History of MADYN 2000

The roots of MADYN go back to the Institute for Machine Dynamics at the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. Basic research for this program was carried out from 1970 until 1990. In 1983 an industrial version of MADYN was launched. This version was basically created by Dr. Heinz Dieter Klement, who decided to rewrite the complete code rather than to combine the existing fragments. Over the years the features of MADYN were further enhanced among others by non-linear analyses. In 1998 an add-on to MADYN was created by DELTA JS in order to meet the demands for magnetic bearing applications. In 2001 the project MADYN 2000 started with the aim to maintain the power of MADYN and its enhancements, while considerably improving the user-friendliness. The project was sponsored by 4 companies. In 2004 the last milestone of this project was finished and in 2005 the program was generally released.

The module for the fluid film bearing analysis within MADYN 2000 goes back to the program ALP3T, which is a result of more than 20 years of research mainly of Prof. Glienicke sponsored by the German research consortium FVV (Forschungsvereinigung Verbrennungskraftmaschinen). DELTA JS is a member of this research group.