| | Jun 02 - Italy's Minardi Formula 1 Race Team Selects Noran NEiNastran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Minardi revealed that NEiNastran will be used in the design of its monocoque carbon fiber chassis in which a thorough and comprehensive analysis will render everything digitally, down to the smallest fiber. |
 | | This ability to perform highly accurate analyses will enable Minardi designers to wring the most performance out of their designs, reduce their design-to-fabrication cycle time, and result in monetary savings by reducing the number of iterations needed in the thorough testing program prototypes must undergo. |
 | | Paolo Marabini, Chief Engineer for Structures and Calculation at Minardi F1 Team, commented on their software change, “We have chosen NEiNastran after an extensive and detailed internal benchmarking process, comparing the results, the performance and the features of the solver developed by Noran Engineering Inc. with those of our former FEA platform. |
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