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ESRD Mission Statement

ESRD's primary mission is create and market software tools for the advancement of the quality, reliability and timeliness of information that serves the engineering decision-making process.

Motivated by economic incentives, CAE users strive to reduce physical testing and increase reliance on numerical simulation.

Technical requirement: Predictions based on numerical simulation must be reliable. Reliabiliity is achieved and enhanced through simulation governance.

The term simulation governance refers to procedures established for the purposes of ensuring and enhancing the reliability of predictions based on numerical simulation. These include the formulation of mathematical models, verification and validation procedures.

The conceptual and technological prerequisites are now sufficiently mature to establish simulation governance procedures in industrial settings.

ESRD’s software product StressCheck^® is the only FEA-based software tool that was designed to support simulation governance in the fields of mechanical, aerospace and structural engineering.

ESRD Leadership

Barna Szabó, Ph.D., P.E.

Barna Szabó is co-founder and president of Engineering Software Research and Development, Inc. (ESRD).

Prior to his retirement from the School of Engineering and Applied Science of Washington University in 2006 he served as the Albert P. and Blanche Y. Greensfelder Professor of Mechanics. His primary research interest is assurance of quality and reliability in numerical simulation of structural and mechanical systems by the finite element method. He has published over 150 papers in refereed technical journals, several of them in collaboration with Professor Ivo Babuška, with whom he also published two books on finite element analysis (Wiley, 1991, Wiley 2011). He is a founding member and Fellow of the US Association for Computational Mechanics. Among his honors are election to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as External Member and an honorary doctorate.