Computer Modeling & Analysis

When you are developing hardware (whether it is a steel frame, a die, an electrical circuit -- whatever), are you often frustrated by costly iterations of building and testing?  Do you too frequently find with each iteration that there was one more problem with the design?

We hate it when that happens.

AutoCAD™ is the industry standard for computer drafting.
IDEAS™ from SDRC is a full-featured package for drafting and 3D solid modeling.
Solidworks™ is for 3D solid modeling.
LS-DYNA 3D™ is for 3D stress and thermal finite element analysis.
CALE is a 2D hydrocode for electromagnetics.
ALGOR™ is for finite element analysis of stress, shock, and vibration.
NISA/3D-FLUID™ from EMRC is for 3D analysis of fluid flow and heat transfer.
MEGA™ is for 3D analysis of magnetic fields and stresses created by magnetic forces.
PSpice™ from Orcad/Microsim models electrical circuits.
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That's one of the reasons IAP keeps on the leading edge of engineering by constantly updating our arsenal of computer modeling tools.  These tools help us to model and analyze hardware on the computer.  And every computerized design iteration is much faster and cheaper than a cycle of build, test, fail, and blame someone.

The table shows some of the computer modeling tools we use, and the types of analysis we can do with them.

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