Posted on 11/15/2018 Source: Design News By: Rob Spiegel Sierra Nevada engineers used Collier Research software for sizing optimization of …
Product Design & Development – Photos of the Day: Designing Bell Helicopter’s Next Gen Tiltrotor Fuselage
Posted on 12/16/2015 Source: Product Design & Development Courtesy Collier Research When announcing the completion of the Bell V-280 …
Composites World – Hybrid Analysis: Making the Most of FEA by Leveraging Traditional Analysis
Posted on 10/30/2015 Source: CompositesWorld CW guest columinst Collin Petersen (Janicki Industries, Sedro-Woolley, WA, US) suggests the use of more …
Composites World – Safe cycling: Keys to composite bike design integrity
Posted on 9/1/2018 Source (excerpt from full article): Composites World By: Donna Dawson Bike design: No simple matter This technical …
Net Composites – HyperSizer Aids Design of Dream Chaser Spacecraft
Posted on 5/15/2018 Source: Net Composites With the go-ahead from NASA for a first mission to the International Space Station …
Digital Engineering – NASA’s Latest Mission: Optimize Manufacturing of Composites
Posted on 12/20/2017 Source: Digital Engineering By: Beth Stackpole As composites take hold across the aviation industry as a way …
Aviation Week – NASA Project Seeks Faster Certification of Composites
Posted on 11/10/2017 Source: Aviation Week By: Graham Warwick Public-private partnership works to make certification of composite structures less costly …
Aerospace America – HyperSizing the Largest Aircraft
Posted on 10/31/2017 Source: Aerospace America By: Henry Canaday The designers of Stratolaunch faced a daunting task six years ago …
Composites World – Software has a Critical Role in Certification of Composite Designs for Aerospace
Posted on 8/30/2017 Source: Composites World Despite the many advantages that come with using composites materials in aerospace applications, designing …
Digital Engineering – Composite Customization
Posted on 6/5/2017 Source: Digital Engineering Composites are reaching a new level of celebrity in the materials world. As research …
Industrial Equipment News – Where NASA Sends Engineers for Composite Design Software Training
Posted on 5/3/2017 Source: Industrial Equipment News If they are at Langley Research Center, there is a good chance they …
Engineering.com – How to Design the Lightest Possible Bike – And Still Sleep at Night
Posted on 3/9/2017 Source: Engineering.com Fashion models don’t worry about their weight as much as professional cyclists. In the elite …
Graphic Speak – Equipping Space-Age Road Warriors
Posted on 2/28/2017 Source: Graphic Speak Using HyperSizer Express to sculpt the bike of the future with composites. Cycling is one …
Collier Research – Lessons from Cyclitech: Designing Lightweight Bikes is a Fine Art and Composites Design Software Provides New Sculpting Tools
Posted on 1/17/2017 HyperSizer Express puts powerful, user-friendly optimization tool in the hands of innovators in the bicycle industry—and beyond …
Press Release – Collier Research Becomes a Member of NASA’s Advanced Composites Consortium
Posted on 1/5/2017 Design optimization software company joins a team of aerospace experts focused on reducing aircraft development and certification …
Automotive Design and Production – Software for Lightweighting Composite Parts
Posted on 10/4/2016 Source: Automotive Design & Production, Lawrence S. Gould , Contributing Editor Although this software has its genesis …
Machine Design – Express Software Simulates Aerospace-Grade Composite Parts
Posted on 4/7/2016 Source: Leah Scully | Machine Design Collier Research has released an Express version of its Hypersizer finite-element-analysis …
Composites World – New Product Announcements
Composites design optimization software updated Posted on 3/29/2016 Source: CompositesWorld Collier Research Corp. has introduced the newest version of its …
Desktop Engineering – Editor’s Pick: HyperSizer Express
Posted on 3/30/2016 Source: Desktop Engineering Anthony J. Lockwood in Editor’s Pick of the Week Dear Desktop Engineering Reader: HyperSizer may sound …
Press Release – Collier Research Releases HyperSizer Express
Posted 3/8/2016 Source: TenLinks Manufacturers in an ever-widening array of industries are discovering the versatility of composites for strong, …
Product Design & Development – From Liftoff to Splashdown, HyperSizer Goes Deep Inside the Orion Crew Module Heat Shield
Posted on 10/21/2014 Source: Product Design & Development Protected by the shell of its huge launch-rocket during blastoff, NASA’s …
Windpower Engineering – Hypersizer Takes 23% Weight Off NASA Heat Shield. What Could It Do for a Turbine Blade?
Posted 10/13/2014 Source: Windpower Engineering Paul Dvorak At the recent 2014 Composites and Advanced Materials Expo (CAMX) (previously SAMPE), Collier …
Machine Design – Software Lets Spacecraft Carry Heavier Loads
Posted on 7/9/2013 Source: Machine Design Researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., are developing a Common Bus …
Digital Engineering – Simulating Composites: 6 Tips for New Users
Posted on 10/1/2015 Source: Digital Engineering If you’ve ever doubted that people generally like helping other people, just ask engineers …
NASA – NASA Orion
Posted on 3/1/2015 Source: NASA Orion The Orion spacecraft enables NASA to make the next giant leap in deep space …
Aerospace Manufacturing and Design – Software Helps Take Weight Off NASA’s Orion Crew Vehicle
Posted on 10/6/2014 Source: Aerospace Manufacturing and Design Collier Research Corp.’s, James Ainsworth, who will present at CAMX, inspects a …
Digital Engineering – Lightweight Material Champions
Posted on 10/1/2014 Source: Digital Engineering In February, President Obama announced the new Lightweight & Modern Metals Manufacturing Innovation Institute …
Composites World – Simulation Saves
Posted on 9/1/2014 Source: Composites World A look inside the increasingly well-equipped virtual toolbox for composite design, analysis, and manufacturing. …
NASA Tech Briefs – NASA Uses Analysis Software to Assess Orion Crew Module Heat Shield
Posted on 9/1/2014 Source: NASA Tech Briefs Protected by the shell of its huge launch rocket during blastoff, NASA’s Orion …
NASA – The NESC Proposes an Alternate Orion Heat Shield Carrier Structural Design
Posted on 2/3/2014 Source: NASA With the aim of carrying astronauts well beyond near Earth orbit to rendezvous with asteroids, …
Digital Engineering – Optimization of Sophisticated Materials Made Simpler
Posted on 12/1/2013 Source: Digital Engineering HyperSizer V7 from Collier Research has been fundamentally reconfigured for ease of use by …
Mechanical Engineering – Composite Analysis
Posted on 12/1/2013 Source: Mechanical Engineering HyperSizer version 6.4.5 composite structural analysis and optimization software now requires less user input …
Product Design & Development – Leaner Budgets Boost Innovation in Small Satellite Design
Posted on 10/7/2013 Source: Product Design & Development Which is it—a lander, an orbiter, or a rover? In the NASA …
Aerospace Manufacturing – Thinking Outside The Wing Box
Posted on 10/1/2013 Source: Aerospace Manufacturing According to Collier Research Corporation’s president, Craig Collier, robust optimisation of airframe structures is …
Advanced Materials & Processes – Optimizing Airframe Design Requires Sophisticated Analysis
Posted on 10/1/2013 Source: Advanced Materials & Processes As aerospace fuel-efficiency demands become increasingly stringent, weight reduction is of paramount …
Digital Engineering – Composites Optimizer Self-Configures to Loading Environment
Posted on 7/3/2013 Source: Digital Engineering Collier Research Corp. (Hampton, VA) says that its newly released HyperSizer version 6.4.5 composite …
Digital Engineering – HyperSizer v6.4.5 Shipped for Composites
Posted on 7/3/2013 Source: Digital Engineering Collier Research’s newly released Version 6.4.5 of HyperSizer composite structural analysis and optimization software …
Composites World – Optimization Software Improves Small Satellite Design
Posted on 6/4/2013 Source: Composites World Collier Research Corp.’s HyperSizer, other CAD platforms help bring small, low-cost, modular, off-the-shelf commercial …
Aerospace Manufacturing and Design – Leaner Budgets Boost Innovation in Small Satellite Design
Posted on 3/7/2013 Source: Aerospace Manufacturing and Design NASA Ames uses HyperSizer software to optimize the first modular Common Bus …
Aerospace Engineering – Addressing Limitations of Composite/Metallic Airframe Structure Optimization
Posted on 3/6/2013 Source: Aerospace Engineering Engineers tasked with designing more efficient airframe wing boxes are confronted with a host …
Digital Engineering – Is Your Optimization Process Robust Enough?
Posted on 12/1/2012 Source: Digital Engineering HyperSizer from Collier Research ensures integrity from early design to manufacturing. Whether you are …
Wind Systems Magazine – Improving Wind Blade Manufacturability
Posted on 12/1/2012 Source: Wind Systems Magazine Collier Research Corporation’s HyperSizer software optimizes both composite design and manufacturability. COMPOSITES CAN …
SAMPE Journal – Composite Payload Fairing Structural Architecture Assessment and Selection
Posted on 7/1/2012 Source: SAMPE Journal Thomas M. Krivanek NASA Glenn Research Center 21000 Brookpark Rd. Cleveland, OH 44135 Bryan …
Manufacturing Engineering Media – Tech Front: Software Slims Composites, Metals Design
Posted on 7/1/2012 Source: Manufacturing Engineering Media For many industries, composites are the material of choice for achieving lightweight, fuel-efficient …
NAFEMS Benchmark Magazine – Engineering Design Optimisation
Posted on 7/1/2012 Source: NAFEMS Benchmark Magazine The use of design optimisation has been gathering momentum in recent years to …
NASA – Garver Visits Langley, Talks Budget and Observes Unique Modeling Capability
Posted on 2/16/2012 Source: NASA Langley News Releases HAMPTON, Va. — Craig Collier, president of Collier Research Corporation, shows NASA …
NASA – NASA Demonstrates Unique Modeling Capability
Posted on 2/15/2012 Source: NASA Langley News Releases HAMPTON, Va. — NASA will recognize HyperSizer’s evolution from a NASA spinoff …
High Performance Composites – Purging Conservatism from Composite Designs
Posted on 9/1/2011 Source: High Performance Composites Craig Collier, president of Collier Research Group (Hampton, Va.) says cross-discipline software interconnectivity …
SAE International – HyperSizer v6 Optimizes Design and Manufacturability of Composites
Posted on 6/21/2011 Source: SAE International Composites have now gained wide acceptance and validation in aerospace applications. Their weight-to-strength properties …
Engineering News-Record – Software To Optimize Composite Designs
Posted on 6/8/2011 Source: Engineering News-Record During his tenure at the National Aviation and Space Administration, Craig Collier helped develop …
Marine Link – Collier Research Releases HyperSizer V6
Posted on 5/20/2011 Source: MarineLink Collier Research Corporation released its HyperSizer v6 structural sizing and analysis software for reducing …
Design News – HyperSizer v6 Keys in on Manufacturing Optimization
Posted on 5/13/2011 Source: Design News Structural sizing and analysis tool have been enhanced to bring efficiencies to the design …
Windpower Engineering – Materials and Design Methods Look for the 100-m Blade
Posted on 5/1/2011 Source: Windpower Engineering Longer blades will benefit from design-optimization software and new composite materials Read more…
NASA Tech Briefs – From Aircraft Wings to Wind Turbine Blades: NASA Software Comes Back to Earth with Green Energy Applications
Posted on 10/01/2010 Source: NASA Tech Briefs Cover Story: From Aircraft Wings to Wind Turbine Blades: NASA Software Comes Back …
Windpower Engineering – Wind Turbine Design: Building a Better Blade
Posted on 5/10/2010 Source: Windpower Engineering: Building a better blade The first objective of most any large wind turbine blade …
Digital Engineering – Aerospace Designers Must-Have Tools
Posted on 3/1/2010 Source: Digital Engineering Build a lighter, stronger, cheaper airframe—with fewer components—and the world will beat a path …
Industry Week – NASA Tool Could Cross Over to Manufacturing
Posted on 3/1/2010 Source: Industry Week NASA Tool Could Cross Over to Manufacturing HyperSizer analysis optimizes design architectures, predicts performance …
Time Compression – Analysis Software Goes Beyond Elemental
Posted on 3/1/2010 Source: Time Compression Analysis Software Goes Beyond Elemental Don’t guess at product optimization and manufacturability. There’s plenty …
Windpower Engineering – 20% Blade Weight Reduction
Posted on 2/1/2010 Source: Windpower Engineering Developer says 20% blade weight reduction possible Lighter blades are one key to better …
Design News – Sandia Sizes up Wind Turbine Blade Design
Posted on 1/24/2011 Source: Design News Armed with HyperSizer optimization software and FEA, Sandia pursues innovations in large wind turbine …
Aerospace Engineering & Manufacturing – HyperSizer Passes NASA Tests with CCM
Posted on 1/20/2010 Source: Aerospace Engineering & Manufacturing A series of critical, full-scale, physical tests have recently been completed by …
NASA – Composite Crew Module (CCM) Pressure Vessel Pathfinder Development
Posted on 1/10/2010 Source: NASA Composite Crew Module (CCM) For the past three years, the NESC has been evaluating a …
Maritime Reporter Engineering News – From Space to Sea?
Posted on 1/1/2010 Source: Maritime Reporter Engineering News HyperSizer: A software technology out of NASA holds promise for the shipbuilding …
NASA Spinoff – Tools Lighten Designs, Maintain Structural Integrity
Posted on 12/31/2009 Source: NASA Spinoff Magazine Originating Technology/NASA Contribution While working on designs for a new high-speed aircraft, a …
Mechanical Engineering – Composite Aid
Posted on 12/1/2009 Source: Mechanical Engineering The Ares V is NASA’s next generation space launch vehicle. In order to streamline …
Composites World – Optimizing the Ares V Payload Shroud
Posted on 10/1/2009 Source: Optimizing the Ares V Sizing software allows rapid analysis of candidate composite architecture for highly loaded …
Insights – NASA’s Ares V Launch Vehicle Optimized
Posted on 9/24/2009 Source: Insights Preliminary Design of NASA’s Ares V Launch Vehicle Optimized with HyperSizer for Abaqus NASA’s newest …
Digital Engineering – Composites Analysis: Making New Choices
Posted on 3/2/2009 Source: Digital Engineering This COMSOL multiphysics simulation illustrates localized heating damage due to lightning striking a composite-material …
High-Performance Composites – Aircraft Simulation Gets Composites Aware
Posted on 3/1/2009 Source: High-Performance Composites Rapid Software evolution enables faster, better virtual solutions to complex composites design problems. Read …
NASA – Collier Comes Back to His Future at Langley
Posted on 11/3/2008 Source: NASA Langley Researcher News By: Sheri Beam Two decades ago, Craig Collier was helping develop ST-SIZE …
Digital Engineering – Getting Specific: Exploring Niche Design Analysis Software
Posted on 11/1/2008 Source: Digital Engineering This is an NEi Nastran Tension-Only Quad Element analysis specifically created to model highly …
Composites World – Software Secures Lighter, Stronger, Safer Airframe
Posted on 7/1/2006 Source: Composites World The U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Air Vehicles Directorate is pursuing high-speed aerospace …