Analyzing Design
09/05/2008 07:28 PM
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Who's the boss? |
After reviewing the role of management in the design analysis process, I was asked, “You mentioned that a company's management team is often the "block" for the successful implementation of COSMOSWorks. In what way? Do they not want to pay...
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09/05/2008 07:28 PM
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It's Your Choice... |
On a recent COSMOS Companion Real-World Analysis webcast, I showed a COSMOSWorks user how to speed up a several hour static solution to 26 seconds (!) with some intuitive simplification techniques. The results were the same or even better since...
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09/05/2008 07:28 PM
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"We've made 'contact'... |
In preparing a text for NAFEMS (www.nafems.org) on analysis for design engineers, I made the decision to include a discussion of contact conditions (natural part-part interactions) in a chapter on boundary conditions. Since contact requires a nonlinear solution, it is...
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09/05/2008 07:28 PM
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Putting the Fun Back(?) in FEA |
In a recent Business Week article, Greg Blonder, a technologist and partner at Morgenthaler Ventures, describes a paradox in science education that may be responsible for the declining ranks of scientists & engineers in this country. He points out that...
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09/05/2008 07:28 PM
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What do we really know? |
One of my oldest worn out sayings, “Vince-isms” as my friend Brian King, the chairman of the Illinois/Wisconsin COSMOS User Group calls them, is that engineers, especially ones utilizing analysis techniques, “need to learn to differentiate what they know from...
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09/05/2008 07:28 PM
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Where were you 5 years ago? |
It's hard to believe it has been 5 years since the World Trade Ctr disaster. Like many of you, I have those images burned into my memory and as I watched specials and commemorations over the weekend, those images were...
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09/05/2008 07:28 PM
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"...the more they stay the same." |
I was recently referred to Rachael Dalton-Taggart's blog on PR for the CAE Industry, and more specifically, her comments on CAE ads from 1993. She stated that while the ads looks slicker, the message is still the same. In 1993,...
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09/05/2008 07:28 PM
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Can you read the writing on the 'ball"? |
Stop me if you’ve heard this one… “Hey…what does the clock say?” “It doesn’t say anything, you have to read it!” This old joke has special meaning in our household as our oldest, the college bound freshman, never quite made...
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09/05/2008 07:28 PM
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Update - The COSMOS Companion |
As the COSMOS Companion program enters its second series of topics for COSMOS users, I wanted to update everyone on some important info, mostly gleaned from a survey of attendees done in July 2006. The program has completed 11 webcasts...
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09/05/2008 07:28 PM
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Camp Invention – For practicing engineers? |
I just got back from the Camp Invention Inventor’s Showcase at the local grade school. My son, Noah, (the shovel model from the previous post) spent a week at this program sponsored by the US Patent and Trademark Office and...
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