www.nCode.com: Latest News http://www.ncode.com/ Latest news from www.nCode.com en www.nCode.com: Latest News http://www.ncode.com/typo3conf/ext/tt_news/ext_icon.gif http://www.ncode.com/ 18 16 Latest news from www.nCode.com TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:44:00 +0200 nCode Software Certified by GL Renewables Certification http://www.ncode.com/nc/en/menu/about-hbm-ncode/newspress-room/ncode-press-releases-detail/datum////ncode-software-certified-by-gl-renewables-certification/?cHash=73439fc63d69ecbbc1c804f5c02f212e First structural integrity software to be certified for fatigue design of wind turbine structures nCode DesignLife™, has been certified by GL Renewables Certification (GL RC). nCode DesignLife is the first software for structural integrity to be GL RC certified for the design of cast and forged structural machinery components in wind turbines. 

See announcement issued by GL Renewables at EWEA 2012

nCode DesignLife is a powerful, off-the-shelf CAE-based fatigue tool, optimized for today’s large model sizes and realistic loading schedules. Its advanced fatigue solver enables wind turbine manufacturers to identify when and where failure could occur and design using complete loading duty cycles representing the full 20 year loading events experienced in service. DesignLife’s graphical, process-oriented interface provides a well-proven basis for determining fatigue and structural integrity throughout the components’ life. GL RC’s certification ensures a product will meet structural integrity requirements in accordance with the latest and applicable standards and guidelines. For nCode DesignLife, this certification assures customers that their component designs, such as wind turbine hubs and main shafts, can be analyzed in conformity with GL Renewables Certification’s Guideline for the Certification of Wind Turbines (2010) by choosing the right settings in the software. This includes fatigue analysis under complex real world loading conditions specified in GL RC’s guidelines or IEC 61400-1 international standard. The assessment was performed on standard product released in 2011 (nCode DesignLife 7) and no product modifications were required by GL Renewables Certification in order for nCode DesignLife to enable the software user to choose the correct options in order to meet the respective standard requirements. nCode DesignLife users will now find that the applicable methods have already been assessed and will not need to be justified in the certification process of their product. “Our goal for this third-party validation of nCode DesignLife is that it will result in faster time to market for OEMs and suppliers of wind turbines,” explained Steve Tudberry, Vice President HBM nCode. “Customers will now be able to spend less time on how calculations are performed and more time on the actual engineering decisions required.”  About GL Renewables Certification
GL Renewables Certification, part of the GL Group, is a leading certification body primarily focused on the certification of wind farms, wind turbines and their components. At the forefront of understanding in renewables technology, it is abreast of all the necessary standards and requirements and takes a harmonised approach in ensuring that these are met. Manufacturers, banks and insurers around the world rely on the state-of-the-art service provided by GL Renewables Certification. For more information, please visit www.gl-group.com/renewables ]]> nCode Press Releases Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0200 Agenda announced for the 2012 nCode User Group Meeting http://www.ncode.com/nc/en/menu/about-hbm-ncode/newspress-room/ncode-press-releases-detail/datum////ncode-designlife-7-is-desktop-engineering-editors-pick-of-the-week-12/?cHash=710094eaaec6d23e2796c0f6fa6c66fa May 1, 2012 nCode Press Releases Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:00:00 +0200 nCode DesignLife 8 selected as Desktop Engineering Editor's Pick of the Week http://www.ncode.com/nc/en/menu/about-hbm-ncode/newspress-room/ncode-press-releases-detail/datum////2012-ncode-user-group-meeting-novi-mi/?cHash=c52fd72a33eb4f607a00e8e6a5961085 February 23, 2012 here Read the Pick of the Week write-up here

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New solutions for Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue using nCode DesignLife]]> nCode Press Releases Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:48:00 +0100 nCode 8 now available http://www.ncode.com/nc/en/menu/about-hbm-ncode/newspress-room/ncode-press-releases-detail/datum////ncode-8-now-available/?cHash=9f02f5169509e7d5c241a2f63cc6801f Software release offers new technologies for physical test data and CAE durability analysis Southfield, MI USA – February 13, 2012. nCode, the leading brand of durability, test and analysis products offered by HBM, introduces significant new technologies for both physical test and CAE durability at version 8 release of its software suite. nCode 8 includes nCode GlyphWorks®, a graphical test data processing software and nCode DesignLife™, a leading solution for CAE fatigue analysis applications. Version 8 of nCode Automation™, a scalable environment for engineering test data storage, analysis and reporting is also now available. “We've seen energy costs and environmental pressures drive changes in many industries, especially in the automotive sector," stated Jon Aldred, Director of Product Management at HBM-nCode. “Increasing horsepower is being extracted from ever smaller engines, leading to a significant increase in operating temperatures in the combustion chamber and higher exhaust temperatures. This is pushing material properties to the extreme. Vehicle weight is being reduced by the use of lightweight materials and composites in more applications. This produces challenges in operating strength and manufacturing. We’re pleased to announce that nCode 8 provides new capabilities to help address these challenges for both physical test and CAE simulation.” Thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) is introduced with methods to estimate product life under combined cycling of high temperatures and mechanical loads. Creep damage can be calculated from both measured data and from finite element simulations. Methods to predict the fatigue of composite materials, such as short fibre polymers, commonly used for automotive components, are also now available. In addition, methods for assessing the durability of adhesive bonds in lightweight vehicle structures have been introduced. nCode 8 provides cost-effective tools that can be used to solve real-world design problems. Customers using nCode CDS™, a token based licensing system for the nCode desktop products, will automatically get access to the full range of new technologies. nCode GlyphWorks 8 provides many enhancements to maximize the amount of information extracted from measured data, including vehicle GPS data. Physical regions can be identified on displayed maps and data extracted whenever a vehicle passes through a region. This is especially useful for understanding the relative severity and damage contribution of various proving ground surfaces and extracting sections for correlation to actual usage data from customer vehicles. Other new features in GlyphWorks include an order tracking filter to better understand vibration characteristics of rotating machinery such as electric motors or generators. nCode Automation 8 has also been extended to do more with large amounts of  “real world” data generated by fleets of engineering test vehicles or SCADA data from a wind farm for example. Scheduled reports can be regularly run on collected data, and now includes triggers based on key performance indicators calculated from the data such as when an operating temperature or vibration level is outside the statistical norm.  Emails are then automatically sent, notifying the appropriate individuals of the information on which a decision can be based. nCode Automation provides an off-the-shelf software to explore and monitor a wide range of engineering data. These new capabilities available in nCode 8 are discussed in a series of free webinars.]]> nCode Press Releases Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:31:00 +0100 New release offers fatigue technologies for Composites, Adhesive Bonds... http://www.ncode.com/nc/en/menu/about-hbm-ncode/newspress-room/ncode-press-releases-detail/datum////ncode-designlife-8-now-available-4/?cHash=841931ea849e81379baa86d8bc5ab566 New release of nCode Designife 8 offers new fatigue technologies for Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue,... Southfield, MI USA – February 13, 2012. nCode, the leading brand of durability, test and analysis products offered by HBM, announced today the version 8 release of nCode DesignLife™, a leading solution for CAE fatigue analysis applications. Significant fatigue technologies introduced include thermo-mechanical fatigue, short fibre composite fatigue analysis, and adhesive bonds for vehicle structures, while also delivering substantial improvements in overall performance and calculation speed. nCode DesignLife uses stress and temperature results from industry-standard finite element software and provides CAE durability simulation to estimate component life in these extreme operating conditions. Implemented methods include Larson-Miller creep and Chaboche for combined creep and fatigue. Creep calculations can also be performed from time histories of stress without an FE model. The required materials data can be provided through a Materials Testing service available at their ISO9001 certified laboratory. Building upon previous projects with industry partners investigating available thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) methods, this commercial software implementation in nCode DesignLife 8 provides cost-effective tools that can be used to solve real-world design problems. Version 8 of nCode DesignLife also offers methods for predicting the fatigue of composite materials as a result of collaboration between HBM-nCode and e-Xstream engineering, provider of state-of-the-art material modeling platform, DIGIMAT. The initial focus of the DesignLife solution is in the area of engineering plastics, such as short fibre polymers, that are commonly used in the automotive industry. DIGIMAT determines the appropriate material parameters for a complete component, which can then be coupled with a finite element analysis. nCode DesignLife combines the calculated stresses together with specific fatigue properties to predict the fatigue lives of the whole component under loading conditions. Methods for assessing the durability of adhesive bonds in lightweight vehicle structures are also now available in nCode DesignLife version 8. A fracture mechanics-based method is used, requiring relatively minor modifications to a typical vehicle body finite element model. The implemented method provides a safety factor assessment of each joint by comparing the calculated maximum strain energy release rate to the threshold required for crack growth. The theoretical basis of the method was developed as part of a project conducted by the Volvo Group and the testing and software implementation was carried out as part of the “Bonded Car” collaborative research project, the partners including Jaguar Land Rover, Coventry University and Warwick University. The project was co-funded by the Collaborative Research and Development programme of the Technology Strategy Board, an executive non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom. Speed of analysis is significantly improved in DesignLife 8 and two processing cores can also be used as standard. This results in up to four times faster analysis of the base product over previous versions on multi-processor computers, with near linear speed-up with additional processing cores. These new capabilities available in nCode 8 will be discussed in a series of free webinars beginning February 23, 2012. Visit the Webinars page to register. ]]> nCode Press Releases Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:24:00 +0100 New methods for assessing the durability of adhesive bonds introduced in nCode DesignLife™ http://www.ncode.com/nc/en/menu/about-hbm-ncode/newspress-room/ncode-press-releases-detail/datum////new-methods-for-assessing-the-durability-of-adhesive-bonds-introduced-in-ncode-designlifeTM-1/?cHash=46b63846fb302abc5a0e3d6b85fa6694 Southfield, MI USA – February 2, 2012. nCode, the leading brand of durability, test and analysis... Southfield, MI USA – February 2, 2012. nCode, the leading brand of durability, test and analysis products offered by HBM, announced today that methods for assessing the durability of adhesive bonds in lightweight vehicle structures will be introduced in version 8 of nCode DesignLife™ available February 2012. Reducing the weight of vehicles is one of the most critical factors in improving energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. For example, studies often show a weight reduction of 10% from a vehicle can result in a 6-8% reduction in fuel consumption. Adhesive bonding is increasingly used in the development of lightweight vehicle bodies. In addition to improving structural rigidity, it provides a means of joining high strength steels, aluminum alloys and dissimilar materials, with good durability against fatigue compared to more traditional methods such as spot-welding and seam-welding. “Effective use of adhesive bonding in automotive vehicle bodies requires analytical methods for durability so that potential fatigue problems and unnecessary overdesign can be eliminated before the physical prototype stage,” said Dr. Peter Heyes, Principal Fatigue Specialist at HBM-nCode. “This new capability provides a means to help drive down the cost and weight of next generation vehicles by identifying which joints in the vehicle structure are most critically loaded up-front in the design process.” nCode DesignLife 8 uses a fracture mechanics-based method requiring relatively minor modifications to a typical vehicle body finite element model. The theoretical basis of the method was developed as part of a project conducted by the Volvo Group and the testing and software implementation was carried out as part of the “Bonded Car” collaborative research project, the partners being Jaguar Land Rover, Coventry University, Warwick University, Innoval Technology, Henrob and Stoke Golding Applied Research. The project was co-funded by the Collaborative Research and Development programme of the Technology Strategy Board. The Technology Strategy Board is an executive non-departmental public body, established by the United Kingdom government in 2007 and sponsored by the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. A paper on this implementation, “A fracture mechanics approach to durability calculations for adhesive joints” will be presented at the SAE 2012 World Congress being held in Detroit, MI USA, April 24-26, 2012. A free webinar demonstrating this new capability will be presented on Thursday, February 23, 2012. For more information, see Webinars. ]]> nCode Press Releases Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:11:00 +0100 ANSYS nCode DesignLife now available in ANSYS 14.0 Workbench™ http://www.ncode.com/nc/en/menu/about-hbm-ncode/newspress-room/ncode-press-releases-detail/datum////ansys-ncode-designlife-now-available-in-ansys-140-workbenchTM/?cHash=b48ce2e1a9c22f374e645f4464d22251 nCode, the leading brand of durability, test and analysis products offered by HBM, announce the... here. ANSYS 14.0 nCode DesignLife is based upon nCode DesignLife 7 and is now available for current customers to download on the customer portal. For new inquiries, please contact an ANSYS sales location or channel partner. ]]> nCode Press Releases Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:48:00 +0100 nCode GlyphWorks runner-up in CAE Innovation of the Year http://www.ncode.com/nc/en/menu/about-hbm-ncode/newspress-room/ncode-press-releases-detail/datum////ncode-glyphworks-runner-up-in-cae-innovation-of-the-year/?cHash=902119a294c596981068ecc03510abb8 Version 7 of the nCode GlyphWorks graphical test data processing software from HBM particularly... Read full article]]> nCode Press Releases Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:38:00 +0100 nCode and e-Xstream collaborate on solutions for fatigue of composite materials http://www.ncode.com/nc/en/menu/about-hbm-ncode/newspress-room/ncode-press-releases-detail/datum////ncode-and-e-xstream-collaborate-on-solutions-for-fatigue-of-composite-materials-2/?cHash=f40e1b21ed423075ddf2946ce7986d3d nCode, the leading brand of fatigue and durability software offered by HBM, announced today that... e-Xstream engineering, provider of state-of-the-art material modeling platform, DIGIMAT. “With the drive for reduced weight and increased fuel efficiency, the transportation sector is turning to lightweight materials such as polymers and composites. The challenge for automotive and aerospace manufacturers is to ensure the required longevity and durability under real operating conditions,” commented Steve Tudberry, Vice-President HBM-nCode software. “The partnership with e-Xstream brings together the global leaders in our respective fields to provide a seamless and robust solution for fatigue analysis of composites.” “The use of composites in the automotive and aerospace industries is booming.  This growth concerns a large mix of composites types, manufacturing processes and the associated applications, cost and performances.   Predicting the fatigue and durability of this large variety of composites is the challenge that HBM-nCode and e-Xstream are joining forces to address,” stated Roger A. Assaker, CEO of e-Xstream engineering. The fatigue of composites poses particular challenges for engineers because the properties of the constituent parts, polymer (resin) matrix and fibers, interact to determine the fatigue properties, which vary in each location and direction. The initial focus of the DesignLife solution is in the area of engineering plastics, such as short fiber polymers, which are commonly used in the automotive industry. DIGIMAT determines the appropriate material parameters for a complete component, which can then be coupled with a finite element analysis. nCode DesignLife combines the calculated stresses together with specific fatigue properties to predict the fatigue lives of the whole component under loading conditions. Further developments for additional types of composite are also planned. A free webinar discussing these new methods for fatigue of composites available in nCode DesignLife 8 will be presented to the public on November 16, 2011. Register here.]]> nCode Press Releases Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100 New solutions for Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue using nCode DesignLife http://www.ncode.com/nc/en/menu/about-hbm-ncode/newspress-room/ncode-press-releases-detail/datum////new-solutions-for-thermo-mechanical-fatigue-using-ncode-designlife-1/?cHash=d6120afd51199016df53d34ccf59bbd6 High temperature durability simulations employ new technology Webinars. 

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