NCode (company)
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nCode is a company providing engineering solutions whose head office is in Sheffield, UK. The company was founded in 1982 and for many years has been a specialist provider of software for metal fatigue analysis. In recent years the company has diversified to produce more general engineering software, including signal processing and data management, and, through acquisition, hardware for recording engineering data. It also has a specialist materials testing division and can offer consultancy services for a wide range of durability related problems.
The company logo was formed from the hysteresis loop derived from the relationship between stress and strain when metal is cycled under strain control. This is a key part of understanding material behaviour under cyclic loading. The company was originally meant to be called nPrime (a local strain method material property), but Prime Computer objected to the name so it was changed to nCode.
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[edit] Products
[edit] SOMAT
nCode acquired SOMAT Inc., a company producing data acquisition hardware units often used to gather the data displayed and analysed by nCode products such as GlyphWorks and nSoft.
[edit] nSoft
nSoft is a software product for general purpose signal processing, data visualisation and metal fatigue analysis. It was launched in 1986.
[edit] GlyphWorks
GlyphWorks is a software product for general purpose signal processing, data visualisation and metal fatigue analysis. It was launched in 2003.
[edit] International support
The company has sales and support offices in the United States (Southfield, Michigan), France, Germany, Japan and China. It has representatives in many other countries.
[edit] Partners
nCode has produced joint products in the area of Computer Aided Engineering since 1990 with MSC Software. These products have linked together the results of finite element analysis with fatigue calculations, allowing a component designer to estimate the fatigue life of the component without making a prototype.
