Femap Symposium 2014 gets underway

Karsten Newbury got the FS14 proceedings underway this morning at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, GA. Mark Sherman then talked about some recent Femap success stories within the theme of “disc…

Virtual Simulation At The Heart of Competitive Racing

 Williams F1 Conference Centre, Grove, Oxfordshire, UK
 
On May 21 st 2014, please join the Siemens PLM UK team at the first ever Siemens UK CAE Symposium (registration link) at t…

JAXA uses Femap to reduce training costs and increase R&D efficiency

The Chofu Aerospace Center (CAC) Aerodrome Branch of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) develops advanced engineering technologies for future applications. The scale of research ranges acr…

Simulation-Driven Design – Carmakers Rely On CFD To Drive Aerodynamic & Engine Design

Automotive manufacturers are increasingly looking to simulation-driven design using computational fluid dynamics to solve external aerodynamic and internal engine design problems. An article in …

How to Minimize Noise and Optimize Sound Quality

 
 
The ability to minimize noise and optimize sound quality using acoustic analysis tools early on in the design phase is a critical design requirement that has been traditionally h…

10 Hidden Femap Features

 
10 Hidden FEMAP Features
FEMAP has a rich set of hidden features for finite element modeling, but not all of them are easy to find.  I’ve created a list of some of my favorite feature…

Improving NX Nastran Performance

Improving NX Nastran Performance
 
NX Nastran actually comes with two different 64 Bit executables, the standard LP-64, and the optional ILP-64 executable.  The LP-64 executable still u…

SDC Verifier presenting at the 2014 Femap Symposium

Mentioned in a previous blog, SDC Verifier continues to develop the program to help you check your design according to many different design code rules. In his presentation, Wouter will be highlighti…

Femap Tips and Tricks: Automatic Global Ply Creation

In the analysis of composite structures, global plies are very useful in helping to postprocess as they present the results data by continuous ply rather than the whole laminate element by element, w…