Altair Releases HyperWorks 11.0, Creating the Most Comprehensive Open-Architecture CAE Solution in Engineering

Altair Engineering, Inc. announced the release of HyperWorks 11.0. Highlights of HyperWorks 11.0 include the addition of two new software products to the HyperWorks suite; AcuSolve and solidThinking. It also offers a greatly extended breadth of solver solutions in RADIOSS, allowing engineers to efficiently address today’s complex design challenges.

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MSC Marc Optimizes Composite Materials at CETENA

MSC Software Corporation announced that CETENA, a research and development subsidiary of the FINCANTIERI Group, the leading manufacturer in the shipbuilding industry, relies on MSC Marc to investigate and optimize the curing process of composite materials with epoxy resin.

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VISTAGY FiberSIM gets top marks in DLR Composites Study

VISTAGY, Inc., a leading provider of industry-specific engineering software and services, today announced that DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt), the German Aerospace Center, conducted a study that deemed its FiberSIM composites engineering software superior to all other tested draping simulation software when fiber simulation, design functionality, and interfaces are collectively considered. DLR performed the evaluation by designing and manufacturing four composite parts, including a double curved aircraft stringer, a complex automotive B pillar, and two generic chicanery parts.

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Nordex Selects VISTAGY’s FiberSIM® Software to Develop Composite Wind Turbine Blades

VISTAGY, Inc. announced that Nordex, one of the world’s premier manufacturers of high-efficiency wind turbines for onshore use, has purchased FiberSIM® software to streamline its entire design-to-manufacturing process for composite wind turbine blades. Nordex is using FiberSIM to develop detailed ply designs, accurate flat patterns and manufacturing output, and complete documentation for the engineering release.

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Altair Engineering receives Boeing Performance Excellence Award

Altair Engineering, Inc. announced that it has received a 2010 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing Company issues the award annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance.

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Strategic partnership between LMS International & e-Xstream engineering

LMS International and e-Xstream engineering have started a strategic partnership to develop fatigue tools for random fiber-reinforced composites.

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Now available: COMSOL Multiphysics Simulation Booklet

A new guide to multiphysics simulation tools the COMSOL Product Booklet 2011 is now available free of charge at COMSOL web-site.

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BAE Systems Composite Structures selects VISTAGY's FiberSIM to design and manufacture aircraft parts

VISTAGY, Inc. announced that BAE Systems Composite Structures Inc. has purchased FiberSIM  software to design and manufacture parts for commercial aircraft programs, including an auxiliary power unit plenum. BAE Systems Composite Structures has worked with VISTAGY for over a decade and has used FiberSIM on programs for Rolls Royce, Bell Helicopter, and Raytheon.

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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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Swedish technical consulting company Solvina chooses Dassault Systemes solution

Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, announced today that the Swedish technical consulting company Solvina has chosen its Dymola modeling and simulation solution to optimize the development of effective control strategies for plant productivity and energy consumption.

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