the methods, and software implementations, required to be verified in order to allow the results to be effectively used. Following extensive lobbying, by industry and academia, the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) set up, and funded, a project within the National Engineering Laboratory (NEL), based in East Kilbride, Scotland, to investigate the issues. As a result the National Agency for Finite Element Methods and Standards, quickly shortened to the acronym NAFEMS, was founded as a special interest group in 1983 with a specific objective namely: "To promote the safe and reliable use of finite element and related technology" In order to keep engineers abreast of the latest developments in the Analysis World the quarterly magazine BENCHmark was launched by NAFEMS in July 1987. After seven years of seed funding by the UK government, and with the support of its industrial members, the decision was taken to launch NAFEMS Ltd as an independent not-for-profit company, owned by its member's in 1990. The company celebrated its 10th Anniversary in 2000, and has developed both the scope of its technology focus and its membership well beyond the original vision. Today NAFEMS and its members are involved in many different types of engineering simulation covering both products and processes. Membership continues to grow, now exceeding 700 corporate members in over 30 different countries. Steering groups have been set up in the UK, France, Germany, and the USA to co-ordinate local activities and interaction with members. |
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