Energy
The past decade has seen increasing explorations for fossil fuels, while research into the alternative energy sources, like wind, solar, and biofuels is taking center stage as governments and companies look to meet the ever-increasing global energy demands. Nuclear power is also getting a second look, both in terms of its potential and challenges.
MSC Software provides modeling and analysis solutions for the energy industry that accurately simulate complex mechanical systems in rugged service environments. MSC’s tools are proven within the oil & gas, wind, solar and nuclear power segments to help design products that perform optimally and avoid costly field failure.
Adams Software helped us to understand the motion and forces involved by capturing the full gamut of real world complexities including rigid bodies, flexible bodies, springs, dampers, joints and all others mechanical components. The software never placed any limits on what I wanted simulated, yet it made it possible to assemble the complex model very quickly."
-Mirco Zoia, Navel Architect
Knud E Hansen
MSC Software is used for many types of simulations:
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Engineers use MSC Software to analyze:
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Nuclear Energy
Trunnion stress analysis
Thermal analysis of a cask
Piping systems – Burst analysis |
Safety is the topmost concern in design of a nuclear plant and this is the basis of several guidelines formulated by various regulatory agencies around the world. While following strict performance criteria demanded by the regulatory agencies, designers strive to enhance their designs without incurring prohibitive development costs. MSC Software’s tools and products offer an ideal solution for designers and manufacturers by providing the dual advantages of meeting nuclear meeting regulatory guidelines and innovation, achieved at a lower cost. With capabilities to model accurately highly nonlinear materials that exhibit time and temperature dependent behavior and complex loading conditions, designers can simulate complex testing scenarios in the safety of their offices. Use of accurate, high performance simulations solutions from MSC also help reduce physical tests, while at the same time enabling you to run a more comprehensive regimen of virtual tests. MSC solutions for the nuclear energy industry include:
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Oil & Gas Industry
Pipe collapse
Well perforation
Centralizers |
Drilling and production equipment and transportation infrastructure is continuously subjected to severe loading conditions and any disruption to operations can lead to expensive shutdowns. Hence extensive testing early in the design cycle is critical. However, it is not only expensive for exhaustive physical testing, but could also be hazardous to test engineers because of the need to recreate the harsh field conditions. MSC Software provides simulation solutions that can provide the benefits of accuracy, completeness and safety. With capabilities to simulate control systems, multi-body mechanical systems, and structural assemblies, MSC’s solutions not only provide a comprehensive set of tools, but also an integrated multidisciplinary solution for improved accuracy. MSC solutions for the oil and gas industry include:
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Wind Energy
System loads calculation
Hub fatigue modeling
Aero-dynamic simulation |
For over 30 years, manufacturers in the wind energy industry have relied on MSC Software’s solutions to overcome the numerous challenges related to the creation of ever more powerful systems. MSC’s products are employed to help design more reliable and better performing systems and they generate instrumental engineering data for the type certification process. Through extensive virtual testing of new designs, wind turbine, blade, and gearbox manufacturers are saving time and money, and designing more reliable systems by working with MSC Software. MSC solutions for the Wind Energy industry include:
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