Femap at the 2017 Siemens PLM Connection Americas, Indianapolis

Last week saw the staging of the 2017 Siemens PLM Connection Americas event in Indianapolis. In the Simcenter User Connection track, there was good representation for simulation and the who…

Femap Tips & Tricks: Creating Plate Element Properties from Geometry

In creating a simulation model quite often the finite elements are generated from a CAD geometry representation of the design. This serves to transfer the three dimensional topology from the CAD&nbsp…

LOC optimizes global collaboration for business growth

LOC (London Offshore Consultants) Group is a recognized leader in the area of risk reduction in the shipping and offshore energy industry. LOC focuses on transportation and construction in the marine…

Femap Tips & Tricks: Apply Regional Loading

In Femap there are many ways of defining and setting up loads on geometry entities. In this video you’ll see how you can create temporary geometry entities and use them to apply regional loads to a p…

Femap Tips & Tricks: Elements Sweeping

See how to create a solid helical mesh in Femap by sweeping elements.
Femap has many different methods of creating elements and meshes, and in this tip and trick you can see how to sweep elements…

Femap Symposia Series goes to Florida

On January 17th Piper Aircraft and SDA hosted a Femap Symposium event at Vero Beach, FL – the home of Piper. The event was well attended and presentations ranged from advanced analyses performed on a…

Customize the FEMAP API

The FEMAP API is a robust tool that allows customers to access almost all of FEMAP’s capabilities through a programming interface. The easiest way to access the API is through FEMAP’s built in progra…

Final Event of the Femap Symposium Series 2016

The final event of the Femap Symposium Series 2016 will take place on Tuesday October 11th at Vero Beach, FL, courtesy of SDA and Piper Aircraft.
Register now to guarantee your place, and see pre…

Post-Buckling in FEMAP using Advanced Nonlinear

This is the second installment of a two-part series covering Advanced Nonlinear, looking specifically at Post-Buckling Behavior
 
We previously covered buckling behavior of a …