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ALGOR LAUNCHES FEMPRO PRE-PROCESSING SOFTWARE
12 January 2006 - NAFEMS
| ALGOR, Inc., a leading provider of design, analysis and simulation software, announced the immediate availability of FEMPRO, which has been designed to compete with Femap in the arena of pre- and post-processing for NASTRAN-compatible and other finite element analysis software. |
"FEMPRO is a modern, easy-to-use and complete system with full finite element modeling, results evaluation and presentation capabilities. Using FEMPRO, users build FEA models which can be processed by a variety of solvers for the purpose of performing mechanical simulation, which is often called virtual prototyping," said Bob Williams, ALGOR Product Manager. Some important advantages of FEMPRO over competing software include:
Complete support for leading CAD solid modeling systems such as NX and Solid Edge from UGS Corp., CATIA and SolidWorks from Dassault Systemes, Pro/ENGINEER from Parametric Technology Corporation, and Autodesk Inventor and Mechanical Desktop from Autodesk, Inc. Additional CAD systems supported include Alibre Design, IronCAD, KeyCreator, Rhinoceros and others. For most systems, FEMPRO provides direct CAD/CAE data exchange and full associativity with each design change. Hex-dominant hybrid meshing provides automatic mesh generation from CAD, resulting in finite element models that are populated primarily of hexahedral or "brick" elements on the surface. This method places the most accurate elements on the surface of the model where results are the highest and utilizes tetrahedral elements for the interior of the model, thereby providing the maximum combination of accuracy and solving speed. A robust and extensive array of user interfacing for analyses including static stress and Mechanical Event Simulation with linear and nonlinear material models, linear dynamics, fatigue, steady-state and transient heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, electrostatics and full multiphysics. Over the past 20 years, FEMPRO was developed as a primary component of ALGOR's complete finite element modeling and analysis software system. Beginning in 2002, ALGOR began adding full NASTRAN compatibility to its software line. This includes the ability for FEMPRO, its finite element modeling and post-processing tool, to create models for NASTRAN processors and to read in the results from NASTRAN analyses to graphically display result contours including displacements, stresses, mode shapes resulting from vibration, temperature profiles and other engineering parameters. Now, for the first time, ALGOR is making FEMPRO widely available for users of other finite element systems including NASTRAN solvers, which are offered by a number of companies such as MSC.Software and UGS Corp.
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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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