December 14, 2017 at 1:00 pm EST

High-Fidelity Stress Analysis for S.A.F.E.R. Structural Simulation Webinar

Strategies in engineering simulation for reducing the frequency, cost, complexity, and uncertainty of aircraft maintenance inspection intervals.

In this webinar we will share advancements in numerical simulation that make the performance of finite element analysis S.A.F.E.R. – Simple, Accurate, Fast, Efficient, and Reliable.

We will introduce a different approach to numerical simulation that has been developed and commercialized by ESRD which takes much of the art and craft out of finite element modeling.
An example engineering design problem from the aviation industry, requiring accurate results around stress concentrations to meet durability requirements for a long crack initiation life, will be presented.
LIVE DEMO: You will see a demonstration of ESRD’s StressCheck and its live dynamic results mining of any value of interest, anywhere throughout the model regardless of the mesh topology, as rapid design changes are conducted, evaluated and parametrically iterated.

“The p-type element has been used to great advantage in the finite element system ESRD StressCheck, [26]. This software provides the engineer with the means to conduct solution verification in an extremely straightforward manner by simply increasing the degree of the element, monitoring convergence and using Richardson extrapolation reliably to estimate the error. This can be conducted automatically by the software thereby enabling the engineer to concentrate on the engineering rather than the simulation. StressCheck has also been used to develop ESRD’s Handbook and Toolbox applications. The first of these provides engineers with a repository of parameterised standard problems of the type found in texts like Roark’s “Formulas for Stress and Strain”, [27]. The second, Toolbox, is a tool that can be used to parameterise a company’s range of components for rapid and reliable analysis by non-expert analysis. Toolbox then is an exemplary of the way in which the democratisation of simulation can be applied.”

Angus Ramsay, PhD
Engineering Director, Ramsay Maunder Associates