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Vendors Reference Guide

October 2005 Our 2005 Analysis Reference Guide features data from 25 companies active in this burgeoning segment of the industry. Studying this Reference Guide will equip you to make better informed buying decisions. Not to mention all details are readily available since the contact information and names you need are included right with the product and/or service descriptions. In addition, our Analysis Options Roundup covers indepth exploration of issues and techniques in the following features written by industry leaders:

Analysis Options Roundup: An Overview Here's brief Overview with links to all segments of our 2005 Analysis Options Roundup, including our Vendor Reference Guide and two feature stories by industry experts.

Analyzing Fluid-Structure Interaction with ABAQUS and FLUENT In a joint initiative, ABAQUS and Fluent launched sophisticated co-simulation software tools that account for coupling effects. Includes animations!

How to Manage FEA in the Design Process Many companies have realized several or all of these benefits. Some, however, are getting more benefit than others. Learn how to get your fair share.

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ABAQUS, Inc. ALGOR, Inc. ANSYS, Inc. Products or Services? Both Both Both Market(s)? All All Automotive, Aerospace,

Biomedical, Power, Generation, Machinery, Electronics, Defense, Petrochemical

Main Type(s) of Analysis

Static, Dynamic, Thermal, Non-Linear, Fluid structure, Interaction

Mechanical Structural Thermal Electrostatics Multiphysics Fatigue, Fluid flow, Piping design & analysis

Structural Thermal Fluid Electromagnetics Dynamics Multiphysics Coupling

Product(s) ABAQUS/Standard ABAQUS/Explicit ABAQUS/CAE ABAQUS for CATIA V5

FEA Mechanical Event Simulation PipePak Piping Design InCAD Data Exchange

ANSYS CFX Autodyn ICEM CFD

Type of Product Complete solution Complete solution Complete solution How many solvers? 2 fundamental (integrated

implicit and explicit); several solution techniques for each.

11 (including parallel processing for multiple processors)

Direct and iterative solvers that enable parallel computing

How Many Different Element Types?

Well over 100 370 175 total Contact, Field, Fluid, Shells, Solids

Integrated With Any CAD?

Full integration with CATIA; Direct geometry transfer with other major MCAD systems

Autodesk Inventor Pro/E SolidWorks Solid Edge ACIS, IGES, STEP, STL

Autodesk Inventor CATIA Pro/E SolidWorks Solid Edge NX One Space Designer Parasolid, SAT, IGES, STEP

Own Scripting Language?

Yes, both scripting and GUI customization

Yes Yes

Own Parametric Design Language?

Yes (its scripting language); ABAQUS/CAE is a parametric geometry modeler.

Yes Yes

File Size Limit? None Limited only by operating system.

None

Material Properties? All popular metals, plastics; many composites. Material customization allowed.

Any engineering material, including composites. Built-in library, 50,000 types.

Composites Gases Liquids Metal Plastic Rubber

Price? Contact company $6,000--$30,000, call for lease pricing

Full solution: $50,000 Basic: $4,500

Web Address www.abaqus.com www.algor.com www.ansys.com Contact Sales Sales Sales Email [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Phone 401.727.4200 412.967.2700 866.267.9724


Blue Ridge

Numerics, Inc. CD-adapco

Dimensional Control Systems

Products or Services? Both Both Both

Market(s)? Mechanical Thermal

Acoustics Chemistry Flow Thermal Stress Multiphysics

Engineering Manufacturing Quality


Fluid Flow Heat Transfer

CAD add-ins CFD FEA

Dimensional Variation

Product(s) CFdesign CAD: STAR-CAD series CFD: STAR-CD, STAR-CCM+ CFD Expert System Tools

1DCS Linear Tolerance Analysis 3DCS Variation Analysis DCS-DFC Datum Flow Chain GDM-3D Graphical Data Reporting

Type of Product Complete solution Complete solution Complete solution

How many solvers? 1 (2 optional add-on modules) 3 Not supplied


Multiple Not supplied Not supplied


Autodesk Inventor CATIA Pro/E SolidWorks Solid Edge UGS NX

CATIA V5 Pro/E SolidWorks UGS NX UGS 18

CATIA V5 UGS


Yes Yes Yes


No (uses integrated MCAD language)

Yes No

File Size Limit? None None No

Material Properties? Any fluid or solid. Extensive materials database.

Any Any

Price? $19,900 - $28,900 per perpetual license; includes 12-month support software updates

N/A As low as $1,000

Web Address www.cfdesign.com www.cd-adapco.com www.3dcs.com

Contact Jim Spann Sales Richard M. Rots

Email [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Phone 434.977.2764, x120 631.549.2300 No. America 44 (0)207.471.6200 (Europe)

248.269.9777


Dynamic Design

Solutions ESI Group

IMPACT Engineering Solutions, Inc.

Products or Services? Both Both Mechanical engineering, high end simulation services & training

Market(s)? Mechanical Structural NVH Dynamics

Acoustics Mechanical Metallurgical Structural Thermal

Mechanical


Analytical Modal Analysis Model Updating Probabilistic Analysis Sensitivity Analysis Linear

CFD Crashworthiness FEA NVH Stamping Stress

Nonlinear Plastic, Transient Dynamic, Fatigue, Large Assemblies

Product(s) FEMtools Correlation FEMtools Framework FEMtools Pretest FEMtools Updating FEMTools Optimization

AutoSEA2 PAM-CRASH PAM-SAFE PAM-STAMP

Use: ANSYS, Nastran, Pro/MECHANICA, LS-Dyna Nonlinear Plastic, Transient Dynamic, Fatigue, Large Assemblies

Type of Product Complete solution Complete solution Complete solution

How many solvers? 4 30 6


All for structural analysis 10 All common element types


No Autodesk Inventor CATIA V5 SolidWorks

Inventor Pro/E SolidWorks


Yes Yes Yes


No No Yes

File Size Limit? None None No practical limit

Material Properties? All linear material models Any (provided material data available)

No practical limitations

Price? US$10,000 - $25,000 Starts around $10,000 NA

Web Address www.femtools.com www.esi-group.com www.impactengsol.com

Contact Eddy Dascotte Olivier Morisot Vince Adams


Phone 32 16.40.23.00 Not supplied 847.499.5635


Integrated Engineering Software, Inc. (IES)

LUSAS

MSC.Software

Products or Services?

Products Both Both

Market(s)? Structural Mechanical Civil / Structural Thermal Composites Materials

CAD-embedded Analysis Controls/Hydraulics Data, process mgmt. Explicit nonlinear (crash) Fatigue, FE Modeling, Mechanical, Motion, NVH, Nonlinear, Stress, hermal


Static Linear Analysis, 2nd Order P-Delta, Dynamic Response (Modal Superposition), Nonlinear Time-History

Static Dynamic Nonlinear Thermal

Motion NVH Nonlinear Stress

Product(s) VisualAnalysis Package, ShapeBuilder, AnalysisGroup, QuickRWall

LUSAS Analyst LUSAS Composite LUSAS Civil & Structural LUSAS Bridge

SimOffice (MSC.Nastran, MSC.ADAMS, MSC.Patran, MSC.EASY5, more), MSC SimManager SimDesigner

Type of Product complete solutions, or modeling & analysis only.

Complete solution Complete solution

How many solvers? One, with many variations and options

5: Frontal Direct Solver, Fast Multi-frontal Direct Solver, PCCG Solver, Multifrontal Block Lanczos Eigensolver, Complex Eigensolver.

8


Beam/Truss, 3 or 4 node thin or thick Plate/Shell, elastic Spring Supports (translation or rotation), Catenary Cables. Trusses/ springs may be tension-only or compression-only

100 All currently available


No direct CAD integration, some products support DXF data exchange.

No. IGES and DXF import facility provided.

CATIA, Pro/E, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, UGS NX


No automation support, some products sup-port text-based scripting languages for file I/O.

Yes. Yes


No. Yes, via scripting language Yes

File Size Limit? Size is limited by Windows virtual memory system.

Limited by op system & hardware

None

Material Properties? Linear, isotropic materials of any type.

All commonly-used eng. materials incl composites.

All

Price? $395 - $2500 Contact company Starts at $10,000 Web Address www.iesweb.com www.lusas.com www.mscsoftware.com Contact Terry Kubat Terry Cakebread Catherine Meek Email [email protected] sales

[email protected] tech [email protected] catherine.meek@mscsoftware.

com Phone 800.707.0816, or

406.586.8988 800.97.LUSAS 714.445.3066


Nika Fluid Solutions Noran Engineering NUMECA Internatl Products or Services? Both Both Both Market(s)? Fluid dynamics, thermal

analysis, CAD embedded analysis

Auto, aero, marine, petro chem, turbomachinery, consumer, medical, power generation, industrial processes, electronics, and military products.

Fluid Flow Analysis & Optim, Multiphysics for auto, aero, rotating machinery, environ-mnt, HVAC, indus process, marine, power gen, propulsn


CFD (liquids, gases), Thermal (conduction, convection, radiation)

Structural , Dynamic, Modal, Shock, Vibration, Crash, Drop, Thermal, Motion Fluid Dynamics – CFD Non linear, Contact- 3D Composites, Fatigue Aeroelasti- city, Multiphysics Optimization, Event Simulation & Animation

CFD Turbomachinery Design and Optimization

Product(s) EFD.Lab, EFD.Pro, EFD.V5 NEiNastran for all major CAD systems, NEiWorks embedded in SolidWorks; Complementary Modules: NEiMotion, NEiFatigue NEiFluid Dynamics, NEiAdvanced Composites NEiAeroelasticity NEiAdvanced Thermal

FINE/Design3D FINE/Hexa FINE/Turbo AutoGrid Hexpress Components of above as standalone products

Type of Product Complete solution Complete solution, individual solvers, modelers, comp advanced modules. Stand-alone, Windows, UNIX,Linux.

Complete solution or standalone products

How many solvers? 1 integrated solver for compressible, incompressible, & thermal

5 (Adv Dynamics, Linear Statics & Steady State Heat Transfer; Modal, Buckling, Pre-Stress, Nonlinear Transient Heat Transfer

7: 1 CFD 3D-RANS analysis; 1 multi-objective multi-point optimization; 3 mesh gens; 1 turbo-machinery 3D param modeler; 1 flow visualization


2 - Rectang Adaptive Mesh (Hexahedral dom w/partial cells, adapts to geometry/flow conditions [optional] auto)

36, including some unique & industry specific (e.g. 3D Contact, Shear Panel)

Not supplied


Catia V5, ProEngineer Wildfire 2.0 or later.

NEiWorks embedded in SW. NEiNastran imports all major

Direct importation of CATIA, Parasolid, STL, IGES


No, but API extract results for FEA, other 3rd party software

Yes Yes (Phyton)


Yes No Yes (Numeca)

File Size Limit? None None None; hardware limitations. Material Properties? Any Alloys, Metals, Composites

Plastics, Wood, Bio All fluid types, including user-defined

Price? $23,000 to $30,700 full solution, inc. 1st year maint.

Solvers: $1,500 to $3,000 Modelers: $4,290 to $9,990

Contact company

Web Address www.nikafs.com www.nenastran.com www.numeca.com Contact Mike Harrison Sales Aji Purwanto, Sales & Mktg.

Alain Demeulenaere US Mgr Email [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (headqtrs.)

[email protected] Phone 530.346.9358 Toll free 877 NASTRAN or

714.899.1220 32 2.647.83.11 (headqtrs.) 480.456.9662 (USA)


PDE Solutions Inc. Pointwise, Inc. Rockfield Software

Products or Services? Product Both Both

Market(s)? FEA Multi-physics, multi-discipline

CFD Mechanical Structural Thermal Civil


FEA CFD N/A

Product(s) FlexPDE Gridgen ELFEN – Linear, Nonlinear, Adaptive and Discrete.

Type of Product Complete solution Preprocessor Complete Solution

How many solvers? Principle solver is conjugate gradient solver; includes several others; program will automatically choose one best suited to problem

N/A 2 – Implicit and Explicit


Not supplied 6: triangle, quadrilateral, tetrahedral, prism/wedge, hexahedron, pyramid

30 types currently and 10 in development.


No No; direct import of CATIA V4 & V5, Pro/E, UGS NX, STEP

ELFEN integrates through an advanced IGES import facility


Not supplied Yes No, but we do support User Defined Subroutines.


Not supplied Yes We have a parametric facility.

File Size Limit? Not supplied 2 GB Dynamically allocated; depends on computer system capabilities.

Material Properties? Not supplied N/A Assuming material data to input in database, any material.

Price? FlexPDE 2D: US$795 FlexPDE 3D: US$1,995

Full version: US$9,500 Academics: US$2,000

Full Software Solution £13,500; Intro Pack. £1,000

Web Address www.pdesolutions.com www.pointwise.com www.rockfield.co.uk

Contact Earl H. Blevis Rick Matus John Cain


Phone 925.776.2407 888.GRIDGEN Office +44 1792 455577 Mobile +44 7779 231180


Sciences Computer Consultants

Stress Engineering Services, Inc.

Structural Analysis, Inc.

Products or Services? Software & service Service Service

Market(s)? Thermo-mechanical Thermal

Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, Metallurgical, Chemical, Marine and Petroleum

Mechanical, structural, thermal


Fluid FEM thermal,

FEA and CFD Finite Element Analysis, Stress Analysis, Dynamic Analysis, Failure Analysis.

Product(s) LUDOVIC XIMEX (released ) THOST (under development)

ABAQUS, FEA tool; FLUENT, CFD tool

None

Type of Product Bundle of pre/post & solver None

How many solvers? One for each line of products. NA


1 : FEM unstructured NA


No, only compatible through STL formats.

NA


No NA


No NA

File Size Limit? Up to 5M Elements Tetraedrons

NA

Material Properties? Metal, ceramics, polymers, food.

NA

Price? $15,000 to $80,000 NA

Web Address www.scconsultants.com http://www.ximex.info

www.stresseng.com www.sai-mtab.com

Contact Philippe David Terry Lechinger Ellis F. Morgan, P.E.


Phone (33)4.77.49.75.80 281.955.2900 512.328.8198


Structural Reliability

Technology Transoft International

Vistagy, Inc.

Products or Services? Both Both Both Market(s)? Mechanical

Structural Thermal For aero and petrochemical

Acoustics Fluid Flow Mechanical Structural Thermal For general environmental and process engineering

CFD Structural Thermal


Fracture (safe/unsafe) Heat Transfer (transient thermal conditions) Stress (structural; to support fracture analysis) Weld Simulation

Fluid Flow Fluid Structure Interaction (thermal and stress) Coupled Flow/Acoustics Explosion Pollution Dispersion

Preprocessor to CFD and FEA only

Product(s) FEA-Crack FEA-Flaw FractureGraphic PetroFit

Fluidyn-MP (complete soln.) Fluidyn-CHT Fluidyn-FSI Fluidyn-CAF Fluidyn-NS

FiberSIM

Type of Product Complete solution Complete solution Preprocessor How many solvers? 3 matrix solvers for FEA; can

access solvers in other FEA programs.

7: 3 fluid for convection; 2 structural for conduction & stress calculation; 2 acoustic

NA


3D crack meshes are limited to brick elements to support calculation of the J-integral

3D: Hexa, pyramid, prism (wedge), tetra 2D: Triangular, rectangular 1D: Beams, springs, etc.

NA


No. Neutral file formats. No. Imports IGES; CGNS Converter available

CATIA v4 & v5, UGS, Pro/E (2001, Wildfire)


No, but can input data via spreadsheet

Yes Yes


No, but can input data via spreadsheet

Yes No

File Size Limit? None None None Material Properties? Metal alloys, user-defined

material data Fluids, solids Composites

Price? Varies; $2,500 - $17,000 Single-seat & Network licenses

Contact company. Free download of starter version with $900/year user club membership

Contact company

Web Address www.srt-boulder.com www.fluidyn.com www.vistagy.com Contact Donna Snyman Mr. Sharad Tripathi Ed Bernardon Email [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Phone 303.415.1475 925.284.1200 USA

33 (0)1.42.43.16.66 Europe 781 250 6800 x300


Zace Services Ltd.

Products or Services? Both

Market(s)? Geotechnical Structural

Main Type(s) of Analysis Nonlinear up to failure in solids, Structures+2 phase media

Product(s) Z_Soil.pc

Type of Product Complete solution

How many solvers? 4


Up to 30


No


Yes


In progress

File Size Limit? 2GB

Material Properties? Metal, soil, rock, concrete, structures, ie. Elasto-plasticity . visco-plasticity, dmage, fracture

Price? Contact company

Web Address www.zace.com

Contact Kurt

Email [email protected]

Phone 41 0 21 802 4605

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