Dassault Systemes Releases Abaqus Unified FEA from SIMULIA

By DE Editors

Dassault Systemes (DS; Paris, France) announced Abaqus 6.8 Extended Functionality (6.8-EF), its finite element analysis (FEA) software suite from SIMULIA (Providence, RI).

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.

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; new Abaqus/CAE modeling techniques for spot welds and fasteners; a low-density foam model in Abaqus/Explicit enables automotive engineers to simulate energy-absorbing materials in crash applications; 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; and an enhanced SolidWorks Associative Interface provides geometry transfer and maintains the relationship between SolidWorks and Abaqus models.

For more information, visit SIMULIA or Dassault Systemes.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.