Extreme Loading for Structures (ELS), By Applied Science International, LLC software

With ELS, users can select from a list of linear and nonlinear materials and modify standard material properties to match real-world conditions. Applying loads was never easier, with the multi-stage sequential loading found in ELS, users can create complex loading scenarios quickly and easily. Users may choose from a wide variety of static and dynamic loading types and create scenarios including multiple successive hazards.

The 3D Extreme Loading for Structures Results Viewer allows the user to view frame by frame results as the solver runs and perform a number of post-processing tasks in order to analyze results and export presentation and report materials.

The modeler included with Extreme Loading^® for Structures (ELS) provides engineers with a comprehensive and intuitive style-based modeling interface that allows users to quickly and easily create 3-D solid element structural models for nonlinear static or dynamic analysis structures.

The Applied Element Method (AEM) based solver in Extreme Loading^® for Structures is a derivative of the Finite Element Method (FEM) and the Discrete Element Method (DEM).  AEM is capable of performing both linear and nonlinear, static or dynamic analysis that follows the behavior of structures through separation, collision, and collapse.