Finite-element analysis (FEA) lets engineers at Alliance Spacesystems Inc. (ASI) of Pasadena, Calif., build a lightweight, yet strong, robotic arm for NASA's "Spirit" Mars rover. By testing the arm ...

General-purpose FEA is well suited for the dozens of unexpected analysis tasks a company encounters everyday. But a few specialized jobs are more easily handled by focused programs. General-purpose ...

Hi there,<BR><BR>At my work we are doing some fairly heavy structural FE analyses using ANSYS and LS-DYNA on the PC platform (WinXP). While some dual processor capabilities are present in these ...

In 1984, Bussler created the first comprehensive finite element analysis system for personal computers. As the president and CEO of Algor, he has developed and overseen multiple engineering software ...

You expect analysis news from FEA software developers, but how about from Microsoft? It's true, says Ted Pawela, an application engineer with MSC.Software, Santa Ana, Calif. (mscsoftware.com). "By ...