Last week, ESRD wrote a guest contribution for Altair’s Innovation Intelligence blog titled “Hyper-Fidelity Structural Analysis for S.A.F.E.R. Numerical Simulation in the Aerospace Industry“.  Thanks to Altair for their collaboration and support of S.A.F.E.R. Simulation.

This guest contribution was intended to compliment and preview Altair’s October 17th ESRD use case webinar (don’t worry if you missed this webinar, the recording is already available).

Here’s an excerpt from the Innovation Intelligence blog article:

Across the engineering community there is much discussion about the democratization of simulation; meaning the reliable use of numerical simulation by non-simulation experts who may be design engineers, new analysts, or occasional users. The hope is that much of the complexity, time, and risk of performing FEA can be wrung out of simulation in a way that finally allows simulation-driven design to be led by design engineers. Indeed democratization has great potential in the A&D industry to compress the product development lifecycle, but is it realistic? The answer few may want to hear is that this will not be easy to accomplish using legacy FEA technologies, methodologies, and software tools.

The key takeaways are as follows:

• The pressure on engineering organizations to support the increasing complexity, higher performance, shorter design cycles, and longer life expectancy of products they produce and maintain is relentless.
• Legacy computational methodologies, software tools, and simulation processes that have been used for years to perform FEA are slow to master, precarious to use, and unreliable in the hands of the non-expert or infrequent user. Sources of errors are numerous and results are often dependent on the user, model, mesh, and software.
• There is unfortunately a reluctance by some managers and team leaders to support the performance of more computationally-based 3D detail stress analysis due to the perceived time and complexity involved, especially when compared to relying on handbook solutions, design curves, closed form approximations, homegrown spreadsheets, higher margins of safety, or ultimately more time for physical prototyping and testing.
• A different approach to numerical simulation has been developed and commercialized by APA partner ESRD which takes much of the art and craft out of finite element modelling.
• The result is that the performance of structural analysis is more simple, accurate, fast, efficient, and reliable for both the frequent expert and only occasional user (S.A.F.E.R.).

Thoughts? Feedback? Leave us a comment!

ESRD and Altair will be presenting a novel Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry webinar, “Hyper-Fidelity Stress Analysis for S.A.F.E.R. Structural Simulation in the Aviation, Aerospace, and Defense Industries“, on October 17th at 10:00 am EDT.  Simulation Analysts, Design Engineers, Aerospace & Defense Professionals, Product Innovators and Engineering Group Managers who are responsible for the performance and quality of structural strength, stress, fatigue, and damage tolerant analysis should attend.

Here is a brief synopsis of the co-hosted webinar:

Creating and verifying finite element models which consistently deliver high-fidelity results though out a design space of varying geometric scales is challenging. This is especially true when the final design is not yet set and even small changes to the design, materials, loads, or general behavior can render a model (and corresponding mesh) that took days to create and debug obsolete.

In this webinar we will share advancements in numerical simulation that make the performance of finite element analysis S.A.F.E.R. – Simple, Accurate, Fast, Efficient, and Reliable. An example engineering design problem from the aviation industry, requiring accurate results around stress concentrations to meet durability requirements for a long crack initiation life, will be presented.

If you would like to attend, please sign up for the webinar here.

We look forward to discussing how we can help improve your detailed stress analysis numerical simulations, and how you can incorporate S.A.F.E.R. Simulation in your projects.

On April 10th, ESRD and Altair co-presented a novel Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry webinar, “Global-Local Workflows and High-Fidelity Stress Analysis for a Wing Flap Hinge Fitting“. If you were not able to attend, don’t worry; the on-demand webinar is now available!

Here is a brief synopsis of the co-hosted Altair webinar:

StressCheck by APA partner ESRD is the preferred tool within the A&D industry for high-fidelity stress analysis in support of global-local analysis workflows associated with aerostructure design. StressCheck is unique in that it provides live dynamic extraction of computed results at any location in the model, regardless of the mesh, and of a known accuracy.

In this webinar, we will analyze a part from Altair’s Aero Wing concept, the flap hinge fitting, and perform a global-local case study to provide confidence in its optimized design. This global-local workflow process may then be repeated for any other component of interest within the Aero Wing structural assembly.

To view the on-demand webinar, click the button below and then click “View on-demand webinar” in the top right:

Thanks to Altair for hosting this webinar, and for helping us deliver S.A.F.E.R. Simulation in the A&D industry.

ESRD and Altair will be presenting a novel Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry webinar, “Global-Local Workflows and High-Fidelity Stress Analysis for a Wing Flap Hinge Fitting“, on April 10th at 10:00 am EDT.  Strength Engineers, Simulation Analysts, Aerospace & Defense Professionals, Optimization Specialists and Engineering Group Managers who are responsible for the performance and quality of structural strength, stress, fatigue, and design certification should attend.

Here is a brief synopsis of the co-hosted Altair webinar:

StressCheck by APA partner ESRD is the preferred tool within the A&D industry for high-fidelity stress analysis in support of global-local analysis workflows associated with aerostructure design. StressCheck is unique in that it provides live dynamic extraction of computed results at any location in the model, regardless of the mesh, and of a known accuracy.

In this webinar, we will analyze a part from Altair’s Aero Wing concept, the flap hinge fitting, and perform a global-local case study to provide confidence in its optimized design. This global-local workflow process may then be repeated for any other component of interest within the Aero Wing structural assembly.

If you would like to attend, please sign up for the webinar here.

We look forward to discussing how we can help improve your global-local workflows and detailed stress analysis numerical simulations, and how you can incorporate S.A.F.E.R. Simulation in your projects.