Users are encouraged to request enhancements to ESRD software products at any time by filling out the Request for ESRD Support form and checking the “Feature enhancement” box. Provide your enhancement request in the Message.

Enhancement requests will be assigned a priority based on the general interest of the ESRD software product user community and implemented when time and resources are available.

If an enhancement is of particular importance, it is possible to have the functionality added to ESRD software products in a timely manner by funding a development contract. If the requested feature is of sufficient interest to the general ESRD software product user community, ESRD may consider rebating the cost of the development back to the contractor in the form of rebates or discounts to be applied to future purchases of ESRD software product licenses.

ESRD has responded to many customer enhancement requests, a few of which are listed below:

• Automated Coldworking Analysis
• Thin Solid Elements
• Margin Check Analysis
• Laminated Properties in Cylindrical Coordinates
• J1 Failure Criteria for Composites
• Global/Local Analysis
• Incremental Theory of Plasticity
• TLAP (Total Load at A Point)
• Automatic Lamination
• 64-bit Batch Solver Utility
• SRS/BRS