DS Announces Advancements in New Abaqus Release from SIMULIA

By DE Editors

Dassault Systemes (DS; Paris, France) released Abaqus 6.8, its unified finite element analysis (FEA) software suite from SIMULIA (Providence, RI). Engineers, designers,  researchers, and scientists use Abaqus to lower costs and reduce cycle times through the realistic simulation of stress, impact, crush, fluid-structure interaction, thermal dynamics, and other complex behaviors of products,  materials, and processes.

With a focus on solving specific engineering challenges in automotive, aerospace,  electronics, energy, packaged goods, and other industry segments, Abaqus 6.8 provides improved capabilities in modeling and results visualization,  structural analysis, composites failure, general contact, computing performance,  and multiphysics.

Among the latest advancements are fully built-in and improved composites analysis capabilities to simulate the behavior of composite crack propagation,  delamination, and possible failure; capabilities that allow automotive engineers to capture full-vehicle noise and vibration response due to tire rolling effects and viscoelastic material effects from tires, bushings, isolators, and laminated steel; and a low-cycle fatigue method that assists electronics engineers in assessing the lifecycle of solder joints.

It also includes a new anisotropic hyperelastic material model that enables medical device developers to simulate soft tissue interaction with stents and orthopedic implants; a new Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) multiphysics capability that allows industrial equipment manufacturers to predict loads on earth-moving equipment during soil excavation — this capability can be used to predict the behavior of fluid-filled containers, hydroplaning tires, and bird-strike on aircraft.

For details, go to Dassault Systemes.

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