NW Numerics Company Information
The company Northwest Numerics, Inc. was incorporated in Seattle WA, March 1996 by the current president Ronald Foerch, Ph.D.Our goal is to provide solutions for advanced multi-disciplinary engineering analysis, with a special emphasis on materials related issues. To this end, our main focus is on the development and support of Zebulon and the Z-mat library.
Please see our Jobs page for current career opportunities at NW Numerics.
NW Numerics Staff
| Ronald A. Foerch received his Doctorate from the Ecole des Mines in Paris France, 1996, after porting the general purpose non-linear FEA code Zebulon originally from Fortran to C++. He has extensive experience in high temperature creep fatigue testing and failure analysis microscopy. Dr. Foerch made numerous contributions to the material library and code performance in Zebulon, including writing the Z-mat user material model interfaces for Abaqus, Ansys, LS-Dyna, etc. He has added many element formulations, algorithms, and material models to our software products. Ron's real passion is developing the connection between our advanced FEA technologies and laboratory validation and calibration of those models. |
|
The Z-set Partnership
| The Z-set project has been piloted by the research developments and long term use by the Ecole des Mines Materials Research Centre - UMR CNRS 7633 in Evry France. |
|
| ONERA is responsible for development in the parallel solver of Zebulon, and certain material models and FEA solution procedures. |
|
This distributed community of researchers and commercialization developers has been highly successful over the last almost 10 years to deliver a software package with true innovation and quality.
From left to right, Bruno Souloumiac, Rodolphe Le Riche, Stephane Quilici, Valarie Mounoury,
Ron Foerch, Frederic Feyel, Jacques Besson, Georges Cailletaud, Jean-Louis Chaboche,
Samuel Forest, Lucien Laiarinandrasana.