Coreform (previously called Isogeometrx) has been working for a few years on laying the foundation for the commercial use of isogeometric analysis (IGA). IGA has been well-proven academically as an accurate and exciting field of finite element analysis (FEA). IGA is sometimes called "next-gen" FEA because of its promise of higher accuracy and unification with CAD geometry. But IGA has lacked enabling technology to be seriously used in industry. And, while anyone associated with the CAD or CAE industries would agree at a high level that significant efficiencies would be gained if FEA was able to be performed directly on CAD geometry without first simplifying, approximating, and meshing the CAD, such a vision would require massive, fundamental change.
A path towards this unification of CAD and FEA is emerging at Coreform. Coreform is working on a first commercial step of bringing the accuracy benefits of IGA to existing FEA workflows and has invented an enabling technology, U-splines, that has shown promising early results as a basis for improved simulation as well as potential for use in CAD. Check out the website to learn more.
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