Liege, Belgium, 27th February 2009. SAMTECH, European specialist in development of ComputerAided Engineering software and advanced FEA modeling technology, announces its participation tothe European Wind energy Exhibition and Conference (EWEC 2009), which will be held from the15th to the 19th of March in Marseille, France. On March 17th at 2:00 PM, SAMTECH will alsoorganize a side event at EWEC 2009 to demonstrate to wind energy industry the power and userfriendlinessof the latest release of its engineering software platform “SAMCEF for Wind Turbines(S4WT)”. S4WT is dedicated to the prediction of dynamic loads on Wind Turbine components,through a global model of the whole wind turbine, with or without gearbox.
Building highly reliable wind turbines is an important challenge for the future of the Wind TurbinesIndustry. It is crucial to remain competitive, to reduce wind turbines time-to-market as well asprohibitive maintenance costs and time during which wind turbines are idle due to mechanicalproblems. In order to provide an answer to these requirements, SAMTECH used its 20 yearsexperience in the modeling of large flexible machines and its 10 years expertise in Wind Energy tocreate SAMCEF for Wind Turbines (S4WT), that is now a very general and open professionalframework dedicated to the Virtual Prototyping of Wind Turbines.
S4WT can be used at different levels in the wind turbine engineering process and by differentengineering teams pursuing the same goals (loads groups, transmission departments, componentteams, integration programs...). It is made of two main parts that will be demonstrated during theworkshop: S4WT Modeler for sub-models creation and S4WT Desktop for automated computationsand post-processing of the whole wind turbine model with aerodynamic forces and control.
After the technical presentations of the conference, the participants will have the opportunity to askquestions and interact with SAMTECH teams. The S4WT side event will be held on the March 17thfrom 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm, with three sessions of one hour (first session starting at 2.30, secondsession starting at 3.30 and last session starting at 4.30).The event is free of charge. Pre-registration has however to be done on /S4WT_EWEC_Side_Event/, not later than the 13th of March 2009.
About SAMTECH at EWEC 2009
SAMTECH will be present for the whole duration of EWEC 2009 (hall 3, stand 3713) in order toperform live demonstrations of S4WT.
SAMTECH will also present a paper on Wednesday 18th March in the structural design andaeroelasticity session (11.00-12.30, CT2 session) in order to bring answers to questions of expertsand scientists. This article was co-written between SAMTECH Iberica and General Electric GlobalResearch. It is entitled “Matching experimental and numerical data of dynamic wind turbine loadsby modelling of defects“.
SAMTECH is a member of UPWIND FP6 project that will also hold a side event during EWEC2009.
For more information about EWEC 2009, SAMTECH side event, SAMTECH article presentationduring the conference or to find SAMTECH stand on the interactive map (stand 3713, hall 3),please visit the EWEC 2009 website at www.ewec2009.info.
About SAMTECH
SAMTECH is a European leading provider of Computer Aided Engineering software. Founded in1986, SAMTECH develops and markets the general-purpose Finite Element Analysis codeSAMCEF, the Multi-Disciplinary Optimization platform BOSS quattro and the Open CAE IntegrationFramework CAESAM on which S4WT Desktop is based. These core engineering software toolsanswer to a wide range of industrial needs from the preliminary phases of design to the mostadvanced verification analyses. The software technology of SAMTECH has an unsurpassedreputation for its quality and reliability. It has been adopted by many major companies across allengineering disciplines as an integral part of their design process. SAMTECH software arecompatible with any CAD system (UNIGRAPHICS, CATIA, PROENGINEER, SOLIDWORKS,SOLIDEDGE...) through STEP geometrical format. SAMTECH is certified to ISO9001:2000 qualitystandards and operates through a network of subsidiaries and representatives in key locationsaround the world.
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Didier Granville, Chief Marketing Officer
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Liege Science Park
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