Free Webinars

This informative webinar is designed specifically for mechanical engineers who may not have extensive experience with polymer materials.  We'll delve into polymer structure and essential techniques such as DSC, FTIR, DMA, and TGA, equipping you with the knowledge to analyze key properties beyond basic specifications.  By mastering these methods, you'll gain a deeper understanding of polymer behavior, allowing you to make informed design decisions.

In this free, one-hour webinar, we will share the basics of how to develop material models for adhesives to be used in commercial finite element analysis (FEA) codes.  We will cover both continuum material modeling and cohesive zone modeling. 

In this free, 45-min webinar, we will discuss some of the challenges engineers face when obtaining mechanical properties of materials and components used in medical devices and we will share strategies for designing non-standard mechanical test methods to meet these challenges.

Electromagnetic heating is a critical technology for reducing emissions and energy use in manufacturing, which is the source of more than 30% of our greenhouse gas emissions. In this webinar, we will review various modes of electromagnetic heating, their underlying physics, and key methods for developing accurate multiphysics models of these technologies, and will present three helpful case studies.

This webinar will introduce the mechanics of interfacial stress and delamination in layered structures, with the goal of helping engineers better predict and prevent delamination failures. We will survey the sources and basic characteristics of mechanical stress at interfaces as well as introduce the practical experimental, analytical, and computational approaches available for analyzing delamination failures.

This webinar is intended to introduce FEA engineers to polymer material behavior, discuss how these materials are more interesting than metals, and explain why you need to think beyond standards when planning your analysis workflow.