FEA Newsletter October 2011
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October Issue - 11th Anniversary Issue PreSys™ R3 Release BETA CAE Systems S.A. FE Modeling Tool release ANSA v13.2.0 ESI engineer David Prono transatlantic boat race The Stealth LLNL M. King (left) and physicist W. Moss B-2 Spirit compression test helmet pad TABLE OF CONTENTS 2. Table of Contents 4. FEA Information Inc. Announcements 5. Participant & Industry Announcements 6. Participants 7. BETA CAE Systems S.A. announces the release of ANSA v13.2.0 11. Making A Difference Guenter & Margareta Mueller 13. LLNL researchers find way to mitigate traumatic brain injury 16. ESI sponsors in-house engineer David Prono for a transatlantic boat race 18. ETA - PreSys™ R3 Release FE Modeling Tool Now Offers ‘Part Groups’ Function 20. Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center 23. LSTC SID-IIs-D FAST - Finite Element Model 27. Website Showcase The Snelson Atom 28. New Technology - “Where You At?” 29. SGI - Benchmarks- Top Crunch.org 35. Aerospace - The Stealth 2 36. Reference Library - Available Books 38. Solutions - PrePost Processing - Model Editing 39. Solutions - Software 40. Cloud Services – SGI 42. Cloud Services – Gridcore 43. Global Training Courses 50. FEA - CAE Consulting/Consultants 53. Software Distributors 57. Industry News - MSC.Software 59. Industry News – SGI 60. Industry News - CRAY 3 FEA Information Inc. Announcements Welcome to our 11th Anniversary Issue. A special thanks to a few of our first participant’s that supported, and continue to support FEA Information Inc.: Abe Keisoglou and Cathie Walton, (ETA) US, Brian Walker, Oasys, UK Christian Tanasecu, SGI, Guenter and Margareta Mueller, CADFEM Germany, Sam Saltiel, BETA CAE Systems SA, Greece Companies - JSOL - LSTC With this issue we will be adding new directions, opening participation, and have brought on additional staff. I would personally appreciate any suggestions on articles that you want included, software information, and anything you wish to share. In this way, we know that we’re publishing what you want. We look forward to Q1-2012 when we anticipate changes will be completed. Send any suggestions to me, Marsha, at [email protected] and to avoid being missed please cc to [email protected] Sincerely, Marsha J. Victory, President, FEA Information Inc [email protected] Ranch Picture www.livermorehorses.com Sara Wolley and Shane. Sara grooms, and helps out with Shane. 4 Participant & Industry Announcements APACS Services, Inc - APACS Services, Inc. - consulting, support and training expertise encompassing a broad range of industrial applications in the areas of structural, thermal, thermal- stress, and fluid-structure interaction analysis. Alex Pinsker, - Email: [email protected] Data Point Labs http://www.testpaks.com is the new side of DatapointLabs, focused on the material modeling needs of the CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) community. The site contains discussions, articles and case-studies, plus an easy way to select and buy TestPaks® - material testing for the calibration of material models for your simulation. FEA Participants at Super Computing 2011 http://www.sc11.supercomputing.org/ Please check SC11 for any changes in booth numbers Fujitsu Limited 815 Gompute 6002 Microsoft 1601 Panasas Inc. 1506 SGI 1841 Courtesy Postings AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 823 Bull SAS 2643 Cray Inc. 2030 Fraunhofer ITWM 657 IBM 2131 NVIDIA 2719 QLogic Corp 2105 5 FEA Information Participants Platinum OASYS Ltd: JSOL Corporation: SGI: http://www.oasys- http://www.jsol.co.jp/english/cae http://www.sgi.com software.com/dyna/en/ ETA: DYNAmore GmbH ESI Group: http://www.eta.com http://www.dynamore.de http://www.esi-group.com BETA CAE Systems LSTC: Dalian Fukun S.A.: http://www.lstc.com Technology Co. Ltd.: http://www.beta-cae.gr MICROSOFT Panasas, Inc. Shanghai Hengstar http://www.microsoft.com http://www.panasas.com Technology Co. Ltd http://www.hengstar.com/ GridCore AB http://gridcore.se Bronze Participants Data Point Labs APACS Lancemore Corporation Japan e2s Enterprise Engineering Solutions 6 BETA CAE Systems S.A. announces the release of ANSA v13.2.0 New software version release announcement - October 13th, 2011 http://www.betacae.com/news/20111013_announcement_ansa_v13.2.0.htm BETA CAE Systems S.A. announces the release of ANSA v13.2.0 with impressive new features and known problems resolved The official software release is comprised New features by the latest ansa_v13.2.0 files that Double precision for higher reside in the server at the time of this accuracy. announcement. These replace any pre- Support of larger than 16GB .ansa releases and files downloaded prior to files. October 13th, 2011. Moldex3D pre-processing menu and interface. Supported platforms: ANSA v13.2.x RadTherm pre-processing menu and the respective CAD Data Translators, and interface. will be available on MS-Windows, Linux Simultaneous interpretion and and Mac OS only. merging of CAD files (IGES, STEP, VDA). The following UNIX platforms: HP-UX, Support of hierarchy information IBM-AIX and SUN-Solaris will be read from IGES files. discontinued. Comparison tool applicable on The support of Windows 2000 SP3 will solver input files (NASTRAN, LS- also be discontinued and Windows XP DYNA, Abaqus etc.). SP1 will be the earliest MS-Windows Zoom In/Out button on Lists version to be supported. window to focus on selected item. For details, please review the latest Multi conditional filter on Lists document on the supported platforms window. and minimum system requirements . On screen mouse-buttons operation for visibility control. UnDO/ReDO operations in Focus commands using shortcut buttons. Various geometry definition and healing functions. 7 Auto Middle Surface Mesh Graphical representation of Generator: results improvement Penetration depth. and significant reduction of NASTRAN: Output option for MD memory allocation. Nastran, NX Nastran, NEi Nastran. Additional Mesh Quality criteria. Capturing of line elements in Enhanced mesh handling tools. Display Model for NVH modelling. CFD mesh generator: mixed mesh Numerous new keywords (tria & quad) creation. supported for all solvers. Additional parameters for better Interpretation of ADAMS/View to volume mesh creation. ANSA Kinematic Entities and vice Outline display of volumes. versa. New options added for splitting Extended ANSA Kinematics Tool volume elements. with wide range of functionality. Voxel solid mesh gernerator. Preserving of the imported Hexa Block: Improvement of the "unsupported keywords" as automatic “O-GRID” treatment. Auxiliary Include and restoration Batch Mesh Manager: Wizard of them during Output. driven input for effortless Results Mapping: support of generation of parameters and composites mapping from quality criteria. Simulayt & FiberSim results Batch Mesh Manager: Significant formats. improvement in surface triangular Laminate tool: new interface, mesh on solid components. PERMAS Composites support, Batch Mesh Manager: Option for various new options and element length treatment on applications. flanges has been added. Check Manager: template driven New Connections Selection interface for "single-shot" errors Assistant interface. detection and reporting. Connections importing options NVH Console: diagram of the (offset & grouping). assembly of the include files, using New connections comparison tool. connectors items, for NVH FRF and New colour coding and on-screen Modal Models based analyses. visibility control of connections. Include Files Configurator: new Numerous new FE-Representations data handling options for saving for all connection types. and exporting. ANSA Data Management: Occupant Safety: Ejection enhanced and facilitated handling Mitigation - FMVSS 226 analysis of "Include files". tool. 8 Dummy: direct mouse-driven and order solid elements was not interactive dummy translation moving the mid-nodes. positioning. Renumber Tool: Special Rules with MORPH: New Direct Fitting Force option, might be creating morphing tool. conflicts, by assigning free IDs. MORPH: smoothing zone for NASTRAN: errors in the exported nested elements option. files format, when the option MORPH: support of sensitivity- "Continuation lines" was disabled. based morphing on polygon and Abaqus: Solid elements C3D8L, polyhedral elements. were outputted as C3D8R, when the option Abaqus/Explicit was For more details about the new software enabled. features, enhancements and corrections Abaqus: DOF field of *BOUNDARY please, refer to the Release Notes was erroniously read when "Magn" document. was blank. LS-DYNA: DAMPING was not Known issues resolved outputted when the "Model" Erroneous measurement of output option was used. distance between Faces. PAM-CRASH: imported BAGIN data Realization of RBE2s by cards were ignored if the Connection Lines was producing referenced GASPEC data were NASTRAN dependency errors. missing. COMPARE: Differences in Abaqus PAM-CRASH: the LC and RC fields STEP manager were not traced. of RWALL might be outputted in Hot Points on triple bounds wrong position. junctions might not be deleted PAM-CRASH: the Transformation after perimeters' join. information within the Holes’ recognition has been IMP/EXPORT was not fully written significantly improved. in the exported file. VOLUMES>EXTRUDE>REVOLUTE: RADIOSS: the *SUBSET was not accuracy issues. written out when include files were The RE-MESH function on macro also output. areas with MAP [Tria] was ANSYS: output of 2nd order generating MAP [Quad] mesh. CONTA174 and TARG174 Wrong