Latest News in Power Engineering

Bentley acquires SACS, leading software for offshore structure analysis

Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced, during its first Annual Corporate Update conference call, that it has acquired the SACS business from Engineering Dynamics, Inc. SACS is an integrated finite element structural analysis suite of programs that provides for the design, fabrication, installation, operations, and maintenance of offshore structures, including oil platforms and wind farms.

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Leading Engineering Services & Consultancy, Assystem UK, Selects Altair HyperWorks for Gas Turbine Design

Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of technology and services that empowers client innovation and decision-making, announced that the UK Gas Turbine Division of Assystem, a leading engineering services and consultancy provider, has selected Altair HyperWorks to be included in future engineering service projects. Assystem will use HyperWorks and especially HyperMesh, the advanced finite element analysis (FEA) meshing solution of the product suite, to compliment existing analysis software in order to support service and consultancy projects within the gas turbine industry.

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Autodesk to Acquire ALGOR, Inc.

Autodesk, Inc. , a world leader in design innovation technologies, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ALGOR, Inc., a leading provider of analysis and simulation software, for approximately $34 million.
ALGOR's computer aided engineering software is used for product design and development in the automotive, aerospace, medical, consumer products, defense, energy and utilities industries.
"Autodesk strives to offer manufacturers the most comprehensive and easy-to-use Digital Prototyping solution on the market," said Robert "Buzz" Kross, senior vice president of Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions. "The acquisition of ALGOR will add significant new capabilities to virtually test and predict the impact of simultaneous real world conditions like heat and pressure on product designs."

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CompMechLab Research Projects in Power Engineering

	FE 3D Structural Analysis of the W-LBSRP block of JET Tokamak divertor under Electromagnetic Loading
Keywords:	Tokamak, JET (Joint European Torus), ITER, divertor, facing, transient electromagnetic fields, vortical currents, halo-currents, electromagnetic loads, 3D stress state, multiple contact interaction
Software:	CATIA V5, ANSYS/Mechanical, ANSYS/EMAG
Year:	2005
Reads: 3548	Read more...

	Finite element modeling and modal analysis of the gas turbine unit turbocompressor
Keywords:	Turbocompressor, gas turbine unit, eigenfrequencies and mode shapes
Software:	ANSYS
Year:	2004
Reads: 2801	Read more...

CompMechLab AVI-Gallery in Power Engineering

	Free vibration of the plate clutch with parts of drive shafting
Keywords:	Clutch, natural frequencies, vibration mode
Element Type/Problem Type:	Solid element
Rating:	2.43 (Votes: 14)
Software:	ANSYS
Year:	2003
Reads: 2266	Read more...

	Thermal and structural 3D analysis of the gas turbine exhaust diffuser transient heating process and normal conditions with contact intercation taken into consideration Operating regime: start-up, working conditions, shut down. Temperature dependent material properties, cyclically symmetric model, boundary conditions for flowpath zones based on CFD analysis. Choice of diffusor design based on CFD and structural analysis
Keywords:	Thermal transient, thermoelasticity, contact
Element Type/Problem Type:	3D solid, nonlinear
Rating:	3.55 (Votes: 11)
Software:	ANSYS
Year:	2003
Reads: 2127	Read more...

	Natural vibrations of the power turbine Elastic bearings, frequency offset from the critical value. Vibrations with elastic bearings taken into account.
Keywords:	Vibrations, power turbine, modal analysis
Element Type/Problem Type:	3D beam, 3D shell, solid / Modal analysis
Rating:	3.5 (Votes: 2)
Software:	ANSYS
Year:	2002
Reads: 1873	Read more...

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