VISTAGY Donates FiberSIM Software to UMass Amherst College of Engineering

By DE Editors

VISTAGY, Inc. has announced the donation of 10 FiberSIM composites engineering software licenses to the UMass Amherst College of Engineering. FiberSIM software is used to support the design and manufacturing methodologies necessary to engineer composite products.

"FiberSIM is clearly the number one composites engineering software so this donation by VISTAGY, an industry pioneer and leader, enhances our ability to conduct cutting edge research in composites manufacturing and will provide new knowledge in the research and educational programs for our students," says Ted Djaferis, dean of the College of Engineering. "It will also enable our faculty and students to gain a greater understanding of the design process for highly complex engineering products, such as wind turbine blades, medical devices, and aerospace parts."

Researchers in the Wind Energy Center can use the software in their designs of wind turbine blades. The Center for e-design can use the software to explore ways to model some of the manufacturability information that FiberSIM enables design engineers to capture in the native CAD tool using formal information modeling techniques. Newly hired faculty member Frank Sup will be able to use the software to improve the design of robotic prosthetic devices. The undergraduate team that designs and builds the super mileage vehicle each year can use FiberSIM to optimize the carbon fiber body. And students in the graduate introduction to finite element analysis (FEA) course will be able to use it to develop more accurate FEA models.

For more information, visit VISTAGY, Inc.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.