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The analysis challenge: Abaqus sets an ease-of-use strategy for fracture, failure.( )
Industry Week, March, 2005 by Teresko, John
HOW DO YOU WANT YOUR product to fail? An engineering software vendor, Abaqus Inc., Providence, R.I., is setting a business strategy to begin delivering engineering analysis software for answering such questions quickly, easily and more routinely.
For example, with some products the fracture and failure modes have to be built in, explains Dale Berry, manager of engineering applications. "Consider that some medical products need to be easily broken to fulfill their mission of being a single-use product," he explains. "Manufacturers of such single-use medical products need to either physically test or simulate, via computer, that fracture and failure mode."
Other questions manufacturers need answered include:
* How long will a product last?...
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