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News Release from: GRM Consulting | Subject: Vanderplaats Research and Development Software
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 24 September 2004
Optimisation enhances product
development
Warwickshire-based engineering design consultancy GRM Consulting has become the sole UK distributor of Vanderplaats Research and Development Software.
Warwickshire-based engineering design consultancy GRM Consulting has become the sole UK distributor of Vanderplaats Research and Development Software The software is a leading edge optimisation development tool, used widely in the US automotive industry
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 3 Dec 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Used on its own it can help engineers to enhance their product development processes, even if they have no specialist knowledge of optimisation technology.
Combined with OptiAssist, a new program developed by GRM Consulting, setting up of the optimisation project can be achieved in a matter of minutes.
During the spring and summer, GRM has been using Vanderplaats' finite element (FE) analysis and optimisation program Genesis, combined with OptiAssist, to help Brunel University's Formula Student team to develop the monocoque for their racing car.
According to GRM Consulting Director Martin Gambling: "This project has helped us to refine our new program and our method".
"We were able to help the students to work out the optimum lay-up of the carbon fibres for the monocoque design, to ensure that it retained maximum strength using minimum weight".
"The project had a tight timescale, but with our system and our expertise in the automotive sector, it is possible to achieve optimum designs within a short development cycle".
The resulting driver's cockpit not only offered the driver the requisite level of strength and safety, but also drew favourable comment from the judges, and helped the vehicle to become one of only eight design finalists, out of a field of 67 entrants.
GRM believes that its ability to optimise designs and help manufacturers to reduce development times offers significant benefits to vehicle manufacturers.
Gambling said: "The Formula Student project shows what can be achieved using our development tool".
"A number of Formula 1 teams also believe that this new tool can offer very real benefits, and we are talking with these now".
"Mainstream manufacturers are also taking a serious look at the system".
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