Applied Damage Tolerance

All aircraft and aerospace parts, including pressurized vessels, must have adequate life (i.e. safe-life) during their service usage. This class will teach engineers and students how to estimate the life of fracture critical parts when they are exposed to varying load environments. Numerous example problems related to durability and damage tolerance of high risk parts are included in the class curriculum.

This is an intermediate level course in durability and damage tolerance with emphasis in applications.

FEMAP 101:  Introduction to Femap

Learn how to run Femap with NX Nastran to solve engineering problems. Detailed instruction is given on the Femap Pre/Post environment with an emphasis on good FEA modeling practices. NX Nastran is the solver used in the course and applicable modeling techniques are covered.

The course is given in a lecture plus lab work format.

FEMAP 102:  Femap for Patran Users

The objective of this course is to introduce experienced FEA and Patran users to the Femap Pre & Post processor environment. In this class, users of other FEA pre & post software will learn how to best use the Femap. Topics include: the Femap user interface, how to create and edit geometry, meshing essentials and how to leverage the Femap Meshing Toolbox, plus much more.

This is an accelerated class, only recommended for those with previous FEA  and Patran experience.

FEMAP 201:  Femap Advanced Modeling Techniques

Femap 201 provides an in-depth examination of some of the more advanced features of Femap.

Topics covered in this class include geometry repair & preparation, mapped meshing, hex meshing, using data surfaces for complex loading and boundary conditions, advanced grouping operations, operations on results, and overview of the API.

FEMAP 301:  Femap API Development

This course provides instruction in the use of the FEMAP API to develop custom routines and applications. Topics covered will include the Visual Basic programming language, working with the FEMAP code editor, FEMAP application and entity objects, debugging FEMAP API code, custom user interfaces, COM/OLE development and programming for FEMAP using Microsoft Excel.