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December 2009 Contents
Application Brief: Vehicle Door Mass Reduction
HEEDS Technical Tip: Identifying Setup Errors
Announcement: New Director of Engineering
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Optimization of a Vehicle Door to Minimize Mass
Application Brief
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A vehicle door was optimized using HEEDS Professional. The goal of the study was to minimize the door mass through gauge optimization, while meeting the constraints on stress and deflection. Six static load cases were considered for each design iteration.

HEEDS found a design that reduced the mass of the considered components by 18.6% over the baseline design, while meeting all of the performance requirements. 

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How to Quickly Identify Potential Runtime Errors in a HEEDS Setup
HEEDS Professional Tip

Before launching any HEEDS study, it is important to make sure that there are no errors in the model setup. Unresolved errors can result in the loss of valuable time. For example, a HEEDS study with undetected runtime errors, executed to run unmonitored over the weekend, could result in the loss of up to three days of computational time.

This tip will describe a few different techniques you can use to quickly identify potential runtime errors without performing complete design evaluations.

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Red Cedar Welcomes New Director of Engineering
Announcement

We are pleased to announce that Bruce G. Fedewa, P.E., has joined Red Cedar Technology as our Director of Engineering. In this position, Bruce will play a key role in the successful management of Red Cedar Technology's engineering consulting services and customer support projects. 

Bruce brings twenty-eight years of customer-oriented engineering and project management experience to this position, as well as proven expertise in applying CAE tools to challenging engineering analysis and design problems.

We hope you'll join us in welcoming Bruce to Red Cedar Technology!

About Our Engineering Consulting Services
Red Cedar Technology provides CAE design, analysis and optimization services that can give your company a competitive advantage in a crowded market.

Our consulting services include computer-aided engineering (CAE) modeling, finite element analysis, design optimization, and software customization -- from the concept stage through final design.

Our engineering expertise and unique design strategies are used worldwide by project development teams to design safer cars, life-saving biomedical devices, innovative structures for air travel and space exploration, robust manufacturing processes, and much more.

What can we do for you? Contact Bruce to find out.

Client Testimonial
"The folks at Red Cedar are professional, intelligent, and exciting to work with. With their help, we were able to optimize an extrusion design by reducing mass significantly further than with traditional CAE methods." - Dan Casey, P.E., Senior Applications Engineer, Steelcase, Inc.

As always, we hope you have found this issue informative and interesting. If you have questions or feedback, please don't hesitate to contact us.
 
Sincerely,
The Red Cedar Technology Team
newsletter@redcedartech.com

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