CONTACTS

• William VanFossen, (937) 255-8455
• Ronald Hinrichsen, (937) 255-5137

OVERVIEW

• Aging aircraft issues and concerns have prompted personnel from the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to initiate an evaluation of a new commercial software package, FE-SAFE, from Safe Technology, Ltd.
• The FE-SAFE software suite provides state-of-the-art fatigue analysis features designed to interface with many leading FEA products including ABAQUS, ANSYS, I-DEAS, Pro/Engineer, Pro/Mechanica, and Hypermesh.
• Components for CATIA and NASTRAN are currently under development and are scheduled to be released later this year.
• We invite ASC MSRC users to examine the software and provide feedback.
• The evaluation period will run through January, 2001.

TRAINING

• A 2-day training event at the ASC MSRC training facility has been scheduled for November 30-December 1, 2000.
• A total of 14 seats will be made available for participants from outside of the sponsor organization.
• Registration information will soon be added to the ASC MSRC Training Schedule Page.

USAGE NOTES

• Users must have an account on one of the SGI machines at the ASC MSRC.

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DOCUMENTATION

• A nice Introduction to FE-SAFE
• User Notes and a Theory Manual are available in the installation directory at the ASC MSRC.

DEVELOPER

• Safe Technology's website features an area devoted to their FE-SAFE product.