2003 North America VPD Conference

MSC.Marc - Short Course

This short course was included in the conference registration.

Heat Transfer Wednesday, October 15, 10:30 - 12:30

Heat transfer and thermal stress analysis is critical in many applications including automotive, aerospace, electronics and manufacturing. High temperature applications require particular care to satisfy both the thermal and structural design constraints to insure reliability of the components. This short course demonstrated MSC.Marc technology for thermal analysis. It included discussions on:
1. Fundamentals of Heat Transfer
2. Thermal Stress and Temperature Dependent Properties
3. Coupled Thermal-Stress Analysis
4. Coupled Thermal-Joule Heating-Structural Analysis
5. Radiation Analysis
6. Future directions in Heat transfer at MSC.

Dynamics Wednesday, October 15, 1:30 - 4:00 pm

Transient dynamic simulation is an important aspect of product design and safety assessment. This short course was intended for those who are already familiar with classical linear dynamic analysis, and are now facing the challenge of nonlinear dynamics. The role of implicit and explicit dynamic operators will be explored based upon the numerical algorithms in MSC.Marc and MSC.Dytran. Particular emphasis was placed on time step selection, damping, consequences of contact and convergence. This class contained lectures and demonstrations including impact and drop-test analysis.