Student Resources

1491. Dynamics Testing and Analysis Workshop

      Dynamics Testing & Analysis Workshop - It Vibrates: What Now? Most structures in an operating environment will be subject to dynamic loads. Often this leads to unwanted vibration. Of course, in a perfect world engineers would have anticipated such issues and designed the product accordingly. In the real world, we often have to resolve vibration issues retrospectively. Thus, the purpose of this workshop was to show a range of analysis and testing techniques which can achieve in-situ vibration reduction. The workshop was illustrated with examples from the Aerospace, Civil, Process and Automotive industries and was of interest to all engineers who encounter vibration response in pre-production...more

1492. What is Sensitivity Analysis?

      This article is from a series of NAFEMS “What is”Guidance leaflets, which are available as free downloads at nafems.org. Other topics in the series include “What is Verification & Validation”, “What is Implicit and Explicit Finite Element Simulation”, “What is SQEP - Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel” and “What is Simulation Data Management”....more

1493. What's in a Cookie? Simulation in the Food & Drink Industry

      What’s in a Cookie? 6-minute read Sinothile Baloyi - June 30th 2023 Your favourite packaged cookie. What is it, actually? Let’s just focus on the basic ingredients of the kind of cookie you might bake yourself. So, probably wheat flour, sugar, baking powder, maybe chocolate, butter, and flavourings. Now let’s think about the physical properties of each ingredient, the things that your cookie is before it’s a cookie: Flour - powder Sugar- granular Chocolate - colloid composed of cocoa, fat and sometimes sugar Butter – water in oil emulsion Baking powder – compound powder What about your favourite sauce, ketchup, Brown sauce (Yes, rest of the world outside the UK, that’s what it’s...more

1494. "Diffusion of Innovation” Applied to Modeling & Simulation – What can we Learn from Social Science Research and Marketing?

      This presentation was made at the 2019 NAFEMS World Congress in Quebec Canada Resource Abstract In many industries and companies, Modeling and Simulation has been used successfully for important decisions and even some work process changes. However, in many places the use is quite “shallow” and limited to a small number of highly capable and motivated individuals. It has not become “mainstream” outside of few industries such as Automotive, Aerospace and a few others. This is classic case of an innovation being embraced by “early adopters”, but not by the so-called “early majority” and “late majority” (the vast majority of our employees). In the presentation I will show the analogy to other...more

1495. Transforming the CAE Result Sharing Process for Automotive Fuel Systems with Automation and 3D Digital Reports

      Abstract The competition for the design and manufacturing of the best-in-class automotive products is more intense than ever due to technological advances and increased customer expectations. As a result, companies across the automotive industry are looking for innovations to improve their product design and manufacturing cycle time, cost and quality, and CAE simulation innovations and their effective implementations have long been proven to be a key competitive advantage. CAE organizations are also facing pressure to become more competitive and efficient. CAE Management and technical experts must constantly address an ever-growing demand to deliver more analytical product design and manufacturing...more

1496. Seismic Certification of BESS Using Response Spectrum Analysis

      T​hese slides were presented at the NAFEMS Americas Conference 2024. The conference was held in Lousville, KY, on 9–11 July 2024....more

1497. Beyond Traditional V&V – Achieving Credibility of Modelling and Simulation

      Beyond Traditional V&V – Achieving Credibility of Modelling and Simulation T​hursday, 13th November 2025 Do you want to understand how to undertake Verification and Validation (V&V) to meet today’s needs and tomorrow’s challenges? As we simulate more complex problems across more application domains then we need to develop the way in which we establish the credibility of those simulations for own organisation, our partners and external stakeholders. Join us at our upcoming event where industry leaders will explore what the latest trends in simulation such as generative design, democratization and a host of others will mean for V&V. Don't miss out on this opportunity to explore new strategies,...more

1498. Q&A Session

      Q&A Session Questions 1. What would be the first action organisations should take when considering a strategy for Engineering Simulation? First step is identifying and gathering your Stakeholders and agreeing your Goals for Simulation. Next step is to identify your detail requirements. i.e. What is the ‘to-do’ list you need Simulation to be able to address. 2. What is the most important action organisations should take to improve their Engineering Simulation Capability? Having identified your goals and requirements the most important action is to identify your current position regarding your processes, methods, tools, models etc… Where are the gaps? 3. What are some of the common issues...more

1499. Introduction to Practical CFD

      What are the differences between various differencing and meshing schemes? What are the basics of turbulence, heat transfer, and FSI modelling? What are errors and uncertainties in CFD and how do you reduce them? Get the answers to these questions and more with this industry-leading, code-independent e-learning course. Introduction to Practical CFD N​ew Revised Course for 2025 This course offers attendees fundamental knowledge on using CFD in real-life engineering applications. Adopting a straightforward and moderately technical approach, it outlines the CFD process and explains the advantages and challenges of employing CFD analysis in the simulation of complex flow phenomena, as well as...more

1500. Aircraft Survivability Modeling and Simulation Framework (AirSurF)

      This presentation was made at the NAFEMS Americas Seminar "Model-Based Engineering: What is it & How Will It Impact Engineering Simulation" held on the 1st of October 2019 in Columbus Ohio Resource Abstract The original aircraft survivability analysis, hit calculations, has been around since the beginning of aircraft survivability. Described in the renowned Aircraft Survivability Bible, The Fundamentals of Aircraft Combat Survivability Analysis and Design by Robert E. Ball, essentially, slow, low flying, and easy to detect aircraft will have poor survivability. Also, Ball describes as hits on the aircraft increases, the aircraft survivability greatly decreases as seen in Figure 1. Two components...more

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