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Analysis Options Roundup
Vendors Reference Guide October 2005
Our 2005 Analysis Reference Guide features data from 25 companies active in this burgeoning segment of the industry. Studying this Reference Guide will equip you to make better informed buying decisions. Not to mention all details are readily available since the contact information and names you need are included right with the product and/or service descriptions.
In addition, our Analysis Options Roundup covers indepth exploration of issues and techniques in the following features written by industry leaders:
Analysis Options Roundup: An Overview
Here's brief Overview with links to all segments of our 2005 Analysis Options Roundup, including our Vendor Reference Guide and two feature stories by industry experts.
Analyzing Fluid-Structure Interaction with ABAQUS and FLUENT
In a joint initiative, ABAQUS and Fluent launched sophisticated co-simulation software tools that account for coupling effects. Includes animations!
How to Manage FEA in the Design Process
Many companies have realized several or all of these benefits. Some, however, are getting more benefit than others. Learn how to get your fair share.
This data was compiled from submissions by participating companies, and is not an exhaustive list of companies in the Analysis industry. In addition, ConnectPress cannot guarantee the accuracy of the data; we suggest you contact these companies for further information.
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ABAQUS, Inc. ALGOR, Inc. ANSYS, Inc.
Products or Services? Both Both Both
Market(s)? All All Automotive, Aerospace, Biomedical, Power, Generation, Machinery, Electronics, Defense, Petrochemical
Main Type(s) of Analysis
Static, Dynamic, Thermal, Non-Linear, Fluid structure, Interaction
Mechanical Structural Thermal Electrostatics Multiphysics Fatigue, Fluid flow, Piping design & analysis
Structural Thermal Fluid Electromagnetics Dynamics Multiphysics Coupling
Product(s) ABAQUS/Standard ABAQUS/Explicit ABAQUS/CAE ABAQUS for CATIA V5
FEA Mechanical Event Simulation PipePak Piping Design InCAD Data Exchange
ANSYS CFX Autodyn ICEM CFD
Type of Product Complete solution Complete solution Complete solution
How many solvers? 2 fundamental (integrated implicit and explicit); several solution techniques for each.
11 (including parallel processing for multiple processors)
Direct and iterative solvers that enable parallel computing
How Many Different Element Types?
Well over 100 370 175 total Contact, Field, Fluid, Shells, Solids
Integrated With Any CAD?
Full integration with CATIA; Direct geometry transfer with other major MCAD systems
Autodesk Inventor Pro/E SolidWorks Solid Edge ACIS, IGES, STEP, STL
Autodesk Inventor CATIA Pro/E SolidWorks Solid Edge NX One Space Designer Parasolid, SAT, IGES, STEP
Own Scripting Language?
Yes, both scripting and GUI customization
Yes Yes
Own Parametric Design Language?
Yes (its scripting language); ABAQUS/CAE is a parametric geometry modeler.
Yes Yes
File Size Limit? None Limited only by operating system.
None
Material Properties? All popular metals, plastics; many composites. Material customization allowed.
Any engineering material, including composites. Built-in library, 50,000 types.
Composites Gases Liquids Metal Plastic Rubber
Price? Contact company $6,000--$30,000, call for lease pricing
Full solution: $50,000 Basic: $4,500
Web Address www.abaqus.com
www.algor.com
www.ansys.com
Contact Sales Sales Sales
Email [email protected]
Phone 401.727.4200 412.967.2700 866.267.9724
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Blue Ridge Numerics, Inc.
CD-adapco
Dimensional Control Systems
Products or Services? Both Both Both
Market(s)? Mechanical Thermal
Acoustics Chemistry Flow Thermal Stress Multiphysics
Engineering Manufacturing Quality
Main Type(s) of Analysis
Fluid Flow Heat Transfer
CAD add-ins CFD FEA
Dimensional Variation
Product(s) CFdesign CAD: STAR-CAD series CFD: STAR-CD, STAR-CCM+ CFD Expert System Tools
1DCS Linear Tolerance Analysis 3DCS Variation Analysis DCS-DFC Datum Flow Chain GDM-3D Graphical Data Reporting
Type of Product Complete solution Complete solution Complete solution
How many solvers? 1 (2 optional add-on modules) 3 Not supplied
How Many Different Element Types?
Multiple Not supplied Not supplied
Integrated With Any CAD?
Autodesk Inventor CATIA Pro/E SolidWorks Solid Edge UGS NX
CATIA V5 Pro/E SolidWorks UGS NX UGS 18
CATIA V5 UGS
Own Scripting Language?
Yes Yes Yes
Own Parametric Design Language?
No (uses integrated MCAD language)
Yes No
File Size Limit? None None No
Material Properties? Any fluid or solid. Extensive materials database.
Any Any
Price? $19,900 - $28,900 per perpetual license; includes 12-month support software updates
N/A As low as $1,000
Web Address www.cfdesign.com
www.cd-adapco.com
www.3dcs.com
Contact Jim Spann Sales Richard M. Rots
Email [email protected]
Phone 434.977.2764, x120 631.549.2300 No. America 44 (0)207.471.6200 (Europe)
248.269.9777
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Dynamic Design Solutions
ESI Group
IMPACT Engineering Solutions, Inc.
Products or Services? Both Both Mechanical engineering, high end simulation services & training
Market(s)? Mechanical Structural NVH Dynamics
Acoustics Mechanical Metallurgical Structural Thermal
Mechanical
Main Type(s) of Analysis
Analytical Modal Analysis Model Updating Probabilistic Analysis Sensitivity Analysis Linear
CFD Crashworthiness FEA NVH Stamping Stress
Nonlinear Plastic, Transient Dynamic, Fatigue, Large Assemblies
Product(s) FEMtools Correlation FEMtools Framework FEMtools Pretest FEMtools Updating FEMTools Optimization
AutoSEA2 PAM-CRASH PAM-SAFE PAM-STAMP
Use: ANSYS, Nastran, Pro/MECHANICA, LS-Dyna Nonlinear Plastic, Transient Dynamic, Fatigue, Large Assemblies
Type of Product Complete solution Complete solution Complete solution
How many solvers? 4 30 6
How Many Different Element Types?
All for structural analysis 10 All common element types
Integrated With Any CAD?
No Autodesk Inventor CATIA V5 SolidWorks
Inventor Pro/E SolidWorks
Own Scripting Language?
Yes Yes Yes
Own Parametric Design Language?
No No Yes
File Size Limit? None None No practical limit
Material Properties? All linear material models Any (provided material data available)
No practical limitations
Price? US$10,000 - $25,000 Starts around $10,000 NA
Web Address www.femtools.com
www.esi-group.com
www.impactengsol.com
Contact Eddy Dascotte Olivier Morisot Vince Adams
Email [email protected]
Phone 32 16.40.23.00 Not supplied 847.499.5635
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Integrated Engineering
Software, Inc. (IES)
LUSAS
MSC.Software
Products or Services?
Products Both Both
Market(s)? Structural Mechanical Civil / Structural Thermal Composites Materials
CAD-embedded Analysis Controls/Hydraulics Data, process mgmt. Explicit nonlinear (crash) Fatigue, FE Modeling, Mechanical, Motion, NVH, Nonlinear, Stress, hermal
Main Type(s) of Analysis
Static Linear Analysis, 2nd Order P-Delta, Dynamic Response (Modal Superposition), Nonlinear Time-History
Static Dynamic Nonlinear Thermal
Motion NVH Nonlinear Stress
Product(s) VisualAnalysis Package, ShapeBuilder, AnalysisGroup, QuickRWall
LUSAS Analyst LUSAS Composite LUSAS Civil & Structural LUSAS Bridge
SimOffice (MSC.Nastran, MSC.ADAMS, MSC.Patran, MSC.EASY5, more), MSC SimManager SimDesigner
Type of Product complete solutions, or modeling & analysis only.
Complete solution Complete solution
How many solvers? One, with many variations and options
5: Frontal Direct Solver, Fast Multi-frontal Direct Solver, PCCG Solver, Multifrontal Block Lanczos Eigensolver, Complex Eigensolver.
8
How Many Different Element Types?
Beam/Truss, 3 or 4 node thin or thick Plate/Shell, elastic Spring Supports (translation or rotation), Catenary Cables. Trusses/ springs may be tension-only or compression-only
100 All currently available
Integrated With Any CAD?
No direct CAD integration, some products support DXF data exchange.
No. IGES and DXF import facility provided.
CATIA, Pro/E, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, UGS NX
Own Scripting Language?
No automation support, some products sup-port text-based scripting languages for file I/O.
Yes. Yes
Own Parametric Design Language?
No. Yes, via scripting language Yes
File Size Limit? Size is limited by Windows virtual memory system.
Limited by op system & hardware
None
Material Properties? Linear, isotropic materials of any type.
All commonly-used eng. materials incl composites.
All
Price? $395 - $2500 Contact company Starts at $10,000
Web Address www.iesweb.com
www.lusas.com
www.mscsoftware.com
Contact Terry Kubat Terry Cakebread Catherine Meek
Email [email protected] sales [email protected]
tech [email protected]
Phone 800.707.0816, or 406.586.8988
800.97.LUSAS 714.445.3066
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Nika Fluid Solutions
Noran Engineering NUMECA Internatl
Products or Services? Both Both Both
Market(s)? Fluid dynamics, thermal analysis, CAD embedded analysis
Auto, aero, marine, petro chem, turbomachinery, consumer, medical, power generation, industrial processes, electronics, and military products.
Fluid Flow Analysis & Optim, Multiphysics for auto, aero, rotating machinery, environ-mnt, HVAC, indus process, marine, power gen, propulsn
Main Type(s) of Analysis
CFD (liquids, gases), Thermal (conduction, convection, radiation)
Structural , Dynamic, Modal, Shock, Vibration, Crash, Drop, Thermal, Motion Fluid Dynamics CFD Non linear, Contact- 3D Composites, Fatigue Aeroelasti- city, Multiphysics Optimization, Event Simulation & Animation
CFD Turbomachinery Design and Optimization
Product(s) EFD.Lab, EFD.Pro, EFD.V5 NEiNastran for all major CAD systems, NEiWorks embedded in SolidWorks; Complementary Modules: NEiMotion, NEiFatigue NEiFluid Dynamics, NEiAdvanced Composites NEiAeroelasticity NEiAdvanced Thermal
FINE/Design3D FINE/Hexa FINE/Turbo AutoGrid Hexpress Components of above as standalone products
Type of Product Complete solution Complete solution, individual solvers, modelers, comp advanced modules. Stand-alone, Windows, UNIX,Linux.
Complete solution or standalone products
How many solvers? 1 integrated solver for compressible, incompressible, & thermal
5 (Adv Dynamics, Linear Statics & Steady State Heat Transfer; Modal, Buckling, Pre-Stress, Nonlinear Transient Heat Transfer
7: 1 CFD 3D-RANS analysis; 1 multi-objective multi-point optimization; 3 mesh gens; 1 turbo-machinery 3D param modeler; 1 flow visualization
How Many Different Element Types?
2 - Rectang Adaptive Mesh (Hexahedral dom w/partial cells, adapts to geometry/flow conditions [optional] auto)
36, including some unique & industry specific (e.g. 3D Contact, Shear Panel)
Not supplied
Integrated With Any CAD?
Catia V5, ProEngineer Wildfire 2.0 or later.
NEiWorks embedded in SW. NEiNastran imports all major
Direct importation of CATIA, Parasolid, STL, IGES
Own Scripting Language?
No, but API extract results for FEA, other 3rd party software
Yes Yes (Phyton)
Own Parametric Design Language?
Yes No Yes (Numeca)
File Size Limit? None None None; hardware limitations.
Material Properties? Any Alloys, Metals, Composites Plastics, Wood, Bio
All fluid types, including user-defined
Price? $23,000 to $30,700 full solution, inc. 1st year maint.
Solvers: $1,500 to $3,000 Modelers: $4,290 to $9,990
Contact company
Web Address www.nikafs.com
www.nenastran.com
www.numeca.com
Contact Mike Harrison Sales Aji Purwanto, Sales & Mktg. Alain Demeulenaere US Mgr
Email [email protected]
[email protected] (headqtrs.) [email protected]
Phone 530.346.9358 Toll free 877 NASTRAN or 714.899.1220
32 2.647.83.11 (headqtrs.) 480.456.9662 (USA)
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PDE Solutions Inc. PlassoTech Inc. Pointwise, Inc.
Products or Services? Product Simulation Product Both
Market(s)? FEA Multi-physics, multi-discipline
Mechanical & thermal for manufacturing and engineering companies
CFD
Main Type(s) of Analysis
FEA Linear & nonlinear stress analysis, dynamic response, static & transient thermal analysis
CFD
Product(s) FlexPDE 3G.author 3G.central 3G.access
Gridgen
Type of Product Complete solution Complete solution Preprocessor
How many solvers? Principle solver is conjugate gradient solver; includes several others; program will automatically choose one best suited to problem
Complete solution contains number of solvers inside chosen automatically based on the problem type
N/A
How Many Different Element Types?
Not supplied High order tetra and triangular elements with point type elements such as mass
6: triangle, quadrilateral, tetrahedral, prism/wedge, hexahedron, pyramid
Integrated With Any CAD?
No Yes, Inventor, Pro/E, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, Catia, XXen, UG (06)
No; direct import of CATIA V4 & V5, Pro/E, UGS NX, STEP
Own Scripting Language?
Not supplied Contains COM based plug-in support
Yes
Own Parametric Design Language?
Not supplied Yes, through it's smart spreadsheet geometric and environmental variables can easily be parameterized
Yes
File Size Limit? Not supplied 2GB RAM, (64 bit system will be released in 2006)
2 GB
Material Properties? Not supplied Isotropic and orthotropic linear materials, as well as temperature dependent properties.
N/A
Price? FlexPDE 2D: US$795 FlexPDE 3D: US$1,995
$10K, $5k starter Full version: US$9,500 Academics: US$2,000
Web Address www.pdesolutions.com
www.plassotech.com
www.pointwise.com
Contact Earl H. Blevis
Tomi Mossessian Rick Matus
Email [email protected]
Phone 925.776.2407
818-225-8520 x-104 888.GRIDGEN
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Rockfield Software Sciences Computer Consultants
Stress Engineering Services, Inc.
Products or Services? Both Software & service Service
Market(s)? Mechanical Structural Thermal Civil
Thermo-mechanical Thermal
Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, Metallurgical, Chemical, Marine and Petroleum
Main Type(s) of Analysis
N/A Fluid FEM thermal,
FEA and CFD
Product(s) ELFEN Linear, Nonlinear, Adaptive and Discrete.
LUDOVIC XIMEX (released ) THOST (under development)
ABAQUS, FEA tool; FLUENT, CFD tool
Type of Product Complete Solution Bundle of pre/post & solver
How many solvers? 2 Implicit and Explicit One for each line of products.
How Many Different Element Types?
30 types currently and 10 in development.
1 : FEM unstructured
Integrated With Any CAD?
ELFEN integrates through an advanced IGES import facility
No, only compatible through STL formats.
Own Scripting Language?
No, but we do support User Defined Subroutines.
No
Own Parametric Design Language?
We have a parametric facility. No
File Size Limit? Dynamically allocated; depends on computer system capabilities.
Up to 5M Elements Tetraedrons
Material Properties? Assuming material data to input in database, any material.
Metal, ceramics, polymers, food.
Price? Full Software Solution £13,500; Intro Pack. £1,000
$15,000 to $80,000
Web Address www.rockfield.co.uk
www.scconsultants.com
http://www.ximex.info
www.stresseng.com
Contact John Cain Philippe David Terry Lechinger
Email [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected]
Phone Office +44 1792 455577 Mobile +44 7779 231180
(33)4.77.49.75.80 281.955.2900
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Structural Analysis, Inc.
Structural Reliability Technology
Transoft International
Products or Services? Service Both Both
Market(s)? Mechanical, structural, thermal Mechanical Structural Thermal For aero and petrochemical
Acoustics Fluid Flow Mechanical Structural Thermal For general environmental and process engineering
Main Type(s) of Analysis
Finite Element Analysis, Stress Analysis, Dynamic Analysis, Failure Analysis.
Fracture (safe/unsafe) Heat Transfer (transient thermal conditions) Stress (structural; to support fracture analysis) Weld Simulation
Fluid Flow Fluid Structure Interaction (thermal and stress) Coupled Flow/Acoustics Explosion Pollution Dispersion
Product(s) None FEA-Crack FEA-Flaw FractureGraphic PetroFit
Fluidyn-MP (complete soln.) Fluidyn-CHT Fluidyn-FSI Fluidyn-CAF Fluidyn-NS
Type of Product None Complete solution Complete solution
How many solvers? NA 3 matrix solvers for FEA; can access solvers in other FEA programs.
7: 3 fluid for convection; 2 structural for conduction & stress calculation; 2 acoustic
How Many Different Element Types?
NA 3D crack meshes are limited to brick elements to support calculation of the J-integral
3D: Hexa, pyramid, prism (wedge), tetra 2D: Triangular, rectangular 1D: Beams, springs, etc.
Integrated With Any CAD?
NA No. Neutral file formats. No. Imports IGES; CGNS Converter available
Own Scripting Language?
NA No, but can input data via spreadsheet
Yes
Own Parametric Design Language?
NA No, but can input data via spreadsheet
Yes
File Size Limit? NA None None
Material Properties? NA Metal alloys, user-defined material data
Fluids, solids
Price? NA Varies; $2,500 - $17,000 Single-seat & Network licenses
Contact company. Free download of starter version with $900/year user club membership
Web Address www.sai-mtab.com
www.srt-boulder.com
www.fluidyn.com
Contact Ellis F. Morgan, P.E. Donna Snyman Mr. Sharad Tripathi
Email [email protected]
Phone 512.328.8198 303.415.1475 925.284.1200 USA 33 (0)1.42.43.16.66 Europe
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Vistagy, Inc.
Zace Services Ltd.
Products or Services? Both Both
Market(s)? CFD Structural Thermal
Geotechnical Structural
Main Type(s) of Analysis Preprocessor to CFD and FEA only
Nonlinear up to failure in solids, Structures+2 phase media
Product(s) FiberSIM Z_Soil.pc
Type of Product Preprocessor Complete solution
How many solvers? NA 4
How Many Different Element Types?
NA Up to 30
Integrated With Any CAD?
CATIA v4 & v5, UGS, Pro/E (2001, Wildfire)
No
Own Scripting Language? Yes Yes
Own Parametric Design Language?
No In progress
File Size Limit? None 2GB
Material Properties? Composites Metal, soil, rock, concrete, structures, ie. Elasto-plasticity . visco-plasticity, dmage, fracture
Price? Contact company Contact company
Web Address www.vistagy.com
www.zace.com
Contact Ed Bernardon Kurt
Email [email protected]
Phone 781 250 6800 x300 41 0 21 802 4605