TopAct™

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When developing systems that must be hardened to radiation, you want to make sure that you have just the right amount of shielding. Too much shielding adds expense, complexity and - of particular concern for aerospace applications - weight. Too little shielding can result in performance degradation or catastrophic failure.

TopAct is a software tool that bridges the worlds of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and radiation transport analysis (RTA). Developed following years of research at the Raytheon Company, TopAct automatically analyzes your mechanical models and refashions them into high fidelity models that reduces by orders of magnitude the processing time required by MCNP and other RTA codes compared to automated mesh-based methods. The bottom line is that you can vastly improve the quality of the radiation transport analyses you perform- and extend that quality to the shielding system you're designing.