The ADINA System
is used widely in many fields of application, including the automotive, aerospace,
manufacturing, nuclear, and biomedical industries, civil engineering applications,
and research.
Among the many reasons why the ADINA System is used, three key aspects stand
out strongly - Reliability, Uniqueness, and Efficiency.
Reliability
ADINA is often selected for applications where reliability is of critical importance. The
failure of the design may result in the loss of lives.
A case in point is the use of ADINA for the seismic analysis for retroactive
strengthening of six toll bridges in California, including the famous San
Francisco Bay Bridge. After the 1989 earthquake in the Bay Area, the California
Governor's office commissioned that these bridges are to be analysed with
state-of-the-art tools and ADINA was selected. To view the
page for this application,
click here.
Uniqueness
The uniqueness of the ADINA System is best described in the
article of Design News about the design of ACE Controls' new Magnum
shock absorber.
We quote (emphasis ours):
To locate the best program, Ferkany (of ACE Controls) contacted 11 different
FEA software manufacturers and gave them each a test: If 800 pounds-force
hit the shock absorber at four feet per second, what would the deceleration
be? From empirical data, Ferkany already knew the answer. What surprised
him, though, was that most existing FEA manufacturers couldn't - or didn't
want to - solve it.
One did, however. Adina R&D Inc. replied with an answer approximately
two-and-a-half months after Ferkany's initial query. "They gave me back the
exact curve that we had already gotten from our lab," Ferkany recalls. "So I
told them we wanted their software."
Efficiency
While car crash analyses have been carried out with success, a crush analysis
is much more difficult to achieve. The reasons for this greater difficulty
lie in that crush analysis requires a slow-speed, almost static solution. To
carry out such a solution, the program must have great robustness and efficiency
in the solution algorithm.
Effective solutions of crush analyses have been obtained using
ADINA with the very efficient static/implicit dynamic capabilities. The
crush analysis of the Ford Windstar is presented
in this section.
ADINA Application Showcase
All the above analyses (except artificial lung) are also presented in the
ADINA Animation CD which you can request for free.
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