Cervelo Cycles Ratchets Up Technical Performance on Next-Generation Racing Bikes With Noran Engineering's Finite Element Analysis Software
Posted on: Tuesday, 1 August 2006, 15:00 CDT
Noran Engineering announced that Cervelo Cycles, a manufacturer of professional competition road and triathlon bikes, has selected a portfolio of Noran Engineering's finite element analysis software for use in product development. Cervelo explained that the level of design sophistication in the bicycle industry has been steadily increasing and computer-aided engineering tools are needed to meet the challenges of optimizing engineering materials like carbon composites and extending design metrics like strength-to-weight ratio, vibration characteristics, and flexural stiffness. "We chose Noran Engineering's NEiNastran because of its accuracy, functionality, and demonstrated value in similarly demanding applications," said Don Guichard, director of engineering for Cervelo Cycles.
Cervelo most recently introduced a super-light carbon frame with high stiffness-to-weight, the Soloist Carbon-SL, and provided bikes in this year's Tour de France to Team CSC, which earned two stage wins by Jens Voight and Frank Schleck, earned second in the team classification, and saw Carlos Sastre finish fourth overall.
"We are excited to have Cervelo using NEiNastran in their product development process," said Dave Weinberg, CEO of Noran Engineering. "They will be able to gain the same key benefits that we see in our community of users in other high-performance products like America's Cup Yachts, Formula One race car bodies, and innovative aerospace structures like SpaceShipOne."
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About Cervelo Cycles
Phil White and Gerard Vroomen founded Cervelo Cycles in 1995 with a new-design time-trial bicycle for professional racing. Today, Cervelo Cycles, based in Toronto, is the largest time-trial bike manufacturer in the world and has a major partnership agreement with Team CSC managed by Bjarne Riis, 1996 winner of the Tour de France. Go to www.cervelo.com to see its full line of equipment and cycling apparel.
About Noran Engineering Inc.
Noran Engineering Inc. (NEi) is a world leader in developing Nastran engineering finite element analysis software (FEA) for structural, thermal, dynamic, fluid flow, fatigue, composites, and optimization and is used by innovative companies worldwide in aerospace, automotive, maritime, military, medical, consumer, and sports products.
Web site: www.NEiNastran.com, Telephone: 714-899-1220, E-mail: info@noraneng.com.
Source: Business Wire
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