FEA Results on a real Prototype | ||
| Z Corporation | Z Corporation Z Corp. 3D Rapid Prototyping Printers can be used to output finite element analysis data in full color. VRML is used for data exchange. (details ...). Their software accepts VRML files from Ansys, Cosmos, Moldflow, Solidworks and immersive SIGHT (Abaqus and Nastran). |
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Pre- / Post- Processors | ||
| HyperMesh / HyperWorks | Altair | |
| FEMAP | ||
| MSC PATRAN |  |
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| GiD | International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Spain) | |
| ANSA | only preprocessing | |
| META | BETA CAE Systems SA Postprocessor (NASTRAN Op2 & Bulk Data, ABAQUS, LS-DYNA) |
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| MEDINA | T-Systems International GmbH | |
| TrueGrid | XYZ Scientific Applications, Inc. Pre- und Postprocessor (hexaeder meshing) |
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| FEMGV - FEMGEN / FEMVIEW | Femsys Ltd. | |
| EnSight | Computational Engineering International (CEI) for CFD, FEA and Crash |
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| Medit | a meshviewer with remarkable postprocessing skills. Free binaries for a number of operating systems | |
| Salome | Open Source (LPGL) Pre- and Post-Processing (included in the CAELinux LiveCD) | |
| Gmsh | Open Source three-dimensional finite element mesh generator with built-in pre- and post-processing facilities | |
| immersive SIGHT | immersive SIM engineering special postprocessor for visualisation of FE models and results using the internet suitable VRML format |
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| immersive SIGHT conference | immersive SIM engineering multiuser-version of immersive SIGHT. Allows online discussions of FEA results |
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Free-, Shareware and low-cost FE programs | ||
| Z88 Aurora | FE-solver for LINUX, Windows (XP, 7), Mac OS X (from SnowLeopard) | |
| FElt | for X11 and Windows | |
| pdnmesh | 2D FE-program with Delaunay mesh generator | |
| FEMSET | BASIC, Fortran and C versions and sourcecode | |
| MBDyn | MBDyn is a free software Multi Body Dynamics analysis system. It has been developed at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale of the University "Politecnico di Milano", Italy |
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| Aladdin | "Aladdin is a computational toolkit for the interactive matrix and finite element analysis of large engineering structures, particularly building and highway bridge structures. Aladdin views finite element computations as a specialized form of matrix computations, matrices as rectangular arrays of physical quantities, and numbers as dimensionless physical quantities." | |
| CalculiX | 3D-FE-Program for Linux und other Unixes | |
| TOCHNOG | Finite Elemente Program under GPL for Linux and other Operating Systems | |
| FELIPE v.3 | inexpensive ( < 100 Euro) 2D "Finite Element Learning Package" from Brunel University (with Fortran Sourcecode) | |
| SLFFEA | 3-D FEA under GPL for Linux | |
| Code_Aster | extensive Fortran Solver under GPL (from EDF - Electricité de France - documentation mainly in French. Included in the CAELinux LiveCD) | |
| UNA | 3-D Finite-Elemente-Program for Windows 95/NT/2000/ME (Static Analysis, Modal Analysis, Elastic Buckling, Substructuring, Transient Response, Frequency Response, Random Vibrations, Aeroelastic Response) This program comes with the book "FEM mit NASTRAN - Einf�hrung und Umsetzung mit Lernprogramm UNA" from R�diger Heim, Hanser Verlag (2005 - ISBN: 3-446-22958-2) |
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| OOF | Object-Oriented Finite Element Analysis of real Material Structures |
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| MYSTRAN | Free NASTRAN clone for Windows (no source) | |
| FEMM | a Windows program for defining, solving, and postprocessing 2D planar and axisymmetric problems of magnetostatics, eddy currents, and electrostatics | |
| DUNS | The DUNS (Diagonalized Upwind Navier-Stokes)code is a 2D/3D, structured, multi-block, multi-species,reacting, steady/unsteady, Navier Stokes fluid dynamics code with q-omega turbulence model. It currently uses a diagonalized ADI procedure with upwind diff | |
| OpenFOAM | "The Open Source CFD Toolbox" | |
Universal FE-solvers and systems | ||
| ABAQUS | ABAQUS Inc. (former Hibbit, Karlson & Sorenson Inc. - HKS) 2005 acquired by Dassault Systèmes (Catia) | |
| MSC NASTRAN | MSC | |
| NEiNastran | Noran Engineering, Inc. NASTRAN (Win, Linux, AIX) |
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| MARC | purchased by MSC some time ago | |
| ANSYS | |
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| Algor | ||
| STAAD | Research Engineers, Inc. FE-System for PCs |
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| Adina | |
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| Solvia | linear and nonlinear stress and temperature calculations under Windows, Unix and Linux | |
| Zebulon | from Northwest Numerics also for Linux, with interesting clustering approach |
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| PERMAS | Intes | |
Solver for dynamic simulations (Crash, Impact) | ||
| PAM-Crash | ESI | |
| LS-Dyna | |
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| RADIOSS | ||
Fluiddynamics (CFD) | ||
| STAR-CD | |
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| Fluent, Fidap, Polyflow | |
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Molding simulation | ||
| Moldflow, C-Mold | ||
| Cadmould | simcon kunststofftechnische Software GmbH Calculates thermoplastics, rubber, thermosets, RIM materials. From filling through packing phase to end of shrinkage and warpage. Special processes: GAIM, Sandwich, Injection compression molding, 2 components parts (hard / soft) |
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| immersive FIBER | immersive SIM engineering Interface between MOLDFLOW und ABAQUS, which allowes thermo mechanical simulations of injection molded, short fibre reinforced components with anisotropic material laws |
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Kinematics (mechanical system simulation) and Multibody Systems (MBS) | ||
| ADAMS | ||
| Simpack | ||
Acoustics | ||
| COMET | COLLINS & AIKMAN (former Automated Analysis Corporation) | |
| SYSNOISE | LMS | |
Material Simulation | ||
| Palmyra | MatSim | |
Fatigue | ||
| FE-Fatigue | nCode International Limited | |
| FEMFAT | = Finite Element Method & FATigue (Engineering Center Steyr GmbH) | |
BEM (Boundary Element Method) | ||
| BEASY | ||
| BEFE | Boundary Element & Finite Element Program (offline?) | |
Related Topics | ||
| CAELinux | To give it a try: CAELinux is a Linux LiveCD with Code_Aster, Salome and many other Open Source CAE-Tools | |
| femML | "The finite element modeling Markup Language (femML) effort is addressing the problems of data interpretation and
application interoperability in the Finite Element Modeling domain. femML is an XML-based language for describing finite element models and associated results for inter - and intra- application data exchange and integration." |
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Organisations | ||
| www.nafems.org | Nafems (National Agency for Finite Element Methods & Standards) | |
Newsgroups | ||
| sci.engr.civil | ||
| sci.engr.mech | ||
| FEA-L | Description: The listserver for the FEA forum, the MechEng Finite Element Analysis User Group subscribe ... Subsequent postings to fea-l@mecheng.asme.org |
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