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Altair license manager installs MDS composites software

27 Mar '14

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The MDS-UQ module is a nonintrusive multiscale solver with stochastic forward and inverse capabilities. MDS-MP couples many physical processes at multiple scales. These can include oxygen and/or moisture diffusion along with reaction and deformation.

Finally, MDS-FT uses the two-scale asymptotichomogenization approach for time and reduced order homogenization for space. Both can be effectively applied to any material architecture and any constitutive equations of microphases. The APA will include both versions of the software.

Available for the past 13 years, Altair’s innovative unit-based licensing system allows HyperWorks users customizable access to a growing portfolio of applications, optimizing their return on investment (ROI) by making more than 20 in-house-developed applications available by use of a single pool of recyclable HyperWorks units (HWUs).

Altair also has offered the opportunity for third-party companies to run their own applications under this unit-based system, a collaboration now known as the Altair Partner Alliance. The overall flexibility of these HWUs empowers users via access to the largest, most complete suite of CAE applications available.

The ROI increases for users each time a new application is added to the offering, since any of the partner programs can be accessed using the same leased HWUs they are already using to run HyperWorks. This makes more than 50 additional applications available at no incremental cost or long-term commitment.

About Multiscale Design Systems, Inc.

MDS, LLC was founded in 2008 by Prof. Fish and associates. The main software product, Multiscale Design System (MDS), is based on more than 30 years of his pioneering research in multiscale science and engineering.

Prof. Fish, the Carleton Chaired Professor at Columbia University, is an author of more than 170 journal articles on various aspects of multiscale science and engineering and several books, including the first multiscale textbook, entitled “Practical Multiscaling,” published by Wiley in 2013.

Since its inception in 2008, MDS, LLC has won numerous SBIR/STTR Phase I and Phase II awards related to environmental degradation of high temperature polymer and ceramic matrix composites subjected to thermal oxidation, fatigue, moisture ingression and mechanical loading.

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