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[previous article] [next article]EASY5, software from the Boeing Corporation, is used to model and simulate dynamic systems containing hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical, thermal, electrical and digital sub-systems. Included is a complete set of control system modeling, analysis and design features. Systems are quickly modeled with functional blocks (summers, dividers, wave generators, integrators, etc.) and/or with pre-defined components representing physical elements (pumps, gears, engines, etc.), as well as user-defined FORTRAN or C. If required, virtual prototypes of entire systems can be constructed via links to other CAE software and used for multi-body and structural dynamics, controls, controller code generation, intergrated circuit design, and others. Source code is automatically generated to support real-time simulation.
Engineers can use EASY5 to solve modeling, analysis and design problems in mechanical, electrical, aeronautic/astronautic systems, hydraulic, fluid power, pneumatic, thermal and control systems -- and for combinations of these systems! EASY5 can be used, and has been used, to solve problems in applications ranging from earth movers to spacecraft.
Every Boeing division and virtually every Boeing product team uses EASY5. Other users include scores of manufacturing, design and research engineers worldwide. More than 50 universities use EASY5 for education and research.
You can run EASY5 from any ECN Sun computer using the X window environment (openwin or CDE). Type /usr/site/abe/bin/easy5x . The demonstration files are stored in /home/danpatch/k/SYSTEM/easy5_v53/easy5/easy5x/demos
Contact Stan Harlow (harlow@ecn.purdue.edu) in the Ag and Biological Engineering department with your questions.
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