ALGOR OFFERS FREE, LIMITED-TIME TRIAL SOFTWARE ON-LINE

Algor offers free, limited-time trial software that includes the company's most updated design and engineering capabilities for finite element analysis (FEA) on its web site, www.algor.com. Engineers can also download free keystroke tutorials and video product demonstrations from Algor's web site.

February 4, 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- Algor, Inc., a leading maker of software for mechanical engineers, today announced the availability of free, limited-time trial software on its World Wide Web site, www.algor.com. The software includes the company's most updated design and engineering capabilities for finite element analysis (FEA).

"Our free, limited-time trial software gives all engineers the opportunity to test Algor's latest FEA features and determine how Algor can help them to make better products," said Michael L. Bussler, president and CEO of Pittsburgh-based Algor, Inc. "We encourage those who evaluate the software to provide feedback so that we can continue to improve its capabilities and ease-of-use."

"This approach is unprecedented because, for the first time, engineers can download the full software as opposed to a special limited version. They can discover the benefits first-hand by analyzing their own models rather than getting the 'spin' from field sales people and demo 'engineers,'" said Bussler.

Engineers can also download free keystroke tutorials and video product demonstrations. The keystroke-specific tutorials provide detailed, easy-to-understand instruction on the most frequently used finite element modeling, engineering analysis and Mechanical Event Simulation capabilities, and the video demonstrations show live FEA experiments, including comparisons of Mechanical Event Simulations and actual laboratory results. Algor's web site also provides the latest software product and service information, accuracy verifications, the Algor Design World newsletter, upcoming education seminars, customer application stories and more.

Algor's latest demonstration software is available for PC workstations running Windows NT and Windows 95/98. For information on downloading the software by modem from Algor's web site or from a free CD-ROM version of the web site, contact Algor by phone at +1 (412) 967-2700 or by e-mail at info@algor.com.

Algor has been a leader in the engineering software industry since it introduced FEA for PCs in 1984 and interfacing with CAD systems in 1985. The company recently celebrated 20 years of providing finite element users with innovative, affordable and easy-to-use software products and superior educational support and customer service. Algor's FEA software has enabled 16,000 engineers in 60 countries to create safe, efficient, cost-effective designs.

Algor's latest invention, Accupak/VE, realistically simulates motion in mechanical events, eliminating the need to input a force, and computes and shows resulting stresses on the computer model at each instant in time. Accupak/VE replaces physical prototype testing with virtual prototype testing because it performs linear and nonlinear static and dynamic finite element stress analysis with motion for physics-based Mechanical Event Simulation. Algor offers a range of other FEA capabilities including linear and nonlinear stress, vibration and natural frequencies, heat transfer, electrostatics, fluid flow, piping design and composite materials. In addition, Algor works with virtually any CAD system and offers advanced FEA meshing tools.