Just dropped your cellphone? Read this

Jo Hussey

A drop onto a hard surface can crack the screen but also damage the circuit board with its many electronic components and connectors soldered to it. That is why drop testing, also known as impact analysis, is one of the most important stages of product design and development for many diverse industries.

Learn more about drop testing here.

 

Radioss, Altair’s solver for dynamic events, can simulate drop tests to yield dramatic cost and time-to-market benefits for manufacturers, including accuracy, repeatability while offering better insights into how to optimize designs. 

Read here how LG Electronics sliced the time required for drop-test simulation from a week to just hours.