Elmer FEM is an excellent open-source finite element software for general-purpose multi-physics simulations. It is being developed throug...
CalculiX is an outstanding general-purpose open-source finite element software based on the GPL open-source license, which can run on bot...
For users conducting CAE analysis, material definition can be complex process. It is meticulous because the crucial material parameters r...
Modern CAE software not only possess powerful analysis capabilities but also feature excellent graphical user interfaces. However, there ...
The automated testing system is an essential facility for modern large-scale software. Given that the computational results of general-pu...
The general engineering simulation analysis software WELSIM has released its latest 2024R1 version (internal version number 2.8). Compare...
In three-dimensional CAE simulation analysis, it is often necessary to select interior surfaces of geometric bodies or choose surfaces th...
Palace is an open-source, large-scale computational electromagnetic software package supported by the AWS Lab. It is feature-rich and cap...
GDS is a universal 2D CAD electronic layout format widely used in the integrated circuit and chip industry. The simple syntax and broad e...
GDSII, short for Graphic Design System, is a data format used for the exchange of integrated circuit or layout data in Electronic Design ...
Shockwaves are a complex physical phenomenon. When an object’s velocity exceeds the speed of sound in a medium, shockwaves are generated ...
In engineering, there are many unsteady fluid problems that cannot be simply solved using steady-state methods. Unsteady flows are primar...
General-purpose engineering simulation CAE software developer WELSIM has released its latest 2023R3 version (internal version number 2.7)...
WELSIM is currently the only engineering simulation CAE software in the world that offers an automated regression testing system to end u...
With the rapid development of engineering simulation CAE software over the past few decades, it has become a highly complex and intricate...
An Automated Regression Testing System is a vital component for all large software products. It’s used to verify the software will contin...
The process of deformation to ultimate failure in a structural material involves several stages: Elasticity -> Initial Necking -> C...
The Johnson-Cook constitutive and failure models were proposed by Johnson and Cook in the 1980s. Since then, they have been widely applie...
General-purpose engineering simulation software or CAE software involves lots of quantities and units due to its involvement with various...
Data is one of the core components of engineering software, so the stability of data reading, writing, conversion, and manipulation is vi...
General-purpose engineering simulation software is a comprehensive information product that integrates multiple fields such as software e...
Modern simulation engineering places high demands on software design and functionality. Not only do softwares need to provide extensive a...
Modern engineering simulation imposes higher requirements on software design and functionality. While also providing extensive features, ...
Nowadays, it is often vital to set multi-step conditions and time-varying boundary conditions when modeling real engineering problems. Th...
SU2 is an open-source CFD solver originally developed by Stanford University. With the continuous efforts of developers and users in rece...
The general-purpose engineering simulation software WELSIM has released the latest version 2023R2 (internal version 2.6). Compared with t...
Modern finite element analysis often involves multiple bodies. When the structure has strong stiffness and is not the main concern, we ma...
On February 22, 2023, AWS released its open-source project Palace for large-scale parallel computing electromagnetics. Palace is used at ...
There are a large number of transient problems in the fields of engineering simulation and scientific computing, which requires appropria...
The general engineering simulation software WELSIM has released the latest version 2023R1 (internally v2.5). Compared with the previous v...
OpenRadioss is an explicit dynamics solver based on the finite element method that was open-sourced by Altair Engineering Inc. (NASDAQ: A...
The general-purpose engineering simulation software WELSIM has released the latest version 2.4. Compared with the previous version, versi...
OpenRadioss is an open-source enterprise-grade explicit dynamics analysis software. Due to its powerful features and long history, OpenRa...
Plastic forming is one of the most important processing methods in modern industry. As small as spring winding, as large as automobile bo...
With the development of simulation technology, engineers and scientists are more and more interested in damage, fracture, failure, destru...
Shock and explosion are common subjects in modern engineering simulation. There have been many successful applications ranging from cell ...
ParaView is a powerful and open source 3D data visualization tool. Users can apply its 3D interaction or batch processing features to qui...
FrontISTR is a well-known free and open-source finite element analysis software. Since 2005, when the Japanese Ministry of Education fund...
MFEM (mfem.org) is one of the most active open-source partial differential equation (PDE) solver projects in recent years. Although this ...
With the development of big data and computational science, data mining and analysis tools play an increasingly important role. For gener...
Nowadays, no software product can be apart from open source projects or communities, and many large software and technology cooperations ...
The latest release boosts meshing using the HDF5 data exchange format.
The latest release enhances complex result view controlling features.
Latest release boosts complex post-processing simulation capabilities.
The beam is a specific structure commonly used in engineering. The beam can be made as an independent beam or can be combined with other ...
Modern electromagnetic research has penetrated various fields. In recent years, with the rapid development of new technologies such as 5G...
Curve fitting is a numerical process often used in data analysis. Its essence is to apply a certain model (or called a function or a set ...
The core loss of magnetic components plays an important role in engineering practices. Particularly at high-frequency conditions, the los...
In previous articles, we have introduced Arruda-Boyce, neo-Hookean, Mooney-Rivlin, Yeoh, Gent, Blatz-Ko and other hyperelastic models tha...
We have introduced the hyperelastic models commonly used in finite element analysis such as Arruda-Boyce, neo-Hookean, Mooney-Rivlin, Yeo...
In previous articles, we introduced Arruda-Boyce, neo-Hookean, Mooney-Rivlin, and Yeoh hyperelastic models. Today, let’s discuss another ...
Previously, we discussed the Arruda-Boyce, neo-Hookean, and Mooney-Rivlin models. In this article, we will be talking about the Yeoh hype...
In previous articles, we have introduced the hyperelastic model in nonlinear finite element analysis, and also introduced the well-known ...
In structural finite element analysis, non-metal materials such as rubber and biological tissues are often encountered. Because the mecha...
In structural finite element analysis, non-metallic materials such as rubber and biological materials are often encountered. Because the ...
When a finite element analysis model contains hyperelastic materials, engineers usually have little substantial data to help get the resu...
In engineering practices, various materials are often dealt with. So, it’s always essential for engineers to accurately and quickly defin...
Thermal (also called heat transfer) analysis is one of the commonly encountered analyses in engineering. Thermal analysis is used to pred...
With the development of finite element analysis technology, engineers are no longer satisfied with the one single step static analysis. T...
Transient structural analysis (also known as dynamic analysis) is a method used to determine the dynamic response of a structure over tim...
In the finite element analysis, the result always has a range. Whether it is the deformation, strain, stress in structural analysis, the ...
In the engineering design and calculation practice, various unit systems will be encountered. It is very important to convert these engin...
The blade design plays an essential role in the operation of the rotating machine. For example, the centrifugal force will increase as th...
The goal of the modal analysis is to get the mode shape and natural frequency of a structure. The calculated stress, strain, and displace...
Transient structural analysis is used to study the dynamic response of structures that are subjected to loads in the time domain. The tra...
The Hertz contact theory is a study of the local stress and strain distribution law when two objects contact with pressure. In 1881, H.R....
VTK (Visualization Toolkit) is an open source and object-oriented software system for computer graphics, image processing, visualization....
Tecplot is a versatile data analysis and visualization software. Tecplot can display from 2D curves to complex 3D dynamic contours. It fe...
The STL file format (stereolithography) is an interface protocol developed by 3D SYSTEMS in 1988. It is a 3D graphics file format for rap...
Linux SSH provides powerful remote access capabilities. Users can quickly access other Linux machines, such as clusters, using SSH comman...
WELSIM v1.7 recently announced the support of the CentOS 7 operating system, which is followed by the previously supported Ubuntu and Fed...
Recently, we have received many questions about acquiring and installing WELSIM. Everyone is welcome to download, install, and use this s...
The plate and shell structure is a structure in which the dimension in the thickness direction is much smaller than the size in the lengt...
WELSIM has released the Linux version at the March of 2018, the first supported distributions are Ubuntu 16.04 and Fedora 27. Today I wil...
There are various types rotating machinery in industrial practices, such as fans, compressors, pumps, centrifuges, steam turbines, etc. D...
The structural analysis of the assembly using WELSIM is straightforward. The main steps are: (1) define the materials; (2) create geometr...
The frame structure is widely used in engineering and often seen in large and medium-sized buildings such as stations, ports, and industr...
Modal analysis plays an important role in the structural analysis. Many essential components or entire machine designs need to avoid the ...
The furnace is one of the most commonly used equipment in the industry. The gas burned in the furnace combustion chamber is discharged th...
Plate structure with holes is widely applied in engineering practices. The reason making holes on the plate could vary, some for installi...
In structural mechanics analysis, we are often interested in the reaction of the structure at the fixed end, in addition to the conventio...
The workload of finite element analysis is relatively large. Engineers will add many settings and variables in the analysis process. If t...
The latest release boosts complex engineering simulation with thermal analysis capabilities.
Latest release boosts complex engineering simulation with nonlinear solver capabilities.
The metal connector is widely applied in the mechanical engineering. As shown in the figure below, a typical connector has elbow shape, t...
In this essay, we demonstrate a stress analysis of a plate with a central single circular hole subjected to axial loads. The aim of this ...