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Relational database forms the underlying software foundation and data integrity for all products
- Material database including data at temperatures for all material types: Isotropic Mil Handbook 5, Composite Mil Handbook 17, laminates, honeycomb core, foam
- Built-in, form based, search and filter
- Windows Access material database schema open for outside developers: direct SQL, API calls
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Graphical layup editor: cut, copy, and forward/reverse, before/after paste, stack templates, general block moves, etc. |

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Effective stiffnesses and allowables, general loadings, elevated temperatures and through-the-thickness temperature gradients |

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Graphical plot of failure envelopes |

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Graphical plot of ply-by-ply stresses and strains |

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Failure Criteria: max strain, max stress, Tsai-Hill, Tsai-Wu, Tsai-Hahn, Hoffman |

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Material Property HTML reports |

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50 different panel and beam concepts: i.e. integral blade, hat and Z shaped stiffened panels, honeycomb sandwich, isogrid, I beam, C channel |
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An analysis tool with most commonly performed structural analyses included and documented clearly |
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Extensive panel and beam failure analyses such as cylindrical panel buckling and cross section crippling |
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Complete margin-of-safety reporting for all analyses for limit and ultimate loads |
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Simultaneous optimization of panel/beam concept, material selection, layup, and cross section dimensions, including linking of section variables |
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Stiffness, frequency, deformation, and midspan displacement analysis and optimization |
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Free Body Diagram GUI with general edge loading and/or boundary conditions. Transverse pressure loadings |
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Integrated graphical display of the optimum cross design, to-scale, in VRML |
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Full temperature-dependency supported including through-the-thickness temperature gradients for panels |
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Composite loaded bolt holes |
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PDF documentation of equations and analysis methods |
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Coupling to FEM: Support for MSC/NASTRAN, I-DEAS, and FEMAP solvers and modelers, unlimited grids, elements, loadcases, etc. |
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A documentation tool which not only sizes structures and makes detailed weight statements, but documents entire vehicle detailed stress in archiveable, easily readable, and easily transmittable HTML documents |
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Statistical loading algorithms for determining "design-to" internal loads from the FEA results |
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Advanced Statistical Optimization: multiple robust design solutions, component surface linking |
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User defined analysis plug-ins (legacy codes) written in Fortran, C, or C++ programming languages |
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Integrated graphical display of the FEM and FEA computed loads, and all HyperSizer results on the FEM such as unit weights, failure modes, controlling loadcases |
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Entire System Analysis and Optimization |
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Entire System Weight Predictions |
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Entire System Design Reports |
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Entire System Stress reports |
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