NASA Tech Briefs Names ALGOR V20 as Product of the Month
 PITTSBURGH,
Pennsylvania, June 5, 2007 - NASA Tech Briefs (NTB), an official publication
of the U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) that features
exclusive reports of innovations developed by NASA and its industry
partners/contractors, announced that ALGOR V20 finite element analysis (FEA)
software was selected as the Product of the Month for June 2007. ALGOR V20
is the latest product release from ALGOR, Inc., a leading provider of
design, analysis and simulation software located in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
"The NASA Tech Briefs Product of the Month represents the one product
received by our editors each month that exhibits exceptional technical merit
and practical value for our 190,000 design engineering readers," said Linda
L. Bell, NASA Tech Briefs' Editorial Director. NTB editors choose the
Product of the Month from all new product releases received during the prior
month (usually well into the hundreds) based on the product's uniqueness and
importance to design engineers. At the end of the year, the 12 Products of
the Month are placed on a ballot on the NTB web site, and NTB readers choose
the Product of the Year from those 12 nominees.
"This recognition by a leading engineering trade publication attests to
ALGOR V20's responsiveness to market needs for faster, easier-to-use
analysis tools," said ALGOR Product Manager Bob Williams. "V20's new,
faster, completely integrated CAD/FEA modeling environment is one example of
how our product development process continues to be driven by customer
requests."
Some of the highlights of ALGOR V20 include:
- support for design scenarios (perform multiple analyses using
different analysis types, load sets and constraint sets for the same
model)
- a wizard for applying bolt loads
- support for design studies and size optimization
- improved meshing tools including isoparametric second-order brick
elements (midside nodes follow curvature)
- enhanced capabilities for fluid flow analysis:
- support for multiple rotating frames of reference for 3-D
modeling of complex fans and similar systems
- k-epsilon turbulence model for 3-D transient mixed Galerkin/Least-Squares
(GLS) formulation with surface roughness effects
- buoyancy effects for transient analyses
- total pressure boundary for 3-D
- static pressure boundary with backflow for 3-D
- inlet and outlet vent for 3-D
- faster, best-in-class sparse solver for fluid flow, heat transfer
and linear dynamic analyses
- updated Material Library Manager with new directory structure
organization and tree view
- reinforced (rebar) concrete element and material model for
Mechanical Event Simulation
- capability to define results-based load curves for Mechanical Event
Simulation
- enhanced multiphysics analysis including coupled unsteady fluid flow
and transient heat with buoyancy effects
- capability to use element length as a result type and in custom
calculations
ALGOR's wide range of
simulation capabilities includes static stress and Mechanical Event
Simulation (MES) with linear and nonlinear material models, linear dynamics,
fatigue, steady-state and transient heat transfer, steady and unsteady fluid
flow, electrostatics, full multiphysics and piping.
To learn more about the NASA Tech Briefs Product of the Month, visit
www.techbriefs.com. For more
information about ALGOR software, contact an ALGOR account manager or visit
our web site – www.ALGOR.com.
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