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News Release from: Algor | Subject: Accupak software
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 28 July 2000
Easier method of modelling mechanisms
and joints
Algor, Inc has announced enhancements to its pioneering Mechanical Event Simulation (MES) software, providing new ways to impose motion during analysis of mechanisms and joints.
Algor, Inc has announced enhancements to its pioneering Mechanical Event Simulation (MES) software, providing new ways to impose motion during analysis of mechanisms and joints New capabilities that provide engineers with the freedom to rotate actuator elements and apply stop-and-start motion to FEA models improve the versatility of Algor's MES
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 28 Jul 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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Algor introduced actuator elements to MES earlier this year and bolsters them with an improved version that allows the engineer to set rotational constraints.
Through the use of actuator elements, prescribed rotations and prescribed displacements, Algor's Accupak/MES and Accupak/VE analysis packages allow engineers to simulate more realistic and functional mechanisms and joints.
"Engineers now can specify axial and planar rotational constraints for actuator elements in their assemblies and mechanisms," said Michael L.
Bussler, president of Pittsburgh-based Algor.
"When setting up an MES, the engineer can ensure that both ends of an actuator rotate in unison and that they retain their orientation relative to each other throughout the simulation." When Algor introduced actuator elements to MES, the technology allowed engineers for the first time to specify contraction and extension values over time to drive motion between connected parts of an assembly.
The new rotational capability provides more freedom in modeling mechanical situations.
Also contributing to Algor's increasingly robust MES software, prescribed rotation and prescribed displacement allow engineers to impose motion intermittently when setting up an MES.
These enhancements mean motion and displacement can be applied and removed several times throughout the course of an analysis, as in the application and release of a brake pedal.
The new features come with Algor's Accupak/MES and Accupak/VE software, which works with Windows NT/95/98/2000.
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