Record Number of Presentations Highlight Advances Using Realistic Simulation Technology and Methods.
Dassault Systèmes announced the successful conclusion of the 23rd annual international SIMULIA Customer Conference (SCC), held May 17-19, 2011, in Barcelona, Spain. Keynote addresses from General Motors Powertrain and BD, as well as an invited general lecture by PSA Peugeot Citroën, set the stage for innovative thought leadership discussions focusing on industry applications of SIMULIA’s solutions for unified finite element analysis, multiphysics simulation, design optimization, and simulation lifecycle management.
The guest speakers were complemented by more than 90 presentations by engineers representing more than 80 international manufacturing and research organizations, including Airbus, Abbott Vascular, Cordis Corporation, Fiat Research Center, Ford Motor Company, Halliburton, Hyundai, IDIADA, Medtronic, Rolls-Royce, Xerox, and many others. Sessions covered a broad range of industries including Aerospace, Automotive, Civil Engineering, Defense, Energy, High Tech, Life Sciences, and more.
Keynote Dr. Jayaraman (Siva) Sivakumar, engineering group manager for General Motors Powertrain, described how the effective use of state-of-the-art simulation at the system, sub-system and component level enables GM to deliver powertrains that save fuel and improve the performance of cars and trucks.
BD is a distinct leader in the medical manufacturing industry as the company adopted the use of Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) tools approximately 25 years ago to optimize medical product manufacturability and performance. Anita Bestelmeyer, CAE manager for BD, discussed how her team is utilizing SIMULIA realistic simulation technologies to help deliver optimal, robust and high-quality products to the market faster and at a reduced cost.
Benoît Guillaume, numerical optimization expert for PSA Peugeot Citroën, outlined the deployment of their Automation and Optimization Platform, which is based on SIMULIA’s Isight and SIMULIA Execution Engine software. The objective of the platform is to improve operational efficiency and capitalize on best practices.
“The record number of paper submissions this year demonstrates the high value our customers place on sharing their experience at our annual gathering of realistic simulation thought-leaders,” says Ken Short, VP of Strategy and Marketing, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “Leading this outstanding roster of presenters, Siva, Anita, and Benoît provided insight into how their companies are using realistic simulation to gain a competitive advantage by exploring and improving the real-world performance, safety, and quality of their products.”
CD-adapco and Microsoft were the Premier Sponsors of the 2011 SCC. They were joined in the Partner Exhibition by 20 other SIMULIA partner sponsors including Anybody Technology, AVL List GmbH, BETA CAE Systems, CAPVIDIA, Cenaero, Core Tech System Co., Ltd., DatapointLabs, e-Xstream engineering SA, Fraunhofer Institute SCAI, Fujitsu, Granta Design, Intel, JSOL Corporation, LMS International, NVIDIA Corporation, Northwest Numerics & Modeling, Platform Computing, Safe Technology Ltd., Silicon Graphics, Inc., Simpleware Ltd., and Zentech International Ltd.
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May 19, 2011
Mar 29, 2011
Dassault Systèmes Helps National Taiwan University Improve Electric Car Design with CATIA and SIMULIA Solutions
Saving Time and Optimizing Product Performance with CATIA and Abaqus FEA.
Dassault Systèmes announced today that the FORMOSUN research team of National Taiwan University has designed and built electric vehicles with the help of CATIA for virtual design and Abaqus Finite Element Analysis (FEA) from SIMULIA for virtual testing.
Since 2000, the engineering department at National Taiwan University has been researching and developing electric vehicles for a sustainable future. From the ground up, undergraduate and graduate students of the FORMOSUN team have designed and developed three solar cars, one hybrid fuel cell scooter, an intelligent personal lightweight electric vehicle (iPLEV), and an electric passenger car.
“Students with limited experience are not fully capable of performing difficult design and engineering tasks,” said Dr. Jung-Ho Cheng of National Taiwan University. “However, with the help of CATIA and Abaqus FEA software, our students have the opportunity to tackle all of the design and analysis problems more efficiently.”
Beyond fundamental structural and thermal analyses with Abaqus FEA, the team utilized an optimization tool to streamline the analysis process for future designs and leverage the open functionality in Abaqus/CAE for improving usability by less experienced students. CATIA for virtual design, and Abaqus for realistic simulation, have been used to create lightweight designs of electric vehicle chassis, structures and electric motors.
“By applying robust realistic simulation solutions, the students at National Taiwan University have challenged themselves to design eco-conscious cars with better efficiency and reliability,” stated Ken Short, VP, Strategy and Marketing, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “These ‘future’ cars are emerging on the market faster through the use of virtual design and virtual testing solutions that accelerate the delivery of innovative products.”
Dassault Systèmes announced today that the FORMOSUN research team of National Taiwan University has designed and built electric vehicles with the help of CATIA for virtual design and Abaqus Finite Element Analysis (FEA) from SIMULIA for virtual testing.
Since 2000, the engineering department at National Taiwan University has been researching and developing electric vehicles for a sustainable future. From the ground up, undergraduate and graduate students of the FORMOSUN team have designed and developed three solar cars, one hybrid fuel cell scooter, an intelligent personal lightweight electric vehicle (iPLEV), and an electric passenger car.
“Students with limited experience are not fully capable of performing difficult design and engineering tasks,” said Dr. Jung-Ho Cheng of National Taiwan University. “However, with the help of CATIA and Abaqus FEA software, our students have the opportunity to tackle all of the design and analysis problems more efficiently.”
Beyond fundamental structural and thermal analyses with Abaqus FEA, the team utilized an optimization tool to streamline the analysis process for future designs and leverage the open functionality in Abaqus/CAE for improving usability by less experienced students. CATIA for virtual design, and Abaqus for realistic simulation, have been used to create lightweight designs of electric vehicle chassis, structures and electric motors.
“By applying robust realistic simulation solutions, the students at National Taiwan University have challenged themselves to design eco-conscious cars with better efficiency and reliability,” stated Ken Short, VP, Strategy and Marketing, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “These ‘future’ cars are emerging on the market faster through the use of virtual design and virtual testing solutions that accelerate the delivery of innovative products.”
Mar 14, 2011
NAFEMS Partners with SIMULIA for NAFEMS World Congress
NAFEMS, the International Association for the Engineering Analysis Community, has announced that SIMULIA, the Dassault Systèmes brand that delivers a scalable portfolio of Realistic Simulation solutions, will be Principal Sponsor of the NAFEMS World Congress.
The 2011 World Congress, being held in Boston, MA, USA between May 23rd and 26th will include over 150 presentations in more than 40 sessions over three days, representing the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of analysis and simulation specific papers available from one independent, international event.
“We are delighted to welcome SIMULIA as Principal Sponsor of our biennial World Congress”, commented David Quinn, Head of Marketing & Communications at NAFEMS. “For the past three congresses, we have received a great deal of support from Simulia, and we look forward to having them on board for the event in Boston this year”.
With additional sponsorship coming from Autodesk, CEI Ensight, Siemens, ESI Group, Simpack, Simmetrix, MSC Software, ANSYS and LMS, with support from Desktop Engineering as Media Partner, the importance of the World Congress for the simulation and analysis community is plain to see. “Delegates and presenters travel from around the world to attend the NAFEMS Congress”, Quinn continued. “The calibre of papers and presentations, combined with the training courses and workshops included in the delegate fee, gives attendees an unrivalled insight into the state-of-the-art and state-of-practise from every corner of the analysis community. We truly believe that this is an unmissable event for anyone involved in analysis and simulation at any level”.
“SIMULIA continues to be the Principal Sponsor of the 2011 NAFEMS Global Congress, because we share a common vision and pioneering spirit with our international community for advancing the capabilities and business value of simulation technology,” stated Ken Short, VP Strategy & Marketing, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “We are not only focused on enhancing the capabilities of Abaqus FEA software, we are also committed to inventing new technology and methods that enables engineers and researchers to accelerate the exploration of real-world physical behavior of materials and products in order to improve performance, safety, and quality of life.”
As many as 6 parallel tracks will run over the three days of the Congress, covering topics including;
* Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
* Optimization
* Integration
* Composites
* Materials
* Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
* Fatigue & Fracture
* Geotechnics
* Multi-Body Systems (MBS)
* Industrial Applications
* Business Benefits
* Dynamics & Testing
* Education
* Analysis Management
* Simulation Data Management
* Seismic Analysis
* High Performance Computing (HPC)
* Business Benefits of Simulation
* ...and many more
A number of short-courses will be available free to all delegates, as well as several workshops and special sessions on specific topics.
The NAFEMS World Congress is the only event dedicated to showcasing the state-of-the-art and state-of-practice in the simulation world in an impartial forum, open to everyone with an interest in how to get the most from their use of simulation.
Visit the Congress website at www.nafems.org/congress to find out more, and to register.
The 2011 World Congress, being held in Boston, MA, USA between May 23rd and 26th will include over 150 presentations in more than 40 sessions over three days, representing the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of analysis and simulation specific papers available from one independent, international event.
“We are delighted to welcome SIMULIA as Principal Sponsor of our biennial World Congress”, commented David Quinn, Head of Marketing & Communications at NAFEMS. “For the past three congresses, we have received a great deal of support from Simulia, and we look forward to having them on board for the event in Boston this year”.
With additional sponsorship coming from Autodesk, CEI Ensight, Siemens, ESI Group, Simpack, Simmetrix, MSC Software, ANSYS and LMS, with support from Desktop Engineering as Media Partner, the importance of the World Congress for the simulation and analysis community is plain to see. “Delegates and presenters travel from around the world to attend the NAFEMS Congress”, Quinn continued. “The calibre of papers and presentations, combined with the training courses and workshops included in the delegate fee, gives attendees an unrivalled insight into the state-of-the-art and state-of-practise from every corner of the analysis community. We truly believe that this is an unmissable event for anyone involved in analysis and simulation at any level”.
“SIMULIA continues to be the Principal Sponsor of the 2011 NAFEMS Global Congress, because we share a common vision and pioneering spirit with our international community for advancing the capabilities and business value of simulation technology,” stated Ken Short, VP Strategy & Marketing, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “We are not only focused on enhancing the capabilities of Abaqus FEA software, we are also committed to inventing new technology and methods that enables engineers and researchers to accelerate the exploration of real-world physical behavior of materials and products in order to improve performance, safety, and quality of life.”
As many as 6 parallel tracks will run over the three days of the Congress, covering topics including;
* Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
* Optimization
* Integration
* Composites
* Materials
* Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
* Fatigue & Fracture
* Geotechnics
* Multi-Body Systems (MBS)
* Industrial Applications
* Business Benefits
* Dynamics & Testing
* Education
* Analysis Management
* Simulation Data Management
* Seismic Analysis
* High Performance Computing (HPC)
* Business Benefits of Simulation
* ...and many more
A number of short-courses will be available free to all delegates, as well as several workshops and special sessions on specific topics.
The NAFEMS World Congress is the only event dedicated to showcasing the state-of-the-art and state-of-practice in the simulation world in an impartial forum, open to everyone with an interest in how to get the most from their use of simulation.
Visit the Congress website at www.nafems.org/congress to find out more, and to register.
May 26, 2010
Dassault Systèmes Announces New Release of Isight for Simulation Automation and Design Optimization from SIMULIA
VÉLIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France — Dassault Systèmes today announced the release of Isight 4.5, the market-leading simulation process automation and design optimization solution from their SIMULIA brand, as well as the SIMULIA Execution Engine (formerly Fiper) 4.5 for executing Isight simulation process flows across computing resources.
Isight provides designers, engineers, and researchers with an open system for integrating design and simulation models, created with various CAD, CAE and other software applications, to automate the execution of hundreds or even thousands of simulations. It allows designers to save time and improve designs by optimizing against performance or cost variables through statistical methods such as Design of Experiments or Design for Six Sigma.
Several SIMULIA customers presented their successful use of Isight at the 2010 SIMULIA Customer Conference (SCC), including: Baker Hughes, General Dynamics–Electric Boat, Halliburton Landmark, INERGY Automotive Systems Research, Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center, and Rolls-Royce.
In their SCC presentation, engineers from Baker Hughes, a top-tier oilfield services company, shared their experience in using Isight with Abaqus to optimize downhole expandable tubulars. “Historically, at least two months of analysis had been required to ascertain an acceptable geometry,” stated Jeff Williams, project engineer, Baker Hughes Inc. “With Isight, the development period was reduced to two days.”
Isight 4.5 provides new scalable parallel algorithms for leveraging multicore computing resources, enhanced approximation and reliability methods to evaluate product performance across a range of real-world operating variables, improvements to multi-objective optimization, and data mining which provides deeper insight into performance attribute tradeoffs.
Users of SIMULIA’s Abaqus Unified FEA will benefit from a new licensing policy that dramatically reduces the cost for using SIMULIA’s Abaqus Unified FEA in automated design studies with Isight. Using the combination of these products allows customers to reduce their Abaqus token usage as much as 60%.
“The new features and enhancements in Isight 4.5 will enable our customers to explore design options that were previously impossible, due to time and cost constraints,” stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “By leveraging the new parallel algorithm and optimization features in Isight combined with the distributed computing capabilities of Simulation Execution Engine, our customers will be able to evaluate more design alternatives in less time, resulting in better products at a lower cost.”
Isight provides designers, engineers, and researchers with an open system for integrating design and simulation models, created with various CAD, CAE and other software applications, to automate the execution of hundreds or even thousands of simulations. It allows designers to save time and improve designs by optimizing against performance or cost variables through statistical methods such as Design of Experiments or Design for Six Sigma.
Several SIMULIA customers presented their successful use of Isight at the 2010 SIMULIA Customer Conference (SCC), including: Baker Hughes, General Dynamics–Electric Boat, Halliburton Landmark, INERGY Automotive Systems Research, Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center, and Rolls-Royce.
In their SCC presentation, engineers from Baker Hughes, a top-tier oilfield services company, shared their experience in using Isight with Abaqus to optimize downhole expandable tubulars. “Historically, at least two months of analysis had been required to ascertain an acceptable geometry,” stated Jeff Williams, project engineer, Baker Hughes Inc. “With Isight, the development period was reduced to two days.”
Isight 4.5 provides new scalable parallel algorithms for leveraging multicore computing resources, enhanced approximation and reliability methods to evaluate product performance across a range of real-world operating variables, improvements to multi-objective optimization, and data mining which provides deeper insight into performance attribute tradeoffs.
Users of SIMULIA’s Abaqus Unified FEA will benefit from a new licensing policy that dramatically reduces the cost for using SIMULIA’s Abaqus Unified FEA in automated design studies with Isight. Using the combination of these products allows customers to reduce their Abaqus token usage as much as 60%.
“The new features and enhancements in Isight 4.5 will enable our customers to explore design options that were previously impossible, due to time and cost constraints,” stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “By leveraging the new parallel algorithm and optimization features in Isight combined with the distributed computing capabilities of Simulation Execution Engine, our customers will be able to evaluate more design alternatives in less time, resulting in better products at a lower cost.”
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BMW Group Selects SIMULIA Solutions for Passive Safety
VÉLIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France — Dassault Systèmes has announced that, as an extension to the recent new five-year partnership with Dassault Systèmes, BMW Group has renewed their commitment to use Abaqus Unified FEA (finite element analysis) software for the engineering of passive safety in the automaker’s virtual design process.
Ongoing optimization of vehicle development processes at BMW for passive safety requires continuous advances in the ability to accurately predict real-world behavior. The renewed partnership with SIMULIA follows extensive evaluations carried out by BMW over several months, ranging from component-level to full-vehicle simulations and involving key applications in car body technology as well as occupant restraint systems. Their evaluation results showed that Abaqus FEA consistently delivered a higher level of predictiveness and repeatability against physical tests than other simulation software that they evaluated. This robustness and reliability is critical as BMW moves toward a more efficient and cost-effective virtual vehicle development process that depends less and less on physical prototyping and testing.
“This announcement represents an endorsement of our continuous investment in R&D and focus on providing the most reliably predictive finite element technology available today,” stated Ken Short, VP, Strategy and Marketing, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “The automotive industry is emerging from a challenging economic situation, and those companies with significant competitive advantages will be positioned well to come back faster and stronger than before. We believe that Abaqus Unified FEA can help our customers reduce time and cost in meeting increasingly rigorous standards for crashworthiness and occupant safety.”
BMW first began employing Abaqus as its exclusive tool for crash simulation in 2004, when vehicle development projects were largely supported by hardware testing and the focus of simulation was on global vehicle behavior. More recently, BMW has begun a strategic shift toward a more complete virtual development process. This strategy involves a greater reliance on the accuracy of highly detailed simulations including material rupture and failure of spot weld connections, but integrated within the scope of large, complex full-vehicle simulations. The strong correlation between physical test and simulation results obtained with Abaqus is enabling BMW to achieve its aggressive process improvement goals, resulting in substantial cost and time savings for each vehicle project, while meeting stringent safety requirements.
Ongoing optimization of vehicle development processes at BMW for passive safety requires continuous advances in the ability to accurately predict real-world behavior. The renewed partnership with SIMULIA follows extensive evaluations carried out by BMW over several months, ranging from component-level to full-vehicle simulations and involving key applications in car body technology as well as occupant restraint systems. Their evaluation results showed that Abaqus FEA consistently delivered a higher level of predictiveness and repeatability against physical tests than other simulation software that they evaluated. This robustness and reliability is critical as BMW moves toward a more efficient and cost-effective virtual vehicle development process that depends less and less on physical prototyping and testing.
“This announcement represents an endorsement of our continuous investment in R&D and focus on providing the most reliably predictive finite element technology available today,” stated Ken Short, VP, Strategy and Marketing, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “The automotive industry is emerging from a challenging economic situation, and those companies with significant competitive advantages will be positioned well to come back faster and stronger than before. We believe that Abaqus Unified FEA can help our customers reduce time and cost in meeting increasingly rigorous standards for crashworthiness and occupant safety.”
BMW first began employing Abaqus as its exclusive tool for crash simulation in 2004, when vehicle development projects were largely supported by hardware testing and the focus of simulation was on global vehicle behavior. More recently, BMW has begun a strategic shift toward a more complete virtual development process. This strategy involves a greater reliance on the accuracy of highly detailed simulations including material rupture and failure of spot weld connections, but integrated within the scope of large, complex full-vehicle simulations. The strong correlation between physical test and simulation results obtained with Abaqus is enabling BMW to achieve its aggressive process improvement goals, resulting in substantial cost and time savings for each vehicle project, while meeting stringent safety requirements.
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May 24, 2010
Dassault Systèmes Announces New Multiphysics Technology in Abaqus Release 6.10 from SIMULIA
Native Computational Fluid Dynamics Capability for Fluid-Structure Interaction, Plus More than 100 Customer-Driven Enhancements.
VÉLIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France — Dassault Systèmes today announced the availability of Abaqus 6.10, the leading unified Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and multiphysics product suite for realistic simulation from SIMULIA.
In response to expanding industry demand for realistic simulation, the new release delivers on more than 100 customer-requested enhancements for modeling, performance, usability, visualization, multiphysics, and core mechanics. Designers, engineers, and researchers in all industries can now perform virtual tests that more accurately predict real-world behavior of materials and product designs, allowing them to improve product performance while reducing development time and cost.
Abaqus 6.10 introduces a new multiphysics capability for performing Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation. This enables users to perform coupled physics simulations with Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit, such as fluid-structure interaction between human tissue, a medical device, and fluid flow; thermal analysis of electronic systems undergoing convection cooling; or transient thermal analysis of engine exhaust systems.
“In order to simulate performance of engine components in a closer-to-reality environment, we are pleased that Abaqus 6.10 provides the Computational Fluid Dynamic capabilities for fluid-structure interaction which will enable us to perform accurate fluid and solid co-simulations,” said Dr. Fred Yang, technical leader of bearing analysis from Federal-Mogul Powertrain Sealing and Bearings Group USA. “The new solution certainly gives us significant enhancements to explore multiphysics interaction in our designs and optimize our products to reduce engine power loss and lower overall material costs.”
The release also reinforces SIMULIA’s commitment to providing an open multiphysics platform through improvements to its direct co-simulation coupling interface. This capability allows SIMULIA partners and customers to couple their applications directly with Abaqus for best-in-class multiphysics simulation.
With this release, SIMULIA also extends its leadership in the simulation software industry by delivering innovative technology for realistic fracture and failure analysis. Abaqus 6.10 features enhancements to its extended finite element method (XFEM) that improves the process for modeling fracture of composite materials. It also provides dramatic performance improvements for parallel processing of simulations that use XFEM, or the implicit dynamic procedure, allowing more simulations to be performed in less time.
“It is important to use the best technologies and methods available to assess the safety of nuclear power plant components," stated Dipl.-Ing. Axel Schulz, TÜV Nord. "The XFEM capabilities in Abaqus 6.10 will make it easier to perform virtual safety evaluations of nuclear power plant piping systems and pressure vessels. With this new release, realistic simulation of crack propagation based on both the cohesive segments method and linear elastic fracture mechanics is now feasible, while using the implicit dynamic procedure for improved stability.”
“Responding to our customers’ requests for new and improved capabilities is the key to our strategy of providing the most robust realistic simulation solutions possible while ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction,” stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “With Abaqus 6.10, we delivered more than one hundred customer requested enhancements including a unique solution to quickly generate mid-surfaces of thin parts in Abaqus/CAE. This release continues our commitment to enhancing our core mechanics and developing new and industry-leading multiphysics technology that helps our customers become more productive and efficient in evaluating and improving product performance.”
Abaqus 6.10 will be featured at the 2010 SIMULIA Customer Conference (SCC), May 24-27, in Providence, Rhode Island. Microsoft and CD-adapco are the premier sponsors of the SCC, which will host more than 400 attendees from world-leading manufacturing companies.
VÉLIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France — Dassault Systèmes today announced the availability of Abaqus 6.10, the leading unified Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and multiphysics product suite for realistic simulation from SIMULIA.
In response to expanding industry demand for realistic simulation, the new release delivers on more than 100 customer-requested enhancements for modeling, performance, usability, visualization, multiphysics, and core mechanics. Designers, engineers, and researchers in all industries can now perform virtual tests that more accurately predict real-world behavior of materials and product designs, allowing them to improve product performance while reducing development time and cost.
Abaqus 6.10 introduces a new multiphysics capability for performing Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation. This enables users to perform coupled physics simulations with Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit, such as fluid-structure interaction between human tissue, a medical device, and fluid flow; thermal analysis of electronic systems undergoing convection cooling; or transient thermal analysis of engine exhaust systems.
“In order to simulate performance of engine components in a closer-to-reality environment, we are pleased that Abaqus 6.10 provides the Computational Fluid Dynamic capabilities for fluid-structure interaction which will enable us to perform accurate fluid and solid co-simulations,” said Dr. Fred Yang, technical leader of bearing analysis from Federal-Mogul Powertrain Sealing and Bearings Group USA. “The new solution certainly gives us significant enhancements to explore multiphysics interaction in our designs and optimize our products to reduce engine power loss and lower overall material costs.”
The release also reinforces SIMULIA’s commitment to providing an open multiphysics platform through improvements to its direct co-simulation coupling interface. This capability allows SIMULIA partners and customers to couple their applications directly with Abaqus for best-in-class multiphysics simulation.
With this release, SIMULIA also extends its leadership in the simulation software industry by delivering innovative technology for realistic fracture and failure analysis. Abaqus 6.10 features enhancements to its extended finite element method (XFEM) that improves the process for modeling fracture of composite materials. It also provides dramatic performance improvements for parallel processing of simulations that use XFEM, or the implicit dynamic procedure, allowing more simulations to be performed in less time.
“It is important to use the best technologies and methods available to assess the safety of nuclear power plant components," stated Dipl.-Ing. Axel Schulz, TÜV Nord. "The XFEM capabilities in Abaqus 6.10 will make it easier to perform virtual safety evaluations of nuclear power plant piping systems and pressure vessels. With this new release, realistic simulation of crack propagation based on both the cohesive segments method and linear elastic fracture mechanics is now feasible, while using the implicit dynamic procedure for improved stability.”
“Responding to our customers’ requests for new and improved capabilities is the key to our strategy of providing the most robust realistic simulation solutions possible while ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction,” stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “With Abaqus 6.10, we delivered more than one hundred customer requested enhancements including a unique solution to quickly generate mid-surfaces of thin parts in Abaqus/CAE. This release continues our commitment to enhancing our core mechanics and developing new and industry-leading multiphysics technology that helps our customers become more productive and efficient in evaluating and improving product performance.”
Abaqus 6.10 will be featured at the 2010 SIMULIA Customer Conference (SCC), May 24-27, in Providence, Rhode Island. Microsoft and CD-adapco are the premier sponsors of the SCC, which will host more than 400 attendees from world-leading manufacturing companies.
Apr 28, 2010
Sim3 Engineering Consulting Partners with Dassault Systèmes to Offer SIMULIA Solutions
CHICAGO - Sim3 Engineering Consulting, a division of Graphics Systems Corp., announced today that it has partnered with Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, to provide the leading simulation software package from SIMULIA, to companies that need to simulate the real-world behaviors of their products, materials and processes. Simulation has become an important part of the product design and development process, as it helps organizations lower costs by reducing physical prototypes and improve product performance by identifying potential problems early in the development process.
“By partnering with Dassault Systèmes to provide SIMULIA solutions, Sim3 offers a complete solution for realistic simulation. In today’s competitive marketplace the ability to virtually test designs quickly and accurately, prior to committing to costly prototype development and physical testing, is more important than ever before. With SIMULIA solutions, we expand to further help companies create safer and more efficient products,” said Dave Kasinskas, president of Sim3 Engineering Consulting.
Designers, engineers, and researchers in a broad range of industries use SIMULIA’s scalable simulation solutions. The Abaqus product suite from SIMULIA offers companies unified Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and multiphysics solutions for insight into challenging engineering problems.
“The Sim3 team has a strong background in simulation and a passion for helping companies improve their products,” said Scott Berkey, CEO, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “Dassault Systèmes is excited to work closely with Sim3 to offer a simulation solution that lowers development costs and accelerates innovation for companies.”
Sim3 and Dassault Systèmes are showcasing SIMULIA solutions at the Design2Part Tradeshow in Schaumburg, IL April 27-28, 2010.
“By partnering with Dassault Systèmes to provide SIMULIA solutions, Sim3 offers a complete solution for realistic simulation. In today’s competitive marketplace the ability to virtually test designs quickly and accurately, prior to committing to costly prototype development and physical testing, is more important than ever before. With SIMULIA solutions, we expand to further help companies create safer and more efficient products,” said Dave Kasinskas, president of Sim3 Engineering Consulting.
Designers, engineers, and researchers in a broad range of industries use SIMULIA’s scalable simulation solutions. The Abaqus product suite from SIMULIA offers companies unified Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and multiphysics solutions for insight into challenging engineering problems.
“The Sim3 team has a strong background in simulation and a passion for helping companies improve their products,” said Scott Berkey, CEO, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “Dassault Systèmes is excited to work closely with Sim3 to offer a simulation solution that lowers development costs and accelerates innovation for companies.”
Sim3 and Dassault Systèmes are showcasing SIMULIA solutions at the Design2Part Tradeshow in Schaumburg, IL April 27-28, 2010.
Feb 22, 2010
ExxonMobil and Tetra Pak to Highlight 2010 SIMULIA Customer Conference
PROVIDENCE, R.I - Dassault Systèmes today announced that keynote addresses from ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company and Tetra Pak will highlight the SIMULIA Customer Conference (SCC) being held May 25-27, 2010, in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Keynote speakers, Bruce A. Dale, senior consultant, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company and Mattias Olsson, Ph.D, manager, Virtual Engineering, Tetra Pak, will provide insights into how realistic simulation is being used by their respective companies to drive research and product innovation. Mr. Dale’s presentation will highlight technical achievements from ExxonMobil’s three-decade history of using SIMULIA’s Abaqus FEA to enable engineering advancements in the upstream oil & gas industry. Dr. Olsson will share Tetra Pak’s experience in using realistic simulation solutions from Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA brand to develop innovative product packaging for delivering liquid food products to global consumers at a low price while extending shelf-life and ensuring safety.
“Our customers are passionate about sharing their experiences in using realistic simulation to achieve business benefits and deliver innovative products that improve society and our daily life,” stated Ken Short, VP, Strategy and Marketing, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “Those attending our international conference will gain unique insights from Mattias and Bruce on how their respective companies are improving the world we live in by creating innovative solutions for affordable, safe food packaging and cleaner, more efficient energy production.”
The 2010 SCC will showcase presentations by engineers representing more than 70 international manufacturing and research organizations, including Cordis Corporation, Halliburton, Honda R&D, Kimberly-Clark, Medtronic, Michelin R&D, NOKIA, PSA Peugeot, Rolls-Royce, Verney Yachts, and many others. Sessions will include topics on fracture and failure, nonlinear analysis, multiphysics, process automation, design optimization, Simulation Lifecycle Management, and more.
CD-adapco is the Premier Sponsor of the 2010 SCC and there will be more than 20 Exhibitor Sponsors including: ACUSIM Software, BETA CAE Systems, Bodie Technology, CAPVIDIA, Collier Research - HyperSizer, e-Xstream engineering SA, FE-Design GmbH, Firehole Technology, Fraunhofer Institute SCAI, Global Engineering & Materials, Granta Design, GRM Consulting Ltd., LMS International, Northwest Numerics & Modeling, Quest Integrity Group, Safe Technology, and Software Cradle.
Keynote speakers, Bruce A. Dale, senior consultant, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company and Mattias Olsson, Ph.D, manager, Virtual Engineering, Tetra Pak, will provide insights into how realistic simulation is being used by their respective companies to drive research and product innovation. Mr. Dale’s presentation will highlight technical achievements from ExxonMobil’s three-decade history of using SIMULIA’s Abaqus FEA to enable engineering advancements in the upstream oil & gas industry. Dr. Olsson will share Tetra Pak’s experience in using realistic simulation solutions from Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA brand to develop innovative product packaging for delivering liquid food products to global consumers at a low price while extending shelf-life and ensuring safety.
“Our customers are passionate about sharing their experiences in using realistic simulation to achieve business benefits and deliver innovative products that improve society and our daily life,” stated Ken Short, VP, Strategy and Marketing, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “Those attending our international conference will gain unique insights from Mattias and Bruce on how their respective companies are improving the world we live in by creating innovative solutions for affordable, safe food packaging and cleaner, more efficient energy production.”
The 2010 SCC will showcase presentations by engineers representing more than 70 international manufacturing and research organizations, including Cordis Corporation, Halliburton, Honda R&D, Kimberly-Clark, Medtronic, Michelin R&D, NOKIA, PSA Peugeot, Rolls-Royce, Verney Yachts, and many others. Sessions will include topics on fracture and failure, nonlinear analysis, multiphysics, process automation, design optimization, Simulation Lifecycle Management, and more.
CD-adapco is the Premier Sponsor of the 2010 SCC and there will be more than 20 Exhibitor Sponsors including: ACUSIM Software, BETA CAE Systems, Bodie Technology, CAPVIDIA, Collier Research - HyperSizer, e-Xstream engineering SA, FE-Design GmbH, Firehole Technology, Fraunhofer Institute SCAI, Global Engineering & Materials, Granta Design, GRM Consulting Ltd., LMS International, Northwest Numerics & Modeling, Quest Integrity Group, Safe Technology, and Software Cradle.
Nov 25, 2009
Dassault Systèmes releases 'Abaqus 6.9 Extended Functionality' FEA from SIMULIA
Paris – Dassault Systèmes 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 Systèmes. "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.
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 Systèmes. "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.
Sep 17, 2009
Collier Research's HyperSizer Software & Simulia's Abaqus FEA Software combination used on NASA's Ares V Space Lanch Vehicle
Hampton, VA — Collier Research Corporation, developer of HyperSizer structural sizing software, has joined the SIMULIA partner ecosystem and has released an interface between HyperSizer and Abaqus FEA that allows engineers to streamline the process of composite design optimization. The optimized design is reached through rapid iterations between HyperSizer and Abaqus.
“Our partnership with Collier Research enables us to better serve the aerospace, energy, and other industries that want to optimize their products earlier in the design phase,” commented Tom Battisti, Director of Alliances, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “We continually strive to provide our customers with the tools they need to bring better products to market in less time and at lower cost. That’s exactly what the combination of Abaqus and HyperSizer enables them to do.”
Most recently, this solution was used on the design of NASA’s Ares V space launch vehicle which makes significant use of composites. During flight, the shroud of the Ares V separates into four petals to release the lunar lander. In the design of this structure, the aerodynamic pressure on the shroud is resolved into internally distributed forces. Abaqus determines the load path/direction and how much load is in the stiffened panel and the ringframe. HyperSizer then analyzes or “sizes” the panels’ cross-sectional dimensions and layups to the Abaqus computed load, reducing structural weight, establishing margins of safety for all load cases and all potential failure modes, and creating the stress report for aircraft airworthiness certification,” says Craig Collier, President of Collier Research.
HyperSizer software verifies structural integrity with the required calculations to predict all potential failure modes for all load cases and identify negative margins of safety. HyperSizer optimizes, or “sizes,” a design by surveying millions of candidate dimensions and laminates, finding optimum variables down to the ply level in a matter of minutes. Abaqus analysis technology is used to perform implicit and explicit finite element analysis, including static, dynamic, impact, and thermal analyses, all powered with robust contact and nonlinear material options. Optimization using Abaqus and HyperSizer follows an iterative process that begins with the transfer of data from Abaqus’ initial model to HyperSizer and continues until a convergence of internal load paths is reached, yielding a fully optimized structure. The Ares V’s payload shroud structure serves as an example of this optimization.
“Our partnership with Collier Research enables us to better serve the aerospace, energy, and other industries that want to optimize their products earlier in the design phase,” commented Tom Battisti, Director of Alliances, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “We continually strive to provide our customers with the tools they need to bring better products to market in less time and at lower cost. That’s exactly what the combination of Abaqus and HyperSizer enables them to do.”
Most recently, this solution was used on the design of NASA’s Ares V space launch vehicle which makes significant use of composites. During flight, the shroud of the Ares V separates into four petals to release the lunar lander. In the design of this structure, the aerodynamic pressure on the shroud is resolved into internally distributed forces. Abaqus determines the load path/direction and how much load is in the stiffened panel and the ringframe. HyperSizer then analyzes or “sizes” the panels’ cross-sectional dimensions and layups to the Abaqus computed load, reducing structural weight, establishing margins of safety for all load cases and all potential failure modes, and creating the stress report for aircraft airworthiness certification,” says Craig Collier, President of Collier Research.
HyperSizer software verifies structural integrity with the required calculations to predict all potential failure modes for all load cases and identify negative margins of safety. HyperSizer optimizes, or “sizes,” a design by surveying millions of candidate dimensions and laminates, finding optimum variables down to the ply level in a matter of minutes. Abaqus analysis technology is used to perform implicit and explicit finite element analysis, including static, dynamic, impact, and thermal analyses, all powered with robust contact and nonlinear material options. Optimization using Abaqus and HyperSizer follows an iterative process that begins with the transfer of data from Abaqus’ initial model to HyperSizer and continues until a convergence of internal load paths is reached, yielding a fully optimized structure. The Ares V’s payload shroud structure serves as an example of this optimization.
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May 19, 2009
Dassault Systèmes Announces New Release of Abaqus FEA from SIMULIA
Abaqus 6.9 Offers New Capabilities for Fracture and Failure, High-Performance Computing, and Noise and Vibration.
PARIS & PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Paris:DSY)(NASDAQ:DASTY), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of Abaqus 6.9, its technology-leading unified finite element analysis (FEA) product suite from SIMULIA.
Abaqus is used by designers, engineers, and researchers in a broad range of industries, including electronics, consumer packaged goods, aerospace, automotive, energy, and life sciences to evaluate real-world behavior of materials, products, and manufacturing processes. This release delivers key new capabilities for fracture and failure, high-performance computing, and noise and vibration. In addition, SIMULIA is continuing to enrich the product suite with capabilities for modeling, meshing, contact, materials, and multiphysics.
“In order to meet today’s fast-paced development requirements, up-front simulation techniques play a major role,” states Frank Popielas, Manager Advanced Engineering, Sealing Products Group, Dana Holding Corporation. “The synergy between Abaqus 6.9 and high-performance computing clusters will help us minimize the unit cost and retain optimal turn-around time.”
“By working closely with our customers on the definition and review of new functionality, we have developed the most robust finite element analysis software available,” stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “Abaqus 6.9 provides manufacturing companies with the ability to consolidate their nonlinear and linear analysis processes within a unified FEA environment.”
Release Highlights:
* The Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) has been implemented in Abaqus and provides a powerful tool for simulating crack growth along arbitrary paths that do not correspond to element boundaries. In the aerospace industry, XFEM can be used in combination with other Abaqus capabilities to predict the durability and damage tolerance of composite aircraft structures. In the energy industry, it can assist in evaluating the onset and growth of cracks in pressure vessels.
* The general contact implementation offers a simplified and highly automated method for defining contact interactions in a model. This capability provides substantial efficiency improvements in modeling complex assemblies such as gear systems, hydraulic cylinders, or other products that have parts that come into contact.
* A new cosimulation method allows users to combine the Abaqus implicit and explicit solvers into a single simulation—substantially reducing computation time. For example, automotive engineers can now combine a substructure representation of a vehicle body with a model of the tires and suspension systems to evaluate the durability of a vehicle running over a pothole.
* Abaqus/CAE provides faster, more robust meshing and powerful results visualization techniques.
* Enhanced performance of the AMS eigensolver significantly improves the efficiency of large-scale linear dynamics workflows used for applications such as automotive noise and vibration analyses.
* A new viscous shear model allows the simulation of non-Newtonian fluids such as blood, paste, molten polymers, and other fluids often used in consumer product and industrial applications.
PARIS & PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Paris:DSY)(NASDAQ:DASTY), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of Abaqus 6.9, its technology-leading unified finite element analysis (FEA) product suite from SIMULIA.
Abaqus is used by designers, engineers, and researchers in a broad range of industries, including electronics, consumer packaged goods, aerospace, automotive, energy, and life sciences to evaluate real-world behavior of materials, products, and manufacturing processes. This release delivers key new capabilities for fracture and failure, high-performance computing, and noise and vibration. In addition, SIMULIA is continuing to enrich the product suite with capabilities for modeling, meshing, contact, materials, and multiphysics.
“In order to meet today’s fast-paced development requirements, up-front simulation techniques play a major role,” states Frank Popielas, Manager Advanced Engineering, Sealing Products Group, Dana Holding Corporation. “The synergy between Abaqus 6.9 and high-performance computing clusters will help us minimize the unit cost and retain optimal turn-around time.”
“By working closely with our customers on the definition and review of new functionality, we have developed the most robust finite element analysis software available,” stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “Abaqus 6.9 provides manufacturing companies with the ability to consolidate their nonlinear and linear analysis processes within a unified FEA environment.”
Release Highlights:
* The Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) has been implemented in Abaqus and provides a powerful tool for simulating crack growth along arbitrary paths that do not correspond to element boundaries. In the aerospace industry, XFEM can be used in combination with other Abaqus capabilities to predict the durability and damage tolerance of composite aircraft structures. In the energy industry, it can assist in evaluating the onset and growth of cracks in pressure vessels.
* The general contact implementation offers a simplified and highly automated method for defining contact interactions in a model. This capability provides substantial efficiency improvements in modeling complex assemblies such as gear systems, hydraulic cylinders, or other products that have parts that come into contact.
* A new cosimulation method allows users to combine the Abaqus implicit and explicit solvers into a single simulation—substantially reducing computation time. For example, automotive engineers can now combine a substructure representation of a vehicle body with a model of the tires and suspension systems to evaluate the durability of a vehicle running over a pothole.
* Abaqus/CAE provides faster, more robust meshing and powerful results visualization techniques.
* Enhanced performance of the AMS eigensolver significantly improves the efficiency of large-scale linear dynamics workflows used for applications such as automotive noise and vibration analyses.
* A new viscous shear model allows the simulation of non-Newtonian fluids such as blood, paste, molten polymers, and other fluids often used in consumer product and industrial applications.
Apr 10, 2009
Dassault Systemes Announces New Solution to Improve Reliability of Welded Joints
Verity® for Abaqus from SIMULIA Leverages Battelle Technology for Nuclear Power, Oil & Gas and Heavy Machinery Applications.
PARIS & PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Dassault Systemes (DS) (Paris:DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of Verity® for Abaqus, from the DS SIMULIA brand, for simulating realistic structural stress in welded joints and other connections.
Verity® for Abaqus, a new add-on product for Abaqus FEA software, enables engineers to easily and accurately predict a consistent stress characterization for welded joints in industrial applications such as pressure vessels, piping, storage tanks, offshore platforms, and construction equipment. The new product is based on the Verity® mesh-insensitive structural stress method from Battelle, the world’s largest non-profit independent research and development organization.
In addition to welded joints, the Verity® structural stress method can also be applied to structures with geometrical notches such as adhesive joints, mechanically fastened joints, electronic packages, and manufacturing notches that exhibit stress concentrations due to loading. The method has been adopted in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Division 2 Code and API 579/ASME FFS-1 Codes for Fitness-for-Service assessments based on allowable stress methods and plastic collapse loads.
“Due to mesh sensitivities in finite element models, it is difficult for engineers to accurately characterize structural stress in welded joints and other discontinuities, and this often results in unreliable fatigue life prediction,” stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault Systemes. “By leveraging Battelle’s technology, Verity® for Abaqus provides a mesh-insensitive solution and enables engineers to improve reliability and safety of structures that use welds or other joining techniques such as soldering or brazing.”
In the nuclear power industry, Verity® for Abaqus helps engineers to more accurately evaluate weld performance of mission-critical components and systems such as pressure vessels to reduce maintenance and in-situ physical inspection. In the oil and gas industry, benefits include improved operational availability of physical systems such as pipelines and offshore structures. “The industry challenge of meeting regulations for structural stress of welded joints requires new technology and methods,” stated Spencer Pugh, Vice President for Battelle’s Industrial and International market sector. “By integrating our Verity® technology with Abaqus, SIMULIA is providing a unique simulation solution that enables companies to analyze accurate weld performance, lower development costs, and accelerate their design and implementation processes.”
Battelle is the world’s largest non-profit independent research and development organization, providing innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing needs through its four global businesses: Laboratory Management, National Security, Energy Technology, and Health and Life Sciences. It advances scientific discovery and application by conducting $5.2 billion in global R&D annually through contract research, laboratory management, and technology commercialization. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Battelle oversees 20,400 employees in more than 130 locations worldwide, including seven national laboratories which Battelle manages or co-manages for the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Battelle’s Global National Security business applies science and technology to solve complex technical challenges for the military services and federal agencies. Including the operations of national laboratories, Battelle annually performs nearly $1.6 billion in national security-related work contributing to advances in chemical and biological defense, homeland security, armor, technology refreshment, and undersea technology.
PARIS & PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Dassault Systemes (DS) (Paris:DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of Verity® for Abaqus, from the DS SIMULIA brand, for simulating realistic structural stress in welded joints and other connections.
Verity® for Abaqus, a new add-on product for Abaqus FEA software, enables engineers to easily and accurately predict a consistent stress characterization for welded joints in industrial applications such as pressure vessels, piping, storage tanks, offshore platforms, and construction equipment. The new product is based on the Verity® mesh-insensitive structural stress method from Battelle, the world’s largest non-profit independent research and development organization.
In addition to welded joints, the Verity® structural stress method can also be applied to structures with geometrical notches such as adhesive joints, mechanically fastened joints, electronic packages, and manufacturing notches that exhibit stress concentrations due to loading. The method has been adopted in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Division 2 Code and API 579/ASME FFS-1 Codes for Fitness-for-Service assessments based on allowable stress methods and plastic collapse loads.
“Due to mesh sensitivities in finite element models, it is difficult for engineers to accurately characterize structural stress in welded joints and other discontinuities, and this often results in unreliable fatigue life prediction,” stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault Systemes. “By leveraging Battelle’s technology, Verity® for Abaqus provides a mesh-insensitive solution and enables engineers to improve reliability and safety of structures that use welds or other joining techniques such as soldering or brazing.”
In the nuclear power industry, Verity® for Abaqus helps engineers to more accurately evaluate weld performance of mission-critical components and systems such as pressure vessels to reduce maintenance and in-situ physical inspection. In the oil and gas industry, benefits include improved operational availability of physical systems such as pipelines and offshore structures. “The industry challenge of meeting regulations for structural stress of welded joints requires new technology and methods,” stated Spencer Pugh, Vice President for Battelle’s Industrial and International market sector. “By integrating our Verity® technology with Abaqus, SIMULIA is providing a unique simulation solution that enables companies to analyze accurate weld performance, lower development costs, and accelerate their design and implementation processes.”
Battelle is the world’s largest non-profit independent research and development organization, providing innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing needs through its four global businesses: Laboratory Management, National Security, Energy Technology, and Health and Life Sciences. It advances scientific discovery and application by conducting $5.2 billion in global R&D annually through contract research, laboratory management, and technology commercialization. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Battelle oversees 20,400 employees in more than 130 locations worldwide, including seven national laboratories which Battelle manages or co-manages for the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Battelle’s Global National Security business applies science and technology to solve complex technical challenges for the military services and federal agencies. Including the operations of national laboratories, Battelle annually performs nearly $1.6 billion in national security-related work contributing to advances in chemical and biological defense, homeland security, armor, technology refreshment, and undersea technology.
Apr 8, 2009
Energy Innovations to Drive Down the Cost of Solar Energy with Realistic Simulation from Dassault Systemes
Abaqus FEA from SIMULIA Provides Robust Analysis Capabilities to Accelerate Innovations for Sustainable Living.
PARIS & PROVIDENCE, R.I - Dassault Systemes (DS) (Paris:DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that Energy Innovations, Inc., a developer of High Concentration Photovoltaic (HCPV) commercial solar products that maximize the capture of energy from the sun, is making the use of solar energy a more cost-effective and intelligent consumer investment with the help of Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from the DS SIMULIA® brand. Reducing the cost of solar energy is an important factor in encouraging its use and reducing CO2 emissions from electricity generated by fossil fuels.
Energy Innovations’ flagship product line, the Sunflower™ integrates photovoltaic modules, unique power optimization, an embedded controller and wireless communication to produce cost-competitive solar power. It also provides reduced installation and maintenance costs. The technology is the first and only solar concentrator to earn a UL (Underwriters Laboratories) listing. UL is the trusted resource across the globe for product safety certification and compliance solutions. - By using Abaqus FEA to simulate the effects of nonlinear materials and loads such as gravity, wind, and shipping loads on their designs, Energy Innovations has been able to optimize their unique concentrating photovoltaic design product.
“Abaqus FEA provides the usability and robustness we need to evaluate realistic performance during the design phase,” stated Mindy Jacobson, Lead Engineer, Energy Innovations. “By leveraging realistic simulation solutions from SIMULIA, we are able to develop the most cost-efficient design, which is helping us drive the price of solar-electricity below the price of fossil-fuel electricity.”
“We are dedicated to providing realistic simulation solutions that enable companies such as Energy Innovations to develop lower cost renewable energy products,” stated Ken Short, VP Strategy and Marketing, SIMULIA, Dassault Systemes. “Abaqus FEA offers proven analysis capabilities that are used to evaluate real-world performance earlier in the development cycle, thereby accelerating the delivery of innovative products that have a positive impact on our environment and society.”
Energy Innovations was founded in 2001 by entrepreneur and current CEO, Bill Gross, and has assembled a world-class team of experts in the fields of solar concentration and tracking to deliver cost-effective, grid-competitive solar electric power. The company is developing the Sunflower line of concentrated photovoltaic products with a focus on bringing the cost of solar below that of utility-supplied electricity.
PARIS & PROVIDENCE, R.I - Dassault Systemes (DS) (Paris:DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that Energy Innovations, Inc., a developer of High Concentration Photovoltaic (HCPV) commercial solar products that maximize the capture of energy from the sun, is making the use of solar energy a more cost-effective and intelligent consumer investment with the help of Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from the DS SIMULIA® brand. Reducing the cost of solar energy is an important factor in encouraging its use and reducing CO2 emissions from electricity generated by fossil fuels.
Energy Innovations’ flagship product line, the Sunflower™ integrates photovoltaic modules, unique power optimization, an embedded controller and wireless communication to produce cost-competitive solar power. It also provides reduced installation and maintenance costs. The technology is the first and only solar concentrator to earn a UL (Underwriters Laboratories) listing. UL is the trusted resource across the globe for product safety certification and compliance solutions. - By using Abaqus FEA to simulate the effects of nonlinear materials and loads such as gravity, wind, and shipping loads on their designs, Energy Innovations has been able to optimize their unique concentrating photovoltaic design product.
“Abaqus FEA provides the usability and robustness we need to evaluate realistic performance during the design phase,” stated Mindy Jacobson, Lead Engineer, Energy Innovations. “By leveraging realistic simulation solutions from SIMULIA, we are able to develop the most cost-efficient design, which is helping us drive the price of solar-electricity below the price of fossil-fuel electricity.”
“We are dedicated to providing realistic simulation solutions that enable companies such as Energy Innovations to develop lower cost renewable energy products,” stated Ken Short, VP Strategy and Marketing, SIMULIA, Dassault Systemes. “Abaqus FEA offers proven analysis capabilities that are used to evaluate real-world performance earlier in the development cycle, thereby accelerating the delivery of innovative products that have a positive impact on our environment and society.”
Energy Innovations was founded in 2001 by entrepreneur and current CEO, Bill Gross, and has assembled a world-class team of experts in the fields of solar concentration and tracking to deliver cost-effective, grid-competitive solar electric power. The company is developing the Sunflower line of concentrated photovoltaic products with a focus on bringing the cost of solar below that of utility-supplied electricity.
Mar 26, 2009
ASUSTek Computer, Inc. to Accelerate Electronic Product Innovation with Dassault Systèmes Realistic Simulation Solutions
Time and Cost Reduction Key to ASUS Selection of Abaqus FEA Software from SIMULIA.
PARIS & PROVIDENCE, R.I - Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Paris:DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY) , a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that ASUSTeK Computer, Inc. (ASUS), a leading manufacturer of consumer electronics, has selected Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA brand to accelerate innovative product design, performance, and reliability with realistic simulation solutions.
ASUS has won numerous awards for innovation and quality in the field of inboard computer components and peripherals and has ranked in BusinessWeek’s InfoTech 100 for 10 straight years. In 2007, one in three desktop PCs sold was powered by an ASUS motherboard. The addition of Abaqus FEA to their product development process will allow ASUS to significantly reduce time and costs while maintaining their focus on excellence.
“The extremely quick pace of innovation, particularly in the electronic industry, makes it critical to diminish time-to-market as much as possible,” stated Benson Chan, Manager, Analysis Design Section, Mechanical & Industrial Design Center, ASUS. “Abaqus FEA will enable our engineering teams to reduce costly, time consuming physical tests by using virtual simulations such as mobile phone drop, twisting, bending simulation, hinge-operating simulation, pressure-on-NB cover simulation, and others.”
“Our number one goal is to help our customers be more successful by providing the most reliable and realistic simulation technology as well as the best services and support in the industry,” stated Ken Short, VP Strategy and Marketing, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “By selecting Abaqus FEA, ASUS is affirming that our robust simulation solutions will give them a competitive advantage by enabling ASUS to evaluate product performance faster and more affordably.”
SIMULIA is the Dassault Systèmes 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.
PARIS & PROVIDENCE, R.I - Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Paris:DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY) , a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that ASUSTeK Computer, Inc. (ASUS), a leading manufacturer of consumer electronics, has selected Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA brand to accelerate innovative product design, performance, and reliability with realistic simulation solutions.
ASUS has won numerous awards for innovation and quality in the field of inboard computer components and peripherals and has ranked in BusinessWeek’s InfoTech 100 for 10 straight years. In 2007, one in three desktop PCs sold was powered by an ASUS motherboard. The addition of Abaqus FEA to their product development process will allow ASUS to significantly reduce time and costs while maintaining their focus on excellence.
“The extremely quick pace of innovation, particularly in the electronic industry, makes it critical to diminish time-to-market as much as possible,” stated Benson Chan, Manager, Analysis Design Section, Mechanical & Industrial Design Center, ASUS. “Abaqus FEA will enable our engineering teams to reduce costly, time consuming physical tests by using virtual simulations such as mobile phone drop, twisting, bending simulation, hinge-operating simulation, pressure-on-NB cover simulation, and others.”
“Our number one goal is to help our customers be more successful by providing the most reliable and realistic simulation technology as well as the best services and support in the industry,” stated Ken Short, VP Strategy and Marketing, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “By selecting Abaqus FEA, ASUS is affirming that our robust simulation solutions will give them a competitive advantage by enabling ASUS to evaluate product performance faster and more affordably.”
SIMULIA is the Dassault Systèmes 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.
Mar 19, 2009
Procter & Gamble Selects Dassault Systemes as Enterprise Simulation Partner
SIMULIA SLM V6 Enables P&G to Increase Efficiency and Accelerate Innovation by Sharing Simulation Processes and Data
PARIS & PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Dassault Systemes (DS) (Paris:DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), the world’s largest consumer goods company, has selected SIMULIA SLM as their simulation lifecycle management solution to support P&G’s modeling & simulation strategy.
The announcement evolves the long-standing business relationship in the simulation domain from one of solution provider into a strategic, collaborative partnership. By working closely with SIMULIA, P&G will define critical SLM requirements and identify out-of-the-box capabilities that will be incorporated into the general SIMULIA SLM solution and adopted globally within P&G.
“P&G shares a common vision with SIMULIA regarding the democratization of predictive simulation,” said Tom Lange, Director, Corporate R&D Modeling and Simulation, Procter & Gamble. “It is our goal to make the benefits of realistic simulation available to a broader range of users than previously possible. SIMULIA SLM will help our global teams accelerate innovation by providing access to simulation tools, validated processes and corporate knowledge bases throughout the product lifecycle.”
Based on Dassault Systemes’ V6 platform, the online collaborative environment for PLM 2.0, SIMULIA SLM enables P&G to capture, share and automate the execution of approved simulation methods, improve traceability of simulation data, and accelerate decision-making while securing valuable intellectual property.
“We are pleased to have established a strategic relationship with Dassault Systemes and its SIMULIA brand to further define the robust, feature-rich solution for simulation lifecycle management at P&G,” stated Andrea Berger, Associate Director, Information Technology, GBS, Procter & Gamble. “Incorporating our simulation processes, applications and data into a managed and controlled environment is a critical element to our success. We are confident SIMULIA SLM will provide P&G the best simulation data and process management foundation that fully supports our modeling & simulation strategy and seamlessly integrates into our broader ENOVIA-based PLM environment.”
“As an innovative leader in the consumer packaged goods industry, P&G continues to set the standard for product development,” stated Scott Berkey, CEO, SIMULIA. “The partnership with SIMULIA will help the company develop better products and test them more efficiently—ultimately lowering costs and accelerating delivery of innovative products to consumers.”
The selection of SIMULIA SLM reinforces P&G’s recently announced commitment to leveraging Dassault Systemes’ V6 technology. By integrating its existing systems with ENOVIA’s Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Accelerator™ for Global Specification Management, P&G will be able to better manage products spanning multiple brands and markets.
PARIS & PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Dassault Systemes (DS) (Paris:DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), the world’s largest consumer goods company, has selected SIMULIA SLM as their simulation lifecycle management solution to support P&G’s modeling & simulation strategy.
The announcement evolves the long-standing business relationship in the simulation domain from one of solution provider into a strategic, collaborative partnership. By working closely with SIMULIA, P&G will define critical SLM requirements and identify out-of-the-box capabilities that will be incorporated into the general SIMULIA SLM solution and adopted globally within P&G.
“P&G shares a common vision with SIMULIA regarding the democratization of predictive simulation,” said Tom Lange, Director, Corporate R&D Modeling and Simulation, Procter & Gamble. “It is our goal to make the benefits of realistic simulation available to a broader range of users than previously possible. SIMULIA SLM will help our global teams accelerate innovation by providing access to simulation tools, validated processes and corporate knowledge bases throughout the product lifecycle.”
Based on Dassault Systemes’ V6 platform, the online collaborative environment for PLM 2.0, SIMULIA SLM enables P&G to capture, share and automate the execution of approved simulation methods, improve traceability of simulation data, and accelerate decision-making while securing valuable intellectual property.
“We are pleased to have established a strategic relationship with Dassault Systemes and its SIMULIA brand to further define the robust, feature-rich solution for simulation lifecycle management at P&G,” stated Andrea Berger, Associate Director, Information Technology, GBS, Procter & Gamble. “Incorporating our simulation processes, applications and data into a managed and controlled environment is a critical element to our success. We are confident SIMULIA SLM will provide P&G the best simulation data and process management foundation that fully supports our modeling & simulation strategy and seamlessly integrates into our broader ENOVIA-based PLM environment.”
“As an innovative leader in the consumer packaged goods industry, P&G continues to set the standard for product development,” stated Scott Berkey, CEO, SIMULIA. “The partnership with SIMULIA will help the company develop better products and test them more efficiently—ultimately lowering costs and accelerating delivery of innovative products to consumers.”
The selection of SIMULIA SLM reinforces P&G’s recently announced commitment to leveraging Dassault Systemes’ V6 technology. By integrating its existing systems with ENOVIA’s Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Accelerator™ for Global Specification Management, P&G will be able to better manage products spanning multiple brands and markets.
Mar 10, 2009
Cambridge University Students Racing to Design Solar Car in SolidWorks and SIMULIA Abaqus Software
Student Team to Compete in Cross-Australia Race in 2009
CONCORD, Mass - Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Paris:DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that a team of Cambridge University engineering students is using SolidWorks ® 3D CAD and Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA brand to develop a solar-powered car they will race across Australia in the fall of 2009. More spaceship than road vehicle, the car’s flat shape will feature a large solar panel that converts the sun’s energy into speeds of 60 miles per hour or faster as the team races against other teams from around the world.
The World Solar Challenge is a biannual event drawing about 40 teams from universities, car manufacturers, and individuals to race across 3,000 kilometers of the Australian outback. Engineering ingenuity and grit are typically the difference-makers, with teams only having a limited amount of time to design, prototype and test their vehicles. This will be the first World Solar Challenge for Cambridge University Eco Racing, and the team is finalizing the car’s design and testing in SolidWorks and Abaqus.
“When you think about it, this is just one big optimization problem to solve,” said Charlie Watt, a fourth year graduate student and Eco Racing Team Leader. “The solar panels we use only generate about 1 kilowatt of power, which is what a hair dryer uses. SolidWorks and Abaqus helped us find the best aerodynamic design to reduce rolling resistance, drag, and overall weight so we could wring the best performance from the battery.”
The team used SolidWorks software to model the chassis with an eye toward slimming down the profile to reduce the drag coefficient while maximizing the solar panel’s sun exposure. The team explored a variety of shapes in SolidWorks to find the fastest solution, while eliminating potentially costly errors such as part interference out of the design before prototyping began. “We were able to complete the design in a virtual environment without expending any materials such as wood, aluminum or carbon fiber, which is a huge advantage with limited time and resources,” said Watt.
Watt used SIMULIA’s Abaqus finite element analysis software to evaluate the realistic stress performance of the solar car’s chassis. The team used the SolidWorks Associative Interface for Abaqus to easily transfer their SolidWorks model to Abaqus FEA to quickly analyze the physical behavior of different materials, with the goal of optimizing weight against performance and cost. “We looked at using aluminum, steel, carbon fiber, bamboo, birch plywood, and PVC piping,” he said. “The analysis results from Abaqus showed us on screen that plywood, for example, wasn’t rigid enough to withstand the speeds. Other materials were either too expensive, or too unknown to pursue further in such a short timeframe. In the end, we went back to aluminum because we’re more familiar with its properties.”
University Eco Racing (CUER) is a team developing a solar-powered car to compete in the World Solar Challenge 2009. Founded in 2007, CUER has already built a prototype vehicle Affinity, which was the first solar-powered car to drive legally on UK roads, following its launch in June 2008. For more information, visit the Web site www.cuer.co.uk.
CONCORD, Mass - Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Paris:DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that a team of Cambridge University engineering students is using SolidWorks ® 3D CAD and Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA brand to develop a solar-powered car they will race across Australia in the fall of 2009. More spaceship than road vehicle, the car’s flat shape will feature a large solar panel that converts the sun’s energy into speeds of 60 miles per hour or faster as the team races against other teams from around the world.
The World Solar Challenge is a biannual event drawing about 40 teams from universities, car manufacturers, and individuals to race across 3,000 kilometers of the Australian outback. Engineering ingenuity and grit are typically the difference-makers, with teams only having a limited amount of time to design, prototype and test their vehicles. This will be the first World Solar Challenge for Cambridge University Eco Racing, and the team is finalizing the car’s design and testing in SolidWorks and Abaqus.
“When you think about it, this is just one big optimization problem to solve,” said Charlie Watt, a fourth year graduate student and Eco Racing Team Leader. “The solar panels we use only generate about 1 kilowatt of power, which is what a hair dryer uses. SolidWorks and Abaqus helped us find the best aerodynamic design to reduce rolling resistance, drag, and overall weight so we could wring the best performance from the battery.”
The team used SolidWorks software to model the chassis with an eye toward slimming down the profile to reduce the drag coefficient while maximizing the solar panel’s sun exposure. The team explored a variety of shapes in SolidWorks to find the fastest solution, while eliminating potentially costly errors such as part interference out of the design before prototyping began. “We were able to complete the design in a virtual environment without expending any materials such as wood, aluminum or carbon fiber, which is a huge advantage with limited time and resources,” said Watt.
Watt used SIMULIA’s Abaqus finite element analysis software to evaluate the realistic stress performance of the solar car’s chassis. The team used the SolidWorks Associative Interface for Abaqus to easily transfer their SolidWorks model to Abaqus FEA to quickly analyze the physical behavior of different materials, with the goal of optimizing weight against performance and cost. “We looked at using aluminum, steel, carbon fiber, bamboo, birch plywood, and PVC piping,” he said. “The analysis results from Abaqus showed us on screen that plywood, for example, wasn’t rigid enough to withstand the speeds. Other materials were either too expensive, or too unknown to pursue further in such a short timeframe. In the end, we went back to aluminum because we’re more familiar with its properties.”
University Eco Racing (CUER) is a team developing a solar-powered car to compete in the World Solar Challenge 2009. Founded in 2007, CUER has already built a prototype vehicle Affinity, which was the first solar-powered car to drive legally on UK roads, following its launch in June 2008. For more information, visit the Web site www.cuer.co.uk.
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Feb 26, 2009
New Releases of Isight and Fiper from SIMULIA Accelerate Design Exploration to Improve Product Performance
Dassault Systèmes Delivers New Solutions for Simulation Automation and Optimization
Paris, France, and Providence, R.I. USA – Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of Isight and Fiper 3.5, the first new release of these market-leading simulation process automation and design optimization solutions following SIMULIA’s acquisition of Engineous Software.
By using Isight and Fiper, product development engineers are able to integrate cross-disciplinary models and applications together in simulation process flows, automate their execution across distributed compute resources, and explore the resulting design space. These solutions enable manufacturing companies to improve the efficiency of identifying optimal design parameters and accelerate the process of bringing better-performing products to market.
“The addition of the open and industry-proven Isight and Fiper technology to SIMULIA’s product suite provides our customers with an unmatched capability for automating and accelerating design exploration,” stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “The new capabilities in Isight and Fiper 3.5 will help customers reduce design time and manufacturing costs, while improving product performance, quality, and reliability.”
Isight 3.5 (formerly known as iSIGHT-FD) is the market-leading, open desktop solution for creating simulation process flows. It interconnects any commercial software—including but not limited to CAD/CAE, Microsoft Excel™, and customer-developed applications—to automate the exploration of design alternatives.
Isight includes advanced engineering techniques such as optimization, Design for Six Sigma, approximation methodologies, and Design of Experiments that enable design engineers to optimize designs against key performance parameters. It also provides powerful interactive postprocessing tools allowing engineers to explore the design space from multiple points of view.
Fiper, an add-on product to Isight, enables users to share Isight simulation process flows, distribute and parallelize their execution across available compute resources, and share multidisciplinary simulation results. The Fiper add-on can be accessed directly from Isight or from a Web interface.
With the new releases of Isight and Fiper 3.5, SIMULIA is delivering on its promise to expand the ecosystem for its open scientific platform. SIMULIA is enabling a rich assortment of components to be developed for use in simulation process flows that connect commercial applications. Customers can use the Isight component software development kit to develop their own components. Third-party component development is now being facilitated through the Dassault Systèmes partner program.
Additional Highlights in Isight and Fiper 3.5:
* New 64-bit native support improves performance and enables running more complex and larger models.
* An advanced search capability in Isight assists in finding any component, parameter, or file in a simulation process flow.
* The ability to view contour plots with superimposed constraint violations within the Visual Design Driver.
* Enhanced reliability and performance for Distributed Resource Management (DRM) of simulation jobs through the integration of Platform Computing’s Load Sharing Facility (Platform LSF).
For more information, visit: www.simulia.com
Paris, France, and Providence, R.I. USA – Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of Isight and Fiper 3.5, the first new release of these market-leading simulation process automation and design optimization solutions following SIMULIA’s acquisition of Engineous Software.
By using Isight and Fiper, product development engineers are able to integrate cross-disciplinary models and applications together in simulation process flows, automate their execution across distributed compute resources, and explore the resulting design space. These solutions enable manufacturing companies to improve the efficiency of identifying optimal design parameters and accelerate the process of bringing better-performing products to market.
“The addition of the open and industry-proven Isight and Fiper technology to SIMULIA’s product suite provides our customers with an unmatched capability for automating and accelerating design exploration,” stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “The new capabilities in Isight and Fiper 3.5 will help customers reduce design time and manufacturing costs, while improving product performance, quality, and reliability.”
Isight 3.5 (formerly known as iSIGHT-FD) is the market-leading, open desktop solution for creating simulation process flows. It interconnects any commercial software—including but not limited to CAD/CAE, Microsoft Excel™, and customer-developed applications—to automate the exploration of design alternatives.
Isight includes advanced engineering techniques such as optimization, Design for Six Sigma, approximation methodologies, and Design of Experiments that enable design engineers to optimize designs against key performance parameters. It also provides powerful interactive postprocessing tools allowing engineers to explore the design space from multiple points of view.
Fiper, an add-on product to Isight, enables users to share Isight simulation process flows, distribute and parallelize their execution across available compute resources, and share multidisciplinary simulation results. The Fiper add-on can be accessed directly from Isight or from a Web interface.
With the new releases of Isight and Fiper 3.5, SIMULIA is delivering on its promise to expand the ecosystem for its open scientific platform. SIMULIA is enabling a rich assortment of components to be developed for use in simulation process flows that connect commercial applications. Customers can use the Isight component software development kit to develop their own components. Third-party component development is now being facilitated through the Dassault Systèmes partner program.
Additional Highlights in Isight and Fiper 3.5:
* New 64-bit native support improves performance and enables running more complex and larger models.
* An advanced search capability in Isight assists in finding any component, parameter, or file in a simulation process flow.
* The ability to view contour plots with superimposed constraint violations within the Visual Design Driver.
* Enhanced reliability and performance for Distributed Resource Management (DRM) of simulation jobs through the integration of Platform Computing’s Load Sharing Facility (Platform LSF).
For more information, visit: www.simulia.com
Feb 3, 2009
Dimensional Control Systems Inc. (DCS) announces a Software Development Partnership Agreement with SIMULIA
Interoperability of 3DCS tolerance simulation software with Abaqus software
Troy, Michigan U.S.A – Dimensional Control Systems Incorporated (DCS) announced today the signing of a software development partnership agreement with SIMULIA, the Dassault Systèmes brand for realistic simulation. The purpose of this agreement is to allow for the interoperability between DCS's 3DCS FEA Compliant Modeler (CM) Software solution and Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from SIMULIA. 3DCS FEA CM is an add-on module to the 3DCS tolerance simulation software, including 3DCS for CATIA V5 and 3DCS SA (Multi-CAD).The collaboration with SIMULIA builds upon the existing relationship between DCS and Dassault Systèmes to further provide customers within the Design and Manufacturing Industries, such as automotive, aerospace, consumer goods and high-tech, with unmatched capabilities for achieving dimensional integrity and product quality for non-rigid, "compliant" assemblies.
Traditional variation analysis methods are considered to be "rigid-body" or "non-compliant" modeling; meaning that every part within the assembly does not flex or would not be distorted through an assembly process such as welding, clamping or unclamping of an assembly fixture. While this might be the case with a few machined components, most commodities/materials like sheet metal, plastics, aluminum, etc. can be heavily influenced through the manufacturing processes (both fabrication and assembly), thus changing the dimensional integrity or shape of the part/assembly. Abaqus FEA software is used to determine the stresses and displacements in mechanical objects and systems, and is the basis for this leading edge advancement in predictive analysis. 3DCS FEA Compliant Modeler utilizes FEA methods to accurately simulate variation of compliant parts and assemblies within the 3D Variation Analysis model.
"Expanding our relationship with Dassault Systèmes to access simulation capabilities from SIMULIA provides significant benefits to users of both 3DCS and Abaqus," says Robert Kaphengst, CEO and President of Dimensional Control Systems. "Setting up a 3DCS work flow sequence with Abaqus for incorporating the effects of FEA analysis data within a 3DCS tolerance model becomes very straightforward. It ensures that engineers will spend less time in administration of various files between the two products. Variation Analysts can now more efficiently and accurately analyze the affects of variation within non-rigid assemblies."
"The partnership with DCS is part of our ongoing strategy to expand the Dassault Systèmes partner ecosystem to include best-in-class simulation solutions for a comprehensive range of applications," commented Tom Battisti, Director Alliances, SIMULIA. "With this partnership and the product plan for 3DCS FEA Compliant Modeler in place, our joint customers can look forward to tighter integration between 3DCS and Abaqus."
Troy, Michigan U.S.A – Dimensional Control Systems Incorporated (DCS) announced today the signing of a software development partnership agreement with SIMULIA, the Dassault Systèmes brand for realistic simulation. The purpose of this agreement is to allow for the interoperability between DCS's 3DCS FEA Compliant Modeler (CM) Software solution and Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from SIMULIA. 3DCS FEA CM is an add-on module to the 3DCS tolerance simulation software, including 3DCS for CATIA V5 and 3DCS SA (Multi-CAD).The collaboration with SIMULIA builds upon the existing relationship between DCS and Dassault Systèmes to further provide customers within the Design and Manufacturing Industries, such as automotive, aerospace, consumer goods and high-tech, with unmatched capabilities for achieving dimensional integrity and product quality for non-rigid, "compliant" assemblies.
Traditional variation analysis methods are considered to be "rigid-body" or "non-compliant" modeling; meaning that every part within the assembly does not flex or would not be distorted through an assembly process such as welding, clamping or unclamping of an assembly fixture. While this might be the case with a few machined components, most commodities/materials like sheet metal, plastics, aluminum, etc. can be heavily influenced through the manufacturing processes (both fabrication and assembly), thus changing the dimensional integrity or shape of the part/assembly. Abaqus FEA software is used to determine the stresses and displacements in mechanical objects and systems, and is the basis for this leading edge advancement in predictive analysis. 3DCS FEA Compliant Modeler utilizes FEA methods to accurately simulate variation of compliant parts and assemblies within the 3D Variation Analysis model.
"Expanding our relationship with Dassault Systèmes to access simulation capabilities from SIMULIA provides significant benefits to users of both 3DCS and Abaqus," says Robert Kaphengst, CEO and President of Dimensional Control Systems. "Setting up a 3DCS work flow sequence with Abaqus for incorporating the effects of FEA analysis data within a 3DCS tolerance model becomes very straightforward. It ensures that engineers will spend less time in administration of various files between the two products. Variation Analysts can now more efficiently and accurately analyze the affects of variation within non-rigid assemblies."
"The partnership with DCS is part of our ongoing strategy to expand the Dassault Systèmes partner ecosystem to include best-in-class simulation solutions for a comprehensive range of applications," commented Tom Battisti, Director Alliances, SIMULIA. "With this partnership and the product plan for 3DCS FEA Compliant Modeler in place, our joint customers can look forward to tighter integration between 3DCS and Abaqus."
Dec 3, 2008
Dassault Systèmes Announces New Composite Crush Simulation Technology
CZone for Abaqus Provides Breakthrough for Simulating Realistic Crushing Behavior of Energy-Absorbing Laminated Composites
PARIS & PROVIDENCE, R.I. : Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Paris:DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of CZone for Abaqus, from the DS SIMULIA brand, for simulating crushing of composite materials.
CZone for Abaqus, a new add-on product for Abaqus FEA software, enables engineers to accelerate the design and evaluation of energy-absorbing composite components and assemblies. Based on technology from UK-based Engenuity Ltd., the new product provides the ability to study the crushing behavior of composite structures in automobiles, helicopters, aircraft, trains, and other transport vehicles to protect occupants and cargo from shock or injury during severe impact. Energy-absorbing composite structures offer the possibility of increased safety at a lower cost of both initial manufacture and repair—for example, through modular, replaceable front and rear assemblies.
“Bentley Motors has plans to incorporate more composite structure materials into our premium automobiles,” stated Antony Dodworth, principal research manager at Bentley Motors Limited. “Before embarking on the development of costly vehicle prototypes, we need to have simulation technology that enables us to have confidence in predicting the crashworthiness of composite-intensive structures that is comparable to what we have today for evaluating steel structures. The combination of CZone and Abaqus will provide us this critical simulation tool.”
“CZone for Abaqus links the unique composite crushing technology developed by Engenuity with the industry-leading composites capabilities already available from SIMULIA in our Abaqus FEA software,” notes Dale Berry, director of technical marketing for SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “Together, they offer a comprehensive insight into the crashworthiness performance of an entire structure, including both the crush front and the back-up structure.”
“This integrated solution will provide significant value to the automotive and aerospace industries by enabling them to accelerate the design cycle and lower the costs of including new composite materials in their vehicles,” stated Graham Barnes, director of Engenuity. “Additionally, the robust simulation solution will help them develop safer products capable of absorbing crash energy through composite crushing.”
Engenuity’s CZone technology includes direct implementation of crush-based element force generation and failure for defined “crush zones,” which are typically located at the forward edges of a product. CZone for Abaqus determines the extent of composite material crushing as well as other modes of potential failure—such as composite delamination, fracture, and buckling.
For more information, visit: http://www.simulia.com/products/czone.html.
PARIS & PROVIDENCE, R.I. : Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Paris:DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of CZone for Abaqus, from the DS SIMULIA brand, for simulating crushing of composite materials.
CZone for Abaqus, a new add-on product for Abaqus FEA software, enables engineers to accelerate the design and evaluation of energy-absorbing composite components and assemblies. Based on technology from UK-based Engenuity Ltd., the new product provides the ability to study the crushing behavior of composite structures in automobiles, helicopters, aircraft, trains, and other transport vehicles to protect occupants and cargo from shock or injury during severe impact. Energy-absorbing composite structures offer the possibility of increased safety at a lower cost of both initial manufacture and repair—for example, through modular, replaceable front and rear assemblies.
“Bentley Motors has plans to incorporate more composite structure materials into our premium automobiles,” stated Antony Dodworth, principal research manager at Bentley Motors Limited. “Before embarking on the development of costly vehicle prototypes, we need to have simulation technology that enables us to have confidence in predicting the crashworthiness of composite-intensive structures that is comparable to what we have today for evaluating steel structures. The combination of CZone and Abaqus will provide us this critical simulation tool.”
“CZone for Abaqus links the unique composite crushing technology developed by Engenuity with the industry-leading composites capabilities already available from SIMULIA in our Abaqus FEA software,” notes Dale Berry, director of technical marketing for SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “Together, they offer a comprehensive insight into the crashworthiness performance of an entire structure, including both the crush front and the back-up structure.”
“This integrated solution will provide significant value to the automotive and aerospace industries by enabling them to accelerate the design cycle and lower the costs of including new composite materials in their vehicles,” stated Graham Barnes, director of Engenuity. “Additionally, the robust simulation solution will help them develop safer products capable of absorbing crash energy through composite crushing.”
Engenuity’s CZone technology includes direct implementation of crush-based element force generation and failure for defined “crush zones,” which are typically located at the forward edges of a product. CZone for Abaqus determines the extent of composite material crushing as well as other modes of potential failure—such as composite delamination, fracture, and buckling.
For more information, visit: http://www.simulia.com/products/czone.html.
Nov 19, 2008
Dassault Systèmes Announces New Release of Abaqus Unified FEA from SIMULIA
Latest Release Delivers Advanced General Contact and Modeling Capabilities for Enhanced Realistic Simulation
Paris, France, and Providence, R.I. – Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of Abaqus 6.8 Extended Functionality (6.8-EF), its technology-leading finite element analysis (FEA) software suite from SIMULIA.
Engineers, designers, researchers, and scientists use Abaqus to lower costs and reduce cycle times through the realistic simulation of all products, materials, and processes behaviors, including stress, impact, crush, fluid-structure interaction, and thermal dynamics.
Abaqus 6.8-EF includes new and improved capabilities in general contact, the modeling of spot welds, fasteners, and elastomeric foams, and computational performance. It is focused on delivering technology to solve specific engineering challenges across all industries including automotive, aerospace, electronics, energy, packaged goods, and medical devices.
"The latest release of Abaqus demonstrates SIMULIA’s commitment to delivering innovative realistic simulation technology for our customers in a wide range of industries,” stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA. “The new and enhanced features in Abaqus 6.8-EF, will enable our customers to deepen their understanding of product behavior and accelerate the development of innovative products.”
Key enhancements in the new release include:
* The new general contact implementation in Abaqus/Standard offers a simplified and highly automated method for defining contact interactions. This capability is useful for a diverse range of industry applications—from automotive transmissions and brake assemblies, to medical devices and surgical equipment, to the behavior and manufacturing of packaged goods.
* New Abaqus/CAE modeling techniques for spot welds and fasteners allow users to create attachment points that follow a model edge or conform to a regular pattern, particularly useful for simulation of welded automotive and aerospace components.
* A low-density foam model in Abaqus/Explicit enables automotive engineers to simulate energy-absorbing materials in crash applications. This capability allows users to model the low-density, highly compressible elastomeric foams that are widely used in automobile passive safety systems. This can also be used in the design of foams commonly used in packaging of hand-held and other electronic devices.
* A selective subcycling feature in Abaqus/Explicit helps engineers in defense and shipbuilding to evaluate the realistic behavior of the very large structures that are common to those industries. This feature improves model performance by enabling much larger mesh densities in areas undergoing large strains, such as in the analysis of ship structures or land vehicles subjected to impact.
* An enhanced SolidWorks Associative Interface provides geometry transfer and maintains the relationship between SolidWorks and Abaqus models. Updates include improved performance and robustness for large assemblies and support for SolidWorks 2009.
About SIMULIA
SIMULIA is the Dassault Systèmes 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 Systèmes
As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 100,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes 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 Systèmes 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 Systèmes’ shares are listed on Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) and Dassault Systèmes’ ADRs may be traded on the US Over-The-Counter (OTC) market (DASTY). For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com.
CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA, SolidWorks and 3DVIA are registered trademarks of Dassault Systèmes or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries.
Paris, France, and Providence, R.I. – Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of Abaqus 6.8 Extended Functionality (6.8-EF), its technology-leading finite element analysis (FEA) software suite from SIMULIA.
Engineers, designers, researchers, and scientists use Abaqus to lower costs and reduce cycle times through the realistic simulation of all products, materials, and processes behaviors, including stress, impact, crush, fluid-structure interaction, and thermal dynamics.
Abaqus 6.8-EF includes new and improved capabilities in general contact, the modeling of spot welds, fasteners, and elastomeric foams, and computational performance. It is focused on delivering technology to solve specific engineering challenges across all industries including automotive, aerospace, electronics, energy, packaged goods, and medical devices.
"The latest release of Abaqus demonstrates SIMULIA’s commitment to delivering innovative realistic simulation technology for our customers in a wide range of industries,” stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA. “The new and enhanced features in Abaqus 6.8-EF, will enable our customers to deepen their understanding of product behavior and accelerate the development of innovative products.”
Key enhancements in the new release include:
* The new general contact implementation in Abaqus/Standard offers a simplified and highly automated method for defining contact interactions. This capability is useful for a diverse range of industry applications—from automotive transmissions and brake assemblies, to medical devices and surgical equipment, to the behavior and manufacturing of packaged goods.
* New Abaqus/CAE modeling techniques for spot welds and fasteners allow users to create attachment points that follow a model edge or conform to a regular pattern, particularly useful for simulation of welded automotive and aerospace components.
* A low-density foam model in Abaqus/Explicit enables automotive engineers to simulate energy-absorbing materials in crash applications. This capability allows users to model the low-density, highly compressible elastomeric foams that are widely used in automobile passive safety systems. This can also be used in the design of foams commonly used in packaging of hand-held and other electronic devices.
* A selective subcycling feature in Abaqus/Explicit helps engineers in defense and shipbuilding to evaluate the realistic behavior of the very large structures that are common to those industries. This feature improves model performance by enabling much larger mesh densities in areas undergoing large strains, such as in the analysis of ship structures or land vehicles subjected to impact.
* An enhanced SolidWorks Associative Interface provides geometry transfer and maintains the relationship between SolidWorks and Abaqus models. Updates include improved performance and robustness for large assemblies and support for SolidWorks 2009.
About SIMULIA
SIMULIA is the Dassault Systèmes 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 Systèmes
As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 100,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes 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 Systèmes 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 Systèmes’ shares are listed on Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) and Dassault Systèmes’ ADRs may be traded on the US Over-The-Counter (OTC) market (DASTY). For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com.
CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA, SolidWorks and 3DVIA are registered trademarks of Dassault Systèmes or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries.
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