News

MSC releases Marc 2017 for nonlinear modelling

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 18, 2017

Marc 2017 has been expanded to incorporating adaptive meshing, material modeling, and contact capabilities to increase productivity and accuracy for…

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3D Printing

Aerospace’s adoption of 3D printed parts reaches new level

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 18, 2017

A rare view of 3D printed components, ready to be fitted to an Airbus A350 XWB An announcement by Airbus…

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News

WATCH // NASA’s R&D back catalogue

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 21, 2017

https://giphy.com/embed/54yzeA4OkvyLe Say goodbye to many, many, many, many hours of your life – once you’ve clicked the link, you’ve signed…

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News

Renishaw and Aeromet to optimise high-performance alloy for AM

Posted by Al Dean - August 14, 2017

Renishaw and Aeromet International (a specialist in the casting field) have signed an agreement to add Aeromet’s A20X aluminium alloy…

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News

Giant Rolls Royce turbofan engine design gets £2M grant for topology optimisation

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 21, 2017

The next generation of Rolls Royce UltraFan engine architecture has received a £1.998M grant from the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI)…

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News

GKN launches Additive division as ‘signal of intent’ + Partners with GE Additive

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 16, 2017

Global aerospace and automotive engineering group GKN has pulled its global 3D printing activity together into one new brand: GKN…

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News

Laminates and composites FEA analysis targeted by MSC Nastran 2018

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 20, 2017

Simulating pre-stressing and fan blade out of a jet engine in Nastran 2018 Nastran 2018.0 will bring ‘new assembly modeling…

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Profiles

Boom Supersonic: Redesigning Supersonic Commercial Flight

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 21, 2017

How Boom Aerospace is vying to return supersonic commercial flight to the skies

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News

Emirates looking to SLS for on-board aircraft parts

Posted by Al Dean - November 28, 2017

For many years now, we’ve been told of how aircraft manufacturers are using 3D printing technology but it’s not often…

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News

Composites abilities take centre stage in MSC Apex ‘Harris Hawk’

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 28, 2018

MSC Apex model of a composite layup airplane structure MSC Apex’s latest release, Harris Hawk, is targeting a unique composite…

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