Tips & Tricks

How to automatically fill the Multi-Hosts options in PAM-STAMP GUI?

This tips is to help users to have the multi-hosts automatically filled in a several stages project when they want to start a calculation in PAM-STAMP GUI.

How to run a multi-stages project on Windows with a Single host in PAM-STAMP GUI?

This tip is to help users to run a calculation by using only one automatic host, even if it is a multi-stage project.

How to Copy/Paste images from PAM-STAMP GUI ?

Shortcuts key to copy/paste images quickly from PAM-STAMP GUI into a presentation.

How to create your own toolbar in PAM-STAMP?

This tutorial is to help users to create their own custom toolbar, and then to shows how to share it with others.

How to fix grey selection window in PAM-STAMP GUI ?

Using default setup of AERO themes in Windows 7 and Vista creates problems for selection by window in PAM-STAMP GUI. There are instructions how to setup your Windows to avoid that problem.

Process optimization: the future of numerical simulation software

Optimization is becoming a very popular word. However, what does it mean and what does it involve? The goal of this e-tip is to give some keys about optimization concepts and its use in process optimization. In a first stage, we will describe the type of optimization problems that could be solved and in a second stage, the principles and algorithms will be presented. Finally, advantages and drawbacks of the different methods and algorithms will be addressed, with respect to the different types of optimization problems which can be solved.

Casting simulation: from prototype to performance

Passenger safety in cars, planes and other transportation vehicles is an ethical obligation, a legal issue and a technological challenge. Simulation is a well implemented tool in order to test the behaviour of a car body during crash. The models, including rapid deformation and rupture, are sophisticated and reliable. Currently, most properties used in such simulations correspond to homogenous and defect free materials. However, cars are manufactured before being crashed. And manufacturing routes such as casting, but also stamping, forging or welding, do not provide defect free and homogeneous materials.

Parallel processing

“To pull a bigger wagon, it is easier to add more horses than to grow a gigantic horse.” This paraphrased quotation nicely expresses the basic concept of parallel processing. The speed of sequential computers has been doubling every eighteen months, according to Moore’s law. However, at any given time, that speed is limited by the state of the art in integrated circuit design and manufacturing. To circumvent that limitation, it is possible to split a given computationally intensive task among multiple processors working simultaneously.

Critical issues in modelling investment casting

Reduce part development lead-times by a better knowledge of process and an early confi rmation of metallurgical capabilities is one of the main topics for investment casting technology. Numerical simulation is one of the major tools which can be used to face this goal. This e-tip illustrates a simulation methodology usable to optimize a casting design in an effi cient and rapid way.

FLEXlm protection file system

ESI group needs to license, manage and track a variety of licensing options, platform and product dependencies. FLEXlm is one of the only software that is up to this task. A simple, shrinkwrapped license management product would not be powerful and flexible enough to license all ESI products.