Company:Lion Corporation Products:scSTREAM Industries: | Effective ventilation for quickly drying wet laundry indoors by hanging clothes in an arch on square hangers (published on Lidea) | ![]() ![]() |
Company:Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. Products:scFLOW Industries: | MSC Cradle CFD helps Yamaha Motor be competitive in MotoGP Design improvements of 0.01 second sought | ![]() ![]() |
Company:Tokai University Products:scFLOW Industries: | Students take the lead in simulating solar car aerodynamics | ![]() ![]() |
Company:NAKASHIMA PROPELLER CO., LTD. Products:scFLOW Industries: | Using fluid analysis capabilities to improve marine propeller efficiency and stay ahead of international competition | ![]() ![]() |
Company:BoostHEAT Products:scFLOW Industries: | Using scFLOW BoostHEAT develops the world’s most efficient boiler | ![]() ![]() |
Company:Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. Products:scFLOW Industries: | CFD application for dairy products:scientific exploration for great tastes | ![]() ![]() |
Company:FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD. Products:scFLOW Industries: | Thermal analysis tool enables low-cost, fast-to-market product development and manufacturing | ![]() ![]() |
Company:Waseda University Products:scFLOW Industries: | Using CFD to predict and evaluate human body thermal comfort | ![]() ![]() |
Company:Opel Products:Adams Industries:Fahrzeugtechnik | Adams Simulation Reduces Full Vehicle Test Time by 30% Challenge: To reduce the vehicle test time for fatigue/durability evaluation Solution: Apply Adams Car with the Virtual Proving Ground for Road Loads Generation | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Company:Vrije Universiteit Brussel Products:Adams Industries:Medizintechnik | Simulation Reality Contest Winner - Vrije Universiteit Brussel Overview: The medical industry is moving in a direction towards robotics to help patients in the rehabilitation process. Gait training (over ground or on a treadmill) has become an essential part of rehabilitation therapy in patients suffering from gait impairment caused by disorders such as stroke, spinal cord injury, and multiple sclerosis. A focus on the human in collaboration with a robot puts emphasis on the adaptability, safety, and task specificity of robotic assistance. Hence, in the development of novel rehabilitation prototypes engineers face the challenge of combining suitable design concepts, high performance actuator technologies, and dedicated control strategies in view of improved physical human-robot interaction (HRI). The improvements should lead to a better insight into effectiveness of robot-assisted rehabilitation and ultimately, lead to therapies that are more effective. One of the approaches to facilitate the design process, in terms of development time, functional and safety evaluation, is using computational multibody simulations. Nowadays, multibody modeling and simulations are recognizable as an efficient and relative inexpensive evaluation approach. Due to the continuously increasing complexity of the wearable robots, almost any study conducted in the field of robotics can profit from a simulation of the system behavior, foregoing experiments on a real platform. Moreover, an advantage of using multibody modeling represented by the possibility to predict various outputs that are difficult, dangerous, or even impossible to reproduce in the real experimental setup. Results Validation: The 3D model of a novel CORBYS
rehabilitation device has been developed
and co-simulated with the human
body using object-oriented multibody
dynamics software, Adams. Benefits:
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Company:Parker Hannifin Products:Marc Industries:Energie | MSC's Marc Helps Ensure Safe Operation of Subsea Oil Drilling Overview: In designing heavy machinery, such as those on cranes or oil rigs, small plastic components or rubber seals can be vital to the integrity of those large structures. Stephen Armstrong an FEA Analyst/New Product Development Engineer and his team at Parker Hannifin Corporation work on designing just these types of parts. Parker Hannifin is a trusted leader in motion and control technologies. Stephen’s team’s main area of focus is on seals that are comprised of hyperelastic materials such as rubber, polyurethane, and other compounds. These seals are used in a variety of applications in heavy machinery, medical devices, military and aerospace industries. Engineers working with these materials focus on nonlinear analysis in most of their projects, because these materials mainly exhibit non-linear behavior. MSC’s Marc was their tool of choice for simulating such behaviors. Benefits: Enhance the seal design and reduced physical testing | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Company:Renault Products:Actran Acoustics Industries:Fahrzeugtechnik | MSC Software Helps Renault Reduce Pass-by Noise Overview: In recent years, there has been a global initiative to reduce traffic noise and improve comfort in automotive vehicles. Engineers have to meet stringent government regulations while still improving the passengers’ experience. One requirement involves a measurement procedure commonly referred to as Pass-by Noise. The maximum allowed sound level for Pass-by Noise has recently been reduced, now representing a new constraint on the design of commercial vehicles. Countermeasures to reduce noise emissions consist in moderating the different acoustic sources by either acting on the noise generating mechanisms or managing the noise propagation. Adding sound absorbing materials or modifying parts of the vehicle geometry are solutions that engineers are investigating to solve this problem. With its wide range of vehicles, the Renault team has to anticipate the evolution of Pass-by noise regulations and design vehicles according to future constraints. Renault decided to extend its acoustic simulation capabilities and model the exterior acoustic propagation using Actran, a product of FFT, an MSC Software Company. With Actran, Renault was able to improve their designs and reduce development costs by considering the vehicle acoustics early in the design phase. Results Validation: When studying Pass-by noise, it is essential to make sure that the numerical simulation is accurate. The absolute sound level recorded during the test determines if the vehicle will pass or if it will be rejected. “We had some measurements from physical testing available when we started the validation,” Philippe explains. “When we started the project we were quite far, we needed to analyze the results and understand the problems in the way we were modelling. Now we are quite happy with the results. We went quite fast in improving the accuracy.” Following this successful validation phase, the methodology is now used daily by Renault engineers to optimize the technical definition of the vehicle to be sure that absorbing materials will be placed exactly where needed. “Compared to the initial target, we achieved much better performances. We started from scratch for this exterior acoustic problem, and what we were able to achieve in just a couple of years in this project is quite impressive to me” concludes Philippe. Benefits: Reducing development costs by integrating acoustic constraints at early stages through simulation. | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Company:Stratasys Products:Digimat Industries:Additive Manufacturing | Stratasys: Simulating effects of warpage in an additively manufactured composite layup tool Overview: For more than 25 years, Stratasys has been a defining force and
dominant player in additive manufacturing – notably inventing the Fused
Deposition Modeling (FDM) Technology. The company’s solutions
provide customers with unmatched design freedom and manufacturing
flexibility – reducing time-to-market and lowering development and
manufacturing costs. Benefits:
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Company:TEN TECH LLC Products:MSC Apex Industries:Luft- & Raumfahrt | MSC One Provides TEN TECH LLC Access to MSC's Complete CAE Platform Overview: MSC Software pioneered many of the technologies that are now relied upon by the Aerospace industry to analyze and predict stress and strain, vibration & dynamics, acoustics, and thermal analysis in their flagship product, MSC Nastran. Similarly, MSC Marc and MSC Adams are highly regarded as industry-leading applications for non-linear simulation and kinematics, respectively. TEN TECH LLC, a Los Angeles based engineering consulting firm, conducts complex engineering Finite Element Analysis. As subject matter experts in shock, vibration and thermal analysis for the Aerospace & Defense Industry, TEN TECH LLC relies heavily on MSC solutions. The types of products and applications TEN TECH is involved with share a common characteristic: field failure is never an option. To validate these designs, complex multi-physics analyses and high-performance solvers that provide great accuracy are required. TEN TECH LLC being a Small Business, high-end CAE software procurement is always a delicate balancing act as high performance and accuracy comes at a hefty premium. At least it did until now: enter MSC One. MSC One is an expanded products token system that allows companies to take advantage of the breadth and depth of MSC Software’s simulation portfolio within a flexible token-based licensing system. Offered on an annual subscription basis, MSC One provides efficient implementation and access to a suite of multidisciplinary engineering software tools. For TEN TECH LLC, the ability to easily access the extensive MSC One product portfolio, including all of MSC’s core products such as MSC Nastran, Adams and Marc, but also Sinda and SC/Tetra for thermal and CFD analysis was an easy choice. Access to such a variety of tools through a “check-in, check-out” token system, allows the team at TEN TECH to solve a multitude of their clients’ vibration, non-linear, thermal and CFD problems for a fraction of the cost typically incurred. Recently, TEN TECH LLC’s Structural Mechanics Group has been actively involved in the development of telescope structures, providing Finite Element Analysis expertise for the design validation of the telescope structure supporting the Polarization of Background Radiation telescope array experiment (POLARBEAR-2). Funded by the Simons Foundation, POLARBEAR-2 is an international collaborative effort including 8 countries, and 20 institutions. Based in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Simons Array, comprised of three polarization of background radiation telescopes, will probe the skies in search of proof of inflation, the hypothetical moment following the Big Bang. “We heavily relied on MSC Apex and MSC Nastran to perform these complex structural analysis tasks. MSC One made our life much easier than with our traditional workflow” - William Villers, CTO & Director of Engineering at TEN TECH LLC. Results Validation: The TEN TECH team was able to quickly mesh and run FEA on a very large and detailed model of a complex assembly, starting from native CAD files. Apex allowed the team to proceed with incremental analyses of subassemblies and build a very large and complex model “right the first time”. With Apex, the engineers shortened their “CAD to FEM to Analysis” time by 25%-30% compared to their traditional workflow process. At the same time, they delivered a high fidelity, reliable model to their client. MSC Nastran’s high performance was highlighted throughout the entire project: through its ultra-fast iterative solver and GPU-accelerated processing for linear statics, to Automated Component Modal Synthesis (ACMS) and Distributed Memory Parallel (DMP) solver for large dynamics problems, MSC Nastran performed flawlessly and delivered the highly accurate results required to achieve the proper confidence level in the design. TEN TECH plans to further utilize MSC’s products through MSC One, including Sinda, Adams, and MSC Nastran. The price of MSC One gives the TEN TECH team the financial freedom they need to use MSC Nastran and other products. Benefits: Increased productivity by utilizing MSC Apex Fossa to save time during the design process | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Company:Giant Magellan Telescope Products:MSC Apex Industries:Luft- & Raumfahrt | MSC Software Helps Giant Magellan Telescope Discover the Universe Overview: Where did our universe come from? Since the beginning of time, astronomers and physicists such as Galileo, Copernicus, and Einstein have dedicated their life’s work to this timeless question. Even today, investigating the universe’s origins remains hotly debated. To help answer this, the team at the Giant Magellan Telescope is building a 200 foot-high telescope that will help scientists uncover what has plagued scientists and science fiction enthusiasts alike: Are we alone? How did the first galaxies form? What is the fate of the universe? The GMT is uniquely poised to answer these questions due to its ability to collect more light than other telescopes and to its’ uniquely high resolution (which will be the highest ever achieved in a telescope). The project is sponsored by Astronomy Australia Limited, Carnegie Observatories, Harvard University, and other leading universities and research institutions from around the globe. Due to the complexity of the structure, placement of mirrors, and movements that will occur during operation of the telescope, the engineering team at GMTO used MSC Software’s simulation tool, MSC Apex, to simplify and shorten their design and simulation workflow. Results Validation: MSC Apex’s dynamic components for design, specifically its importing utility and meshing features, were instrumental in the design and analysis of the GMT. The software was essential in helping to identify particular wind dynamics issues during the design process, which allowed developers to save time and increase productivity. MSC Apex became a critical tool in the GMT’s design process due to its easy user interface and customized meshing and simulation features. With the aid of MSC Apex, engineers at GMTO will be able to answer some of the toughest questions faced by mankind in a more streamlined, efficient way than ever before. Benefits: Increased productivity by utilizing MSC Apex Fossa to save time during the design process | ![]() ![]() ![]() |