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Release Notes
ADINA 9.1 December 2015
ADINA R & D, Inc.
ADINA System 9.1
Release Notes
(for version 9.1.3)
December 2015
ADINA R & D, Inc. 71 Elton Avenue Watertown, MA 02472 USA
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New and updated feature summary
New and updated feature summary
This section lists the new and updated features that are available in ADINA System 9.1, as compared with ADINA System 9.0.7.
There are new commands and new and changed parameters associated with the new and updated features. The release notes refer to the commands and parameters in the command- line formats. Further information about the new commands and new and changed parameters can be found in the AUI Command Reference Manuals.
For user interface users, most command-line parameters have analogous fields in the dialog boxes.
Note, when we refer to documentation, we refer to the versions of the documentation given below in the “Available Documentation” section.
Features for all programs
Table of supported program versions
Platform Operating system Version ADINA-M Parallelized Fortran assembly1 compiler Linux 2.6.18 and higher, 64-bit Parasolid Yes Intel ifort 11.1 x86_642 glibc 2.5 and higher, and Open gcc 4.1.2 and higher Cascade Windows Windows XP, Vista, 64-bit Parasolid Yes Intel Visual x86_642 7, 8 and Open Fortran 11 Cascade
1) All program versions have parallelized solvers. Only ADINA and ADINA-Thermal have parallelized assembly.
2) The Intel 64 and AMD Opteron implementations of the x86_64 architecture are supported.
Improvements to the floating license option
The ADINA System now uses Reprise License Manager (RLM) for the floating license option.
An option is now available to hold an AUI floating license for the entire analysis. This option is useful for analyses that require steered adaptive meshing (SAM) as it ensures an AUI floating license is always available for the adaptive meshing.
ADINA System 9.1 Release Notes 3
New and updated feature summary
ADINA Handbook
An ADINA Handbook is now available that covers geometry, meshing, and the fast graphics mode.
ADINA Solids & Structures features
Improvements for fracture mechanics
The station virtual shift (SVS) method is now available for fracture mechanics of 3-D crack models. This method has the following features:
• General mesh (mapped or free-form) everywhere, including at the crack fronts. • Mixed mode stress intensity factor calculations in linear elastic analysis for mode I, II and III fracture using the method of auxiliary fields. • Energy release rate calculations for mode I. • More than one 3D crack can be modelled at a time. Only one ADINA-IN command is required for each crack definition. • Virtual crack advance at crack advance stations, not necessarily at nodes. The advantage is that as the mesh is refined, the number of crack advance stations on the crack front can be held constant, so the virtual crack advance is independent of the meshing. • Shifting of nodes adjacent to the crack front to the quarter-points by option. • Various error measures output so that the user can assess the quality of the integrations used in the calculated stress intensity factors.
The 9.0 virtual shift method is now referred to as the nodal virtual shift (NVS) method.
Chapter 10 of the ADINA Structures Theory and Modeling Guide is extensively rewritten.