October 19 th , 2001
Press release
EDF R&D has developed for twelve years a numerical simulation software
for structural analysis, Code_Aster � . Widely used for the expertise
and maintenance of power plants and electrical networks, this tool
covers a wide range of applications today :
thermal and mechanical analysis - 3D linear or non linear, static or
dynamic analysis pressure vessels - machines - civil engineering -
porous media
Benefiting from the skills and the quality requirements of the nuclear
engineering industry, this tool is already appreciated by
manufacturers and technical centers, research teams, service suppliers
and teachers.
EDF R&D, responsible for the development of Code_Aster and its
distribution to the EDF teams, opens a new 3-year cycle of development
and qualification.
This effort is justified by the needs of the EDF Group in mechanical
analysis and multi-physics simulation. We wish that this step could
benefit from the contributions of numerous research teams (academic or
industrial) and provide them in return with a long-lasting shelter
than can be easily used for their own works.
To favor the emergence of wide network of users, collect the maximum
of observations and remarks from the mechanical community, allow the
enrichment of the tool, EDF R&D chose to lean on the Internet
technologies.
www.code-aster.org
the new Web site, presented on October 19 th , 2001 at the � Maison de
la M�canique �, near Paris gives access to the development version of
Code_Aster in the form of a free software, under GPL license (GNU
General Public License).
EDF R&D provides the community with the whole Code_Aster software and
additional tools, all the documentation and a wide corpus of tests and
examples, an open architecture and all source programs.
The users network animation features, widely open to debate, define
explicitly the services and the derived works.
Any company or organization will be allowed to distribute the software
in the market, under its own responsibility and independently from
EDF.
>From today, a free offer of training and installation support is
proposed.
With the free distribution of a complete numerical simulation
application, EDF R&D wishes to stimulate the interest groups, the
cooperative projects, the transfers between innovation and industry,
in the mutual interest of the research teams, the technical centers,
the public agencies and all the manufacturers of the mechanical
community.
EDF Research & Development
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