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Materials Sciences Corporation
Address
Materials
Sciences Corporation
500 Office Center Drive, Suite 250
Fort Washington, PA 19034
web:
http://www.materials-sciences.com
email:
info@materials-sciences.com
phone: 215-542-8400
fax: 215-542-8401
Background
Materials Sciences Corporation (MSC) is an engineering services organization providing
advanced technology for the structures and materials field. The company specializes in
understanding the relations between material properties and structural performance
and is particularly well known for its expertise in the field of composite structural
materials.
Because of the inherent analytic complexity of anisotropic materials, MSC has had to
develop expertise in computer algebra systems and advanced programming techniques.
Mr. Gerry Flanagan, one of the technical directors of MSC, has been programming in
Mathematica since the first release of the program in 1988. MSC began
using Mathematica as a tool for analytic derivations and is now also creating
material and structural computational models using Mathematica as the programming
language.
MSC has created webMathematica sites for clients and maintains the free
Structural
Mechanics
Calculators site that allows users to perform basic lamination
theory calculations.
Consulting Information
Mr. Gerry Flanagan at MSC has used Mathematica since 1988.
The company began doing Mathematica consulting in 2002.
- Expertise
- Material modeling and simulation
- Structural analysis
- webMathematica consulting
- Major Clients
- U.S. Department of Defense
- Shipbuilders
- Aircraft companies
- Computer Language Experience in Addition to Mathematica
- Major Software Systems in Addition to Mathematica
- Patran
- ABAQUS
- Mvision
- Solid Edge
- FEMAP
- Platform Experience
- Languages Spoken
- Geographic Area of Operation
Consulting Case Study
MSC is a subcontractor to Boeing on a DARPA
(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) program titled "Accelerated Insertion of
Materials." The program focuses on using analytic methods to reduce the time needed
to introduce a new composite material system into products. MSC developed a series
of Mathematica packages that go from micromechanical analyses of composites to
structural subelements of an aircraft. A major goal of the program was linking all levels of
these analyses together. The Mathematica language is ideal for developing data
structures such that the output from one operation directly becomes the input for
the next.
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