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Dassault Inmotion - Wind Turbine Analysis Demonstration

ESI demonstrates conceptual grid design on wind turbine grid

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Wind/Energy

Dassault Inmotion Resources for Achieving Better Blade Design

Learn about the numerous resources available for achieving better blade design

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Dassault Inmotion Challenges of Wind Turbine Blade Design

At Dassault Systèmes our goal is to simulate any object in 3D and thus be recognized as a 3D company; we believe that 3D is a new medium, like sound and video; it’s an easy-to-understand international language

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Wind/Energy

Dassault Inmotion Resources for Achieving Better Blade Design(2)

  Composite materials are ideal for producing wind turbine blades Traditional design methods are manual and inefficient Best practices developed for the aerospace rotorcraft industry can be applied to wind turbine blades to enable a complete set of process oriented solutions to design, simulate , and manufacture wind turbine blades all on a single virtual platform For more information about CATIA Composites e-Seminar Serieshttp://www. plmv5.

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Compression platens and subpresses

 Dr. Don Adams discusses the use of compression platens (fixed and spherical seat) and subpresses to ensure reliable test frame operation.

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Autoclave

Resins for the Hot Zone, Part I: Polyimides

 As next-generation aerospace programs demand higher service temperatures in structural and hot section components, a variety of polyimides vie for program approval.

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Aerospace

Counseling patience

HPC editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan cautions patience in the wake of the Air France 447 incident.

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Adhesives

The rise of rapid manufacturing

An outgrowth of rapid prototyping, tool-free additive fabrication technologies have the potential to form small, limited-run composite parts directly from CAD data.

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BMI

SAMPE 2009 Product Showcase

Showgoers at the SAMPE 2009 Conference and Exhibiton in Baltimore, Md. found many suppliers undeterred by poor economic news. 

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NDI

JEC COMPOSITES 2009 Product Showcase

Despite the doleful state of the global economy, the turnout in Paris — exhibitors and visitors — proved surprisingly strong.

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Wind/Energy

Winds of change

It’s not hard, in this down economy, to get excited about the wind energy industry.

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