Dassault Systemes Announces New Release of Abaqus FEA from SIMULIA
24 Nov 2009
ACN Newswire
Singapore, Nov 24, 2009 - ( ACN Newswire ) - Dassault Systemes (DS), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of Abaqus 6.9 Extended Functionality (6.9-EF), its technology-leading unified finite element analysis (FEA) product suite from SIMULIA.
Designers, engineers, and researchers in a broad range of industries use Abaqus to predict the real-world behavior of products, materials, and manufacturing processes. This latest release delivers key new features and enhancements for modeling, advanced mechanics, and performance. These ongoing improvements are enabling customers to consolidate their simulation software, thereby lowering cost and increasing efficiency in their product development process.
"To meet product performance requirements within ever-shorter product development timelines, it is imperative that we perform physically accurate design simulations as fast as possible," stated Kirk Siefker, Senior Analytical Engineer, Engine Components, Schaeffler Group USA. "With the improved implicit dynamic capabilities in Abaqus 6.9-EF, we are able to simulate the realistic performance of our engine component and system designs 30% faster while enhancing our product's overall performance."
"The extended functionality of Abaqus underscores our ongoing commitment to delivering robust, customer-driven enhancements to our realistic simulation software more quickly," stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault Systemes. "The latest capabilities in 6.9-EF will benefit our users in every industry by helping them accelerate the evaluation of real-world product behavior during the design phase."
New features and enhancements in Abaqus 6.9-EF release include:
Modeling
- Interactive support is provided for meshing models using cylindrical elements, which can be useful in the analysis of pipelines by oil and gas companies.
- Geometry repair tools in Abaqus/CAE offer greater flexibility and broader scope for systematically adjusting the geometry of a model in preparation for meshing.
- An interface for model change definitions allows the deactivation and reactivation of model regions and contact pairs during an analysis.
- Users can now define direct cyclic and low-cycle fatigue analysis procedures in Abaqus/CAE. Low-cycle fatigue analysis can be used to efficiently predict fatigue life in electronic components such as solder joints.
- Discrete orientations provide a convenient method for accurately defining spatially varying material orientations on models with curved geometries such as aircraft panels and car bodies.
Advanced Mechanics
- Viscoelastic behavior can be now modeled with orthotropic/anisotropic elasticity in Abaqus/Explicit, which provides more realistic composite damage prediction.
- A new and efficient method is available for analyzing structures subject to air blast loading, which is useful for safety evaluation in the civil engineering and defense industries.
- Continued advancements in fracture and failure include contour integral evaluation for cracks defined with XFEM and the inclusion of the Virtual Crack Closure Technique (VCCT) in Abaqus/Explicit, which allows users to model brittle fracture of partially bonded surfaces.
- Breakthrough improvement in the implicit dynamics procedure helps solve unstable problems involving contact, buckling, and material failure. Examples include impact inside gear mechanisms and medical device deployment within patients.
Performance
- A new iterative solver in Abaqus/Standard provides performance gains up to 20x or more in comparison to the direct sparse solver. The iterative solver is intended for very large simulation problems typically found in applications such as powertrain, oil reservoir, and material microstructure simulations.
- Performance of creating high-quality surface meshes using the mapped meshing technique has been significantly improved. Depending on the part, performance gains of 2x to 40x are possible. This is extremely useful in meshing engine blocks and ship hulls.
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About SIMULIA
SIMULIA is the Dassault Systemes brand that delivers a scalable portfolio of Realistic Simulation solutions including the Abaqus product suite for Unified Finite Element Analysis, multiphysics solutions for insight into challenging engineering problems, and SIMULIA SLM for managing simulation data, processes, and intellectual property. By building on established technology, respected quality, and superior customer service, SIMULIA makes realistic simulation an integral business practice that improves product performance, reduces physical prototypes, and drives innovation. Headquartered in Providence, RI, USA, SIMULIA provides sales, services, and support through a global network of regional offices and distributors. For more information, visit www.simulia.com.
About Dassault Systemes
As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systemes brings value to more than 100,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systemes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance to recycling. The Dassault Systemes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product - SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design - DELMIA for virtual production - SIMULIA for virtual testing - ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, and 3DVIA for online 3D lifelike experiences. Dassault Systemes' shares are listed on Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) and Dassault Systemes' ADRs may be traded on the US Over-The-Counter (OTC) market (DASTY). For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com.
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