Validating Designs

Using Silicon Graphics Indy R4600SC workstations Fender is able to validate new guitar designs long before they go to manufacturing. Using MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation's simulation software MSC/NANSTRAN for the FEA calculations, Fender engineers are able to better understand the complex moisture content expansion and contraction behavior of wood when several species, varying in both rates of expansion and grain angle, are laminated together.