Fitness for Service – Alternatives for equipment validation

Boiler and pressure equipment manufacturers face everyday strict design and manufacturing requirements to supply heat exchangers, pressure vessels or process equipment. The recognized international design and manufacturing codes that are prescribed for this type of equipment (ASME VIII Div. 1 & 2, EN13445, AD2000, etc.) specify those tests, trials, inspections and quality controls to be […]

PV Structures: beyond structural design

The relevance of solar structures is growing in the investment of PV solar plants due to many factors related to the PV market evolution: tendency towards multi-Megawatt plants, global increased of the competition and new emerging markets, and overall drastic drop of prices on solar panels.  

CADE: lecturer at Seminar of Energy – CIEMAT

CADE will be present as a lecturer on the 2nd Edition of the Energy Seminar that will be held next February 23rd 2016 at CIEMAT headquarters. The event, hosts by ANSYS and CIEMAT, seeks the goal of being a meeting place for the energy sector with testimonies of clients, and focused on ANSYS Version 17.0 […]

Estandarización de modelos FEM a partir de modelos parametrizados APDL

El compromiso de CADE con nuestros clientes siempre nos lleva a buscar la reducción del tiempo de análisis y modelado 3D en la validación y optimización de equipos y estructuras de proceso con Análisis de Elementos Finitos. Una herramienta útil para trabajar en este propósito es la construcción de modelos parametrizados en ANSYS Mechanical APDL […]

FEM models standardization from APDL parameterized models

CADE’s commitment with our customers always lead us to look for 3D modeling and analysis time reduction in validation and optimization of process equipment and structures with Finite Element Analysis. One handful tool to work on this purpose is the construction of Parameterized models in ANSYS Mechanical APDL and ANSYS Workbench. One of the most […]