An examination of coupled predictive simulations of thermoforming processes and drop-impact loading in package design. Balakrishna Haridas and Clinton A. Haynes Thermoformed packaging is widely used ...

Machine Design distills the cutting-edge landscape of advanced manufacturing through the eyes of multidisciplinary engineers, covering technical insights on the foundational and emerging principles of ...

You expect analysis news from FEA software developers, but how about from Microsoft? It's true, says Ted Pawela, an application engineer with MSC.Software, Santa Ana, Calif. (mscsoftware.com). "By ...

Continuous Composites, which recently secured multi-million-dollar funding from the US Air Force to advance the development of high-performance materials using its CF3D® technology, has also been ...

All the vendors of finite element analysis (FEA) software would agree that choosing a particular FEA package is a major decision for an engineering department. Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen Inc., now ...

Danfoss Power Solutions (Ames, Iowa, U.S.) wanted to reduce cost and lead time challenges with a machined aluminum bracket by redesigning it to use carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) made with its ...