Smr Company Resume

8/3/2019 Smr Company Resume

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SMR Company Rsum

SMR Engineering & DevelopmentCH-2500 Bienne 4

Switzerland

http://www.smr.ch


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SMR Company Overview

Contents

Company

Services

Products

Collaborations


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Company

SMR is a service company on the intersection ofComputer Science, Mathematics, and EngineeringMechanics.

Founded in 1980 and located in Bienne, Switzerland.


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Company

SMR is the originator of the engineering datamanagement system MemCom and the B2000integrated finite element problem solving environment.

Staff includes aerospace engineers,a mathematician, a computer scientist and chemical

engineer. In addition to staff, external consultants are at hand.


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Services

Software development:

Computational mechanics, computational fluid dynamics.

Visualization and data management.

Distributed computing.

Simulation and knowledge-based engineering. Computational mechanics:

Linear and non-linear problems.

Optimization.

Training: SMR's products (simulation, visualization, data

management).

Programming (C++, Python, Linux/Unix).


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Services: Software development

Store

Visualization of store separationprocess with very large databases.

Development of customizedvisualization tools.

Processes very large FEMmodels.

Customization of data import and

export software.

Automated post-processing byadvanced scripting.

Embedding post-processing tools.

Visualization of CFD model


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Integration of the B2000 explicit FEM analysis module withexternal packages. The coupled simulation runs on twosites.

Example of coupled problem: Demonstrator for coupling explicit FEM modulewith a rigid body program. Weak coupling via socket communication.

Spring-dashpot model

Rigid bodies

Explicit FEM model

Simpack process B2000 process


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Development of a a job controlsystem for a bio-informaticscompany :

Manage and optimize parallel

jobs on a cluster of 1400workstations.

Manage optimal distribution ofvery large data in a cluster.

Very fast development cycle:

3 months from concept toindustrial solution.


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Development and application ofenvironmental simulationsoftware:

Assessment of air trafficdevelopment scenarios,

Study of alternative take-off andlanding procedures to limit thenoise and pollution,

Study of alternative flight routes,

Computation of noise contours.

Example of average sound level contour plotaround an airport.

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Summary of exhaust gases producedwithin Swedish Airspace.


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Services: Computational mechanics

Apply pressure withsmall rigid piston

Axisymmetric model of a human eye (corneaand sclera).

Undeformed mesh

Deformed mesh

Rigid piston

Deformation simulations of

human tissues with emphasis onspecial problems incomputational mechanics

Example - FEM simulation of aGoldmann tonometer:

Highly non-linear elasticanisotropic incompressiblematerial.

Large deformations.

Contact.


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Services: Computational mechanics

A FEM tool for collapse analysis of

thin-walled structures:

Optimized for composite andmetallic structures.

Captures buckling and post-

buckling by static or implicitdynamic FEM analysis.

State-of-the-art shell element.

Fast response.

Developed in part within an EC-

funded research project(Framework 6).

Final post-buckled configuration and deformationamplitude of axially compressed composite panelNo amplification.


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Products

SMR develops, maintains, and distributes software

products for computational mechanics and multi-disciplinary simulations:

B2000 FEM simulation environment.

Baspl++ FEM viewing system.

FSCON/FSI multi-disciplinary FEM coupling tools.

MemCom engineering data management.


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Products: The B2000 FEM environment

In a market dominated by a

few standard packages, B2000offers:

An open simulationenvironment,

A development platform forsolving non-standard problems.

Design ideas of B2000:

Primarily designed for solvingFEM problems.

Designed around a commondatabase.

Central CVS software server.

Dynamic analysis of cable-stayed bridge


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Products: Coupling Tools

FSI/FSCON can be applied to

typical problems of aero-elasticity such as:

Unsteady: Flutter analysis,Buffeting.

Steady: Load distribution,divergence, control reversal.

Specially suited whereadvanced multi-regioncoupling and post-

processing capabilities arerequired.

multi-region

coupling

Undeformed structure

Deformed structure


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Products: Viewing Tools

SMR's FEM viewing tools are

designed for processing large-scale CFD, CSM, coupled, andmulti-disciplinary simulations.

Design ideas

Steerable by scriptinglanguage and GUI.

Runs on open source-basedoff-the-shelf systems.

Suited for automated post-

processing.

Visualisation of large CFD meshes


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Products: MemCom Data Manager

Purpose:

An engineering datamanagement tool.

Tailored to FEM and relatedapplications.

Design ideas: Efficient for very large

amounts of data.

Easy to learn and use.

Simple Fortran, C, PythonAPI's.

Relational table describing vibration mode


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Customers

B2000 and/or MemCom are used by

European aerospace research institutes, like DLR(Germany), NLR (The Netherlands), CIRA (Italy).

Industry, like SAAB Military Aircraft (Sweden),EADS Airbus (Hamburg, Toulouse), RUAG Aerospace

(Switzerland). And technical universities, like TU Twente (The

Netherlands), ETH-Z, EPF-L (Switzerland).


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Collaborations

Industrial and researchcollaborations: Within theB2000 consortium.

Collaborations withindustrial and academic

partners. EC funded research

projects: SMR hasparticipated and isparticipating in several EC-

funded research projects.

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