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businesses as well as government and education institutions to name a few. The optimum approach to effectively engage and service our rapidly growing customer base locally is through our extended eco-system of exclusively selected and qualified business partners. Today, MSC.Software has an extensive network of business partners with close to 100 engineers, consultants and sales professionals dedicated to service our customers in Asia Pacific. These are a wonderful diverse mix of new and old channel partners across Asia Pacific, matching the diversity of the countries, culture as well as specific requirements. Figure 2: Case Study for Durability Life Assessment Methodology
As the year progresses, we will feature real world cases and success stories from our channel partners that will surely be of great interest to our valued customers... stay tuned.
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Figure 3: Results for integrated durability life assessment
so-called t16 file, which can be read by MSC SimXpert, Mentat or Patran to extract both the geometry of the formed part as well as the residual stresses and strains. The integrated product design process for a durability life assessment of a torque converter is shown in Figure 2. This figure is extracted from Reference 1, where the full presentation of this study can be found. The durability of a torque converter is highly dependent on the residual stresses introduced during stamping of the parts, and during riveting of the parts to assemble the final product. During the Forming process, stresses and thickness changes are introduced. These residual stresses must be taken into account during simulation of the Pressure cycling that occurs while operating the torque converter. The resulting stresses can then be entered into a calculation of the Durability
assessment. The results of this process are shown in Figure 3. In summary, the capability now exists to seamlessly integrate manufacturing process simulation, performed with Simufact. forming and Simufact.welding, into the overall product design process. For more details on Simufact.forming, visit www.simufact-americas.com.
References 1. Design Robustness and Process Capability using 6 Sigma and Simufact.forming Dr. Kunding Wang Tagungsband 12. Roundtable “Simulation in der Massivumformung”, Bamber 2010 Page 209-220 Simufact engineering gmbh, Hamburg 2010 ISBN 978-9813814-0-5
Papers were folded neatly, others were crumpled up, some were written in black ink, and others in unorthodox purple. Each submission had a story; each submission had a dream, some were hopeful, and others were simply rolling the dice, but there they lay. A bowl full of papers, an ocean of names, numbers, hope, and emails. One name emerged from the sea of submissions, Venkata Naga Poornim! As an industry leader and innovator, MSC.Software wanted to offer more to our customers at industry related tradeshows. We all have walked away from tradeshows with pens, notepads, etc. We wanted to offer more... what did we give away? Hope! This year, MSC.Software held a raffle for an iPad. Entries were submitted at select tradeshows in which MSC.Software was present. Several names were submitted, but the name that emerged was Venkata Naga Poornim! Congratulations to Venkata and thank you to all who submitted an entry. This New Year will present new opportunities. Look for more giveaways at future MSC Events. To view our events calendar, please visit http://events.mscsoftware.com.
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