The company’s staff of more than 2,400, including 600 Ph.D.s, has created algorithms that mirror the laws of physics, allowing Ansys programs to model virtually anything (including how a Head racket bends when hitting a ball) Ninety-six of the 100 biggest industrial companies, and 40,000 customers in all, use Ansys technology to evaluate product mater-ials and durability. Experienced engineers who once had to produce dozens of mock-ups to arrive at a final product now need a handful at most, saving time and money. Work from computer-aided design (CAD) applications can be fed into the simulation software.The software grew out of work done decades ago within the nuclear research group at Westinghouse Electric, which needed a way to model how reactors would withstand stress and unforeseen events such as earthquakes.
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