Dear Anders,
As for MEMS-specific packages, I have little experience, but one of
the best analysis packages for magnetics, electrical materials
including piezo, electrostrictives, magnetostrictives and so on. Is
ATILA available from [email protected] or web page:
http://www.cedrat-grenoble.fr
I have used ANSYS and other FEA packages but find them more
difficult to use, a bit liable to crash and not as flexible. For MEMS,
ATILA may also have advantages since it is easy to build 2D
models and then extrude them into planar shapes formed by
lithography.
I think it can handle fluid interactions, non-linear contacts and is
the only one I have found to be able to put multiple electrical
excitations, different in phase, onto piezoelectrics. (If anyone
knows whether ANSYS can do this please let me know).
Maybe you could let me know where ADINA is available etc.

Hope this is of interest.

Phil Rayner



On 16 Nov 98, at 13:46, ANDERS OLSSON wrote:

From:                   "ANDERS OLSSON" 
Date sent:              Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:46:08 CET
Subject:                Experience of ADINA?
To:                     [email protected]
Send reply to:          "ANDERS OLSSON" , [email protected]

> Dear Colleagues
>
> I am currently in the process to decide which simulation tool our
> organization should use. I know there exist several different tools
> dedicated for MEMS, but I am also considering more general FEA
> packages.
>
> I know that ADINA is a well known software package for finite element
> analysis, but I can not remember I have seen anyone use it for MEMS.
> If you have any experience of ADINA used for MEMS I would appreciate
> your response. Especially I am interested to hear about ADINA-F
> (fluid),  but I am also interested to hear about mechanical, thermal
> and coupled fields.
>
> Sincerely
> Anders
>
>