Concept to Reality - Ideas and Strategies in Product Development

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    Beverly Beckert

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    Michael J. Kidder

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    Angela Vannucci

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    Erik Lodermeier

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    David Bosak
    Concept To Reality is published biannually for Altair Engineering, Inc., by Penton Custom Media, a unit of Penton Media, Inc.



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    Page 2

    Simulation Streamlines Aircraft Door Development

    The Eurocopter Group leverages analysis to cut design time and automate the process of developing safe aircraft closures.
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    Page 2

    Bird Strike Simulation Takes Flight

    The increasing number of bird-plane impacts gives rise to new CAE methods to address aircraft safety.
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    Page 8

    Structural Optimization Helps Launch Space Payloads

    Aerospace company employs simulation software to reduce weight in the Launch Abort Manifold for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle.
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    Page 12

    Inside a NASA Production Supercomputing Center

    It takes a super workload management tool to power grid, cluster and on-demand computing environments for computational modeling and simulation applications at NASA.
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