The maritime engineering environment is unforgiving; it tests our skills of innovation and endurance with corrosive saltwater, unpredictable weather, and the relentless forces of nature. A Squared Engineering is one company tackling some of the engineering industry’s most complex, toughest challenges head-on by fusing a wealth of combined engineering knowledge in traditional offshore energy, renewables and shipbuilding.
In the past, A Squared Engineering used a more traditional tool for FEA modelling and analysis, but as the company grew, outdated geometry and mesh handling, limited material models, element types, load types, and nonlinear analysis capabilities in legacy tools were preventing it from providing analyses as quickly and efficiently as it would like.
The company required more advanced FEA with powerful modelling and pre-processing tools, integrated linear, nonlinear, and fatigue analysis solutions, a deep library of material models, loads, and element types, and the high-performance computing necessary to dramatically reduce analysis times.
“moving to MSC Apex and the transformation… was like going from a skateboard to a Ferrari!”
By enhancing their structural analysis capability with MSC Apex, a contemporary FEA platform, they’ve seen a rapid gain in pre-processing capabilities and greatly enhanced analysis capability. With a tangible reduction in the time required to analyse structures, the company saves a significant time and resource, with services offered at more competitive rates to clients.
In this Hexagon case study A Squared talk about their work in the offshore and marine industries, and how MSC Apex has revolutionized their business. As well as supplying FEA software, A Squared took advantage of Evotech CAE’s on-demand training in FEA, MSC Apex and MSC Nastran to allow their structural engineers to hit the ground running.
If you’d like to learn more about A Squared, and the benefits that MSC Apex has given them, you can read the full case study here.
