FEA Newsletter August 2010

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2 Porsche Celebrates Mathematical Modeling of An 60 Years in America 0 Asteroid Falling into the Ocean

ICRASH 2010

Conference LS-PrePost 3.0 now released

Training Courses

Galactic Super-Volcano

TABLE OF CONTENTS

3 Announcements 4 FEA Platinum Participant Sponsors 5 Publication: Stone Skipping Simulation by ALE and SPH …. 6 Publication: Mathematical Modeling of Asteroid Falling into the Ocean 7 Publication: Simulation of a Thin Walled Aluminum Tube Subjected to Base Acceleration Using LS-DYNA’s Vibro-Acoustic Solver 8 International Crashworthiness Conference Icrash 2010 11 Porsche Celebrates 60 Years in America with a Search for the Oldest Porsche in the Country 12 Reading Reference Library Available From Amazon 14 D3View - Suri Bala 15 Galactic Super-Volcano in Action 17 Update CAE Associates 18 SGI - Benchmarks - TopCrunch 19 SGI Cloud Computing Used by LS-DYNA Customers 20 Pre-Processing, Post Processing, Model Editing 21 LS-DYNA Distributors 25 Finite Element Analysis Consulting – Consultants – Engineering Services 26 Software & Hardware Alliances 28 SMP & MPP Hardware, OS - MPP and Interconnect and MPI 30 Crash Test Dummy Models Websites/Information 31 The Official LS-OPT Support Site 32 DYNAmore – 9th German LS-DYNA® User Forum 33 EnginSoft 2010 International Conference 34 ERAB - Nordic LS-DYNA Users' 35 Training Courses 38 Isogeometric Analysis 2011 39 BETA CAE News 40 HP has earned the Excellence in Service Operations certification 42 ESI Announces VA One 2010 44 LS-PrePost 3.0 Now Released 49 MCAD Café News Showcase: Siemens Competition Deadline Approaching October 1

2 Announcements

In this issue don’t miss:

D3View:

LSTC is the exclusive distributor of D3View, developed by Suri Bala.

LS-PrePost:

Philip Ho, and his team of developers in the US and China have now released LS- PrePost 3.0.

SGI Cloud Computing

SGI Cloud Computing has satisfied the LS-DYNA customers that have used it for additional CPU power.

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OASYS Ltd: JSOL Corporation: HP: http://www.oasys- http://www.jsol.co.jp/english/cae http://www.hp.com/ software.com/dyna/en/

ETA: INTEL: ESI Group: http://www.eta.com http://www.intel.com http://www.esi-group.com

BETA CAE Systems S.A.: LSTC: SGI: http://www.beta-cae.com http://www.lstc.com http://www.sgi.com

MICROSOFT http://www.microsoft.com

Conference Paper Showcase

Stone Skipping Simulation

by ALE and SPH

The full paper and others of the 11th Int’l LS-DYNA Users Conference – 2010 are available for download at: http://www.dynalook.com/ http://www.dynalook.com/international-conf-2010/Simulation-2-4.pdf

Stone Skipping Simulation by ALE and SPH

Mitsuhiro Makino - Dynapower Corporation

Stone skipping is the played at the sea shore and river. The flat stone, which is n thrown, skips on the surface of the water. φ

This phenomena is simulated by ALE and SPH capability of LS-DYNA®. The θ dependency of the parameters such as v the angle between the stone and the water, incident angle of the stone will be . discussed Fig 1. The parameters of stone

Figure 3 |v|=1000mm

Conference Paper Showcase

Mathematical Modeling of An Asteroid Falling into the Ocean .

Mathematical Modeling of Asteroid Falling into the Ocean

A.V. Abramov, O.V. Voikina, I.V. Minaev -LLC "STRELA" Open Computer Center V.A. Simonenko - RFNC Zababakhin Research Institute of Technical Physics E.A. Abramov - South-Ural State University N.A. Skorkin National Research Nuclear University "MIFI"

Today, experimental information about collides with the Earth at a speed of 22 large-scale collision tsunami is not km/s at angles 30, 60 and 90 degrees. available. That is why one of the main tools of studies is mathematical Calculation of space body collision with a modeling. This paper considers falling of barrier is split into two stages. At the stone asteroid with diameter 1 km into first stage, using the ocean 4 km deep. This asteroid

Fig. 2. Asteroid Apophis

Conference Paper Showcase

Simulation of a Thin Walled Aluminum Tube Subjected to Base Acceleration Using LS- DYNA's Vibro-Acoustic Solver .

Simulation of a Thin Walled Aluminum Tube Subjected to Base Acceleration Using LS-DYNA's Vibro-Acoustic Solver

Ofir Shor, Yoav Lev -Rafael Yun Huang - LSTC

A shaker table test, where a simple thin result. Three modeling methods of the walled aluminum tube was base fixture were tested, and acceleration PSD accelerated at two geometrical locations, results at various points along the tube was simulated using the vibro-acoustic were compared to test data. A simple, solver of LS-DYNA. It was shown that the numerically low-cost method, of method of modeling the fixture of the modeling the fixture was found which tube to the shaker table's moving plate gave very good agreements with the had a great impact on the simulation experimental data .

CH 6

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International Crashworthiness Conference

September 22-24, 2010

Washington D.C., USA

http://www.bolton.ac.uk/BEE/BAARG/Conferences/icrash2010.aspx

Organised by

 The University of Bolton, UK  The George Washington University, Virginia Campus, USA  Taylor & Francis Group (Publishers of IJCRASH), UK  Bolton Automotive & Aerospace Research Group (BAARG), UK

Conference Scope

The conference will address five distinct areas of safety in the following separate sessions:

Vehicle Occupants,  Vulnerable Road Users (Cyclistsand Pedestrians)  Safety Systems and Materials

Structural Crashworthiness Vehicle Occupant Restraints,  Road and Rail Vehicles  Energy Absorbers,  Air and Spacecraft  Metallic and Composite Materials  Ships and Submarines  Accident Survey and  Impact Biomechanics Reconstruction

8 Real World Database forum in which they can present and  Realistic Regulations discuss their work in this most important  Type Approval Tests field of crashworthiness. The previous six  Customer Rating Systems ICRASH conferences were held with unprecedented successes in Dearborn Modelling (USA), London (UK), Melbourne  Simulation and Validation (Australia), San Francisco (USA), Athens  Introduction (Greece) and Kyoto (Japan) respectively, every two years since 1998. ICRASH has The economic crisis of 2008/09 continues become a well-recognized platform for to reverberate loudly worldwide engineers, bioengineers, designers and destroying not only the livelihood of researchers in the field of structural many of us but also bankrupting some of crashworthiness and impact the automotive, aerospace and railway biomechanics and provides a vital forum businesses we scientists and engineers for experts to find designs that reduce depend upon and help. While this fatalities and injuries attributed from economic crash will come to an end, world's road, railway and air accidents. unfortunately the number of vehicle crashes will not seize as we experience Following the excellent reputations and the ever-increasing demand for mass emerging tradition of previous ICRASH transport by road, rail, air and sea. conferences, The George Washington University, Virginia Campus (USA) is now The vehicle crashes will result in human hosting the ICRASH 2010 to be held at injuries and damage to property. Thus the spectacular and picturesque National scientists and engineers face an Conference Center on the Upper Belmont increasing challenge of finding solutions Place in Leesburg, Virginia. This is just that will greatly improve transport 25 miles (40 km) Northwest of safety. This is true especially as the Washington DC (USA). economic crash makes us all think and come up with new types of vehicle designs that are not only safe but ICrash 2010 Programme environmentally acceptable to the users Chairpersons and the public at large. The vehicles of E. C. Chirwa the future will use different propulsion (The Univ. of Bolton, UK) systems to be dominated by electric cars. In such electric cars, the structural C. D. (Steve) Kan crashworthiness design will be different (The George Washington Univ., to what we currently have. The Virginia Campus, USA) packaging of the batteries for example will drive future crashworthiness design Distinguished Conference Scientific and we must be ready for this new Faculty: challenge. W. Abramowicz The objective of this conference is to (Impact Design, Europe, Poland) encourage scientists and engineers meet S. Acar this challenge by providing a valuable (Loughborough University, UK) 9 W. Altenhof J. J. Quartuccio (Univ. of Windsor, Canada) (NAS. Command, Maryland, USA) J. A. Ambrosio J. D. Reid (Inst. Superior Technico, Portugal) (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) F. A. Bandak (Uniformed Svcs. Univ. Health Sci., USA) Local Organizing Committee F. A. Berg C. D. (Steve) Kan (The George (Dekra Automobil GmbH, Germany) Washington University,USA) C. Bisagni (Politechnico di Milano, Italy) Conference Manager R. H. Grzebieta General enquiries should be directed to: (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia) C. D. Kan Lilly Nix (The George Washington Univ., USA) The National Crash Analysis Center C. Kindervater The George Washington University, (D F L, Germany) Virginia Campus K. Langwieder 20101 Academic Way, Ashburn VA (Institute of Vehicle Safety, Germany) 20147 A. G. Mamalis (Nat’l Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece) Tel: +1 – 703 – 726 – 8515 D. Otte E-mail: [email protected]| (Medical Univ. Hannover, Germany)

Porsche Celebrates 60 Years in America with a Search for the Oldest Porsche in the Country

Porsche owners and enthusiasts are invited to participate in: My Classic Porsche Search and My Porsche Passion Contest at: www.Porsche60Years.com

ATLANTA — August 13, 2010 on for the Grossvater of all Porsches on /PRNewswire/ — The joy of driving a American soil, the oldest Porsche ever classic Porsche is a sufficient reward for sold in the United States. most enthusiasts, but owning the oldest Porsches in America could bring some Owners who have Porsches “with papers” very real awards during the company’s can enter online beginning Aug. 13. To 60th Anniversary year in the United submit an entry, visit States. To celebrate six decades of www.Porsche60Years.com and review American Porsche passion, on Aug. 13 the participation guidelines for My Classic Porsche Cars North America (PCNA) is Porsche Search. launching the My Classic Porsche Search. This national search will focus on finding The oldest Porsches and their owners will the oldest Porsches in 12 distinctive receive special recognition and become model categories, as well as the very eligible for additional awards, including oldest Porsche of all. an exclusive badge from the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. Exhibition-quality As part of its 60th Anniversary images of select winning models will also celebration, Porsche is inviting owners to be featured at the new “Sixty Years of introduce these most senior members of Porsche in America” exhibit, opening Oct. the Porsche family to everyone in 12 at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, America. My Classic Porsche Search is Germany. One vehicle may also be open to all owners who think they have a selected for display at the Porsche stand shot at earning the “oldest” designation during this year’s Los Angeles Auto for their car. Entries can be submitted Show, where it will join the company’s for 12 model ranges, including the newest models. Porsche 356, 911, 912, 914, 924, 928, 944, 968, Boxster, Cayenne, Carrera GT All entries will be evaluated for and Cayman. In addition, the search is authenticity by a Porsche panel of

11 experts, including noted American Porsche AG. PCNA employs 213 people Porsche historians from the Porsche Club who provide Porsche vehicles, parts, of America. service, marketing and training for its 199 dealers. The dealers, in turn, In addition to the My Classic Porsche provide Porsche owners with best-in- Search, Porsche is unveiling a class service. Throughout its more than national My Porsche Passion Contest six-decade history, Porsche has on Aug. 24. Porsche aficionados will developed numerous technologies that have the opportunity to write and have advanced vehicle performance, upload a 500-words-or-less story improved safety and spurred that exemplifies their unique passion environmental innovations within the for a specific Porsche car, an automotive industry. The company experience or the brand as a whole. continues to celebrate its heritage by The essay contest will be open to adding to its long list of motorsports entries until Nov. 1, with 20 winning victories dating back to its first 24 Hours stories selected by a special panel of of Le Mans class win in 1951. Today, Porsche judges. with more than 28,000 victories, Porsche is recognized as the world's most Fans will then vote online for their successful brand in sports car racing. favorites from the list of 20 finalists. The PCNA, which imports the iconic 911 three entries with the most votes will win series, the highly acclaimed Boxster and an all-expense-paid trip the Porsche Cayman mid-engine sports cars, high- Sport Driving School in Birmingham, Ala. end Cayenne sport utility vehicles and the four-door Panamera Gran Turismos, About Porsche Cars North America, strives to maintain a standard of Inc excellence, commitment and distinction synonymous with its brand. Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), based in Atlanta, Ga., is the Follow us: exclusive importer of Porsche vehicles for www.twitter.com/PorscheNewsWire the United States. It is a wholly owned, and indirect subsidiary of Dr. Ing.h.c. F. www.facebook.com/Porsche

Reading Reference Library Available From Amazon

Finite Element Arbitrary Analysis Theory and Langrangian- Application with Eulerian ANSYS (3rd Edition) and Fluid Structure Interaction.

A First Course in Finite Elements

D3View Suri Bala

D3View Available Through LSTC

We are pleased to announce LSTC is the exclusive distributor of D3View, developed by Suri Bala.

For Pricing, Demo license, Availability, Training: [email protected]

August 19, 2010 Published by Suri Bala August 13th, Experimental Data Management inside 2010 d3VIEW video show available under. Thick shells in contact in LS-DYNA As a simulation engineer, we always like quick access to experimental data. Over During one of my recent trips, a question the years, with a powerful framework was raised about how LS-DYNA treats that was developed within d3VIEW, this thick shells in contact in particular if the is now possible to import and visualize contact would detect the surface sides. experimental data. With a few This simulation Thickshells in contact configurations, you can further tie this shows that LS-DYNA treats the with simulation data for easy overlay and thickshells as solids in which all external comparison. This following video shows (free) surfaces are included in the how it can be done contact. ERODING contact would also regenerate the free surfaces upon element deletion..

http://blog.d3view.com/

Galactic Super-Volcano

in Action

Eruption of a galactic “super-volcano” in the massive galaxy M87. Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/KIPAC/N. Werner et al Radio: NSF/NRAO/AUI/W. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/10-110.html

A galactic "super-volcano" in the massive evolution of the galaxies in which they galaxy M87 is erupting and blasting gas live," said Norbert Werner of the Kavli outwards, as witnessed by NASA's Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Chandra X-ray Observatory and NRAO's Cosmology at SLAC Linear Accelerator Very Large Array. Center, who led one of two papers describing the study. "And it doesn't stop The cosmic volcano is being driven by a there. The black hole's reach extends giant black hole in the galaxy's center ever farther into the entire cluster, and preventing hundreds of millions of similar to how one small volcano can new stars from forming. affect practically an entire hemisphere on

Earth." Astronomers studying this black hole and its effects have been struck by the The cluster surrounding M87 is filled with remarkable similarities between it and a hot gas glowing in X-ray light, which is volcano in Iceland that made headlines detected by Chandra. As this gas cools, it early this year. can fall toward the galaxy's center where

it should continue to cool even faster and At a distance of about 50 million light form new stars. years, M87 is relatively close to Earth and lies at the center of the Virgo However, radio observations with the cluster, which contains thousands of Very Large Array suggest that in M87 galaxies. M87's location, coupled with jets of very energetic particles produced long observations over Chandra's by the black hole interrupt this process. lifetime, has made it an excellent subject These jets lift up the relatively cool gas for investigations of how a massive black near the center of the galaxy and hole impacts its environment. produce shock waves in the galaxy's

atmosphere because of their supersonic "Our results show in great detail that speed. supermassive black holes have a surprisingly good control over the

15 The scientists involved in this research blasting the galaxy free of the gas that have found the interaction of this cosmic would otherwise cool and form stars. "eruption" with the galaxy's environment to be very similar to that of the "This gas could have formed hundred of Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which forced millions stars as massive as our own much of Europe to close its airports Sun, if the black hole had not removed it earlier this year. from the center of the galaxy. That seems like a much worse disruption than With Eyjafjallajokull, pockets of hot gas what the airline companies on Earth had blast through the surface of the lava, to put up with earlier this year," said generating shock waves that can be seen Evan Million, a graduate student at passing through the grey smoke of the Stanford University and lead-author of volcano. The hot gas then rises up in the the second paper to be published about atmosphere, dragging the dark ash with this deep study of M87. it. This process can be seen in a movie of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano where the The eruption in M87 that lifted up the shock waves propagating in the smoke cooler gas must have occurred about are followed by the rise of dark ash 150 million years earlier, but a smaller clouds into the atmosphere. eruption only about 11 million years earlier produced the shock wave. The In the analogy with Eyjafjallajokull, the Chandra image was based on an energetic particles produced in the observation lasting almost 7 days. X-ray vicinity of the black hole rise through the data from ESA's XMM-Newton was also X-ray emitting atmosphere of the used in this study. cluster, lifting up the coolest gas near the center of M87 in their wake, much The two papers describing these results like the hot volcanic gases drag up the appeared in the journal of the Monthly clouds of dark ash. And just like the Notices of the Royal Astronomical volcano here on Earth, shockwaves can Society. NASA's Marshall Space Flight be seen when the black hole pumps Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the energetic particles into the cluster gas. Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The "This analogy shows that even though Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory astronomical phenomena can occur in controls Chandra's science and flight exotic settings and over vast scales, the operations from Cambridge, Mass. physics can be very similar to events on Earth," said co-author Aurora More information, including images and Simionescu, also of the Kavli Institute. In other multimedia, can be found at:

M87, the plumes of cooler gas being http://chandra.harvard.edu lifted upwards contain as much mass as all of the gas contained within 12,000 light years of the center of the galaxy cluster. This shows the black hole- powered volcano is very efficient at

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Benchmarks

LS-DYNA®

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Vendor/Submitter SGI/Applications Engineering

Computer/Interconnect Altix XE1300/Mellanox® Technologies MT26428 ConnectX® IB QDR

Processor Intel® Xeon® Six Core X5670 2.93GHz

#Nodes x #Processors per Node x #Cores Per Processor = Total #CPU 11 x 2 x 6 = 132 105 neon_refined_revised

10 x 2 x 6 = 120 111 neon_refined_revised 8 x 2 x 6 = 96 125 neon_refined_revised 4 x 2 x 6 = 48 197 neon_refined_revised 2 x 2 x 6 = 24 334 neon_refined_revised 1 x 2 x 6 = 12 586 neon_refined_revised 16 x 2 x 6 = 192 810 3 Vehicle Collision 14 x 2 x 6 = 168 905 3 Vehicle Collision 8 x 2 x 6 = 96 1360 3 Vehicle Collision 26 x 2 x 6 = 312 658 3 Vehicle Collision 32 x 2 x 6 = 384 4005 car2car 30 x 2 x 6 = 360 4113 car2car

SGI

Cloud Computing

LS-DYNA core use by the month

SGI Cloud Computing For LS-DYNA Customers

For LS-DYNA customers that need additional LS-DYNA core use by the month, the week, or the day contact [email protected]

The SGI technology at Cyclone's core Cluster Manager provide system is comprised of some of the world's scheduling and management. fastest supercomputing hardware architectures, including SGI® Altix® With Cyclone's SaaS model, SGI scale-up, Altix® ICE scale-out and delivers access to leading-edge open Altix® XE hybrid clusters, all based source applications and best-of-breed on Intel® Xeon® or Itanium® commercial software platforms from processors. The hybrid architecture top Independent Software Vendors offers either NVIDIA® Tesla GPUs or (ISVs). AMD FireStream™ GPU compute accelerators for floating point double Supported applications include: precision workloads, and Tilera accelerators for integer workloads. OpenFOAM, NUMECA, Acusolve, LS- High performance SGI InfiniteStorage Dyna, Gaussian, Gamess, NAMD, systems are available for scratch Gromacs, LAMMPS, BLAST, FASTA, space and long-term archival of HMMER, ClustalW and OntoStudio. customer data. SGI expects to add additional domains and applications partners At the system software level, Cyclone over time… offers a flexible computing environment with the choice of Complete information at: Novell® SUSE® or Red Hat® Linux® operating systems, further http://www.sgi.com/products/hpc_cloud/ performance-optimized through the addition of SGI® ProPack™. Altair PBS Professional® and SGI® ISLE™

Pre-Processing

Post Processing

Model Editing

A preprocessor is a program that processes its input data to produce output. This data is then used as input to another program.

BETA CAE Systems S.A. Oasys, Ltd http://www.beta-cae.gr/ http://www.oasys- software.com/dyna/en/ Provides complete CAE pre- and post- processing solutions. ANSA, the world Oasys Primer is a model editor for wide standard pre-processor and full preparation of LS-DYNA input decks. - product modeler for LS-DYNA, with Oasys D3Plot is a 3D visualization integrated Data Management and Task package for post-processing LS-DYNA Automation. μETA, with special features analyses using OpenGL® (SGI) graphics. for the high performance an effortless 3D & 2D post-processing of LS-DYNA JSOL Corporation results.

http://www.jsol.co.jp/english/cae/ Engineering Technology Associates, JVISION is a general purpose pre-post Inc. processor for FEM software. Designed to prepare data for, as well as support, http://www.inventiumsuite.com various types of analyses, and to PreSys is an advanced Pre/Post facilitate the display of the subsequent Processor. PreSys is a full-featured, core results. solution that can be used on its own or with a variety of available add-on Livermore Software Technology applications. The system offers Corporation advanced automeshing tools to provide the highest quality mesh with little CAD http://www.lstc.com data preparation. It also features a LS-PrePostis an advanced interactive scripting interface and model explorer program for preparing input data for LS- feature for in-depth data navigation. DYNA and processing the results from LS-DYNA analyses.

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OASYS software for LS-DYNA specialist functions for rapid generation of error-free models. Oasys also offers http://www.oasys- post-processing software for in-depth software.com/dyna/en/ analysis of results and automatic report Oasys software is custom-written for generation. 100% compatibility with LS-DYNA. Oasys

PRIMER offers model creation, editing and error removal, together with many

Software & Hardware Alliances

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ESI Group Visual-CRASH For DYNA Group’s Open VTOS, an open collaborative multi-disciplinary http://www.esi-group.com engineering framework, Visual-Crash for Visual-Crash for LS-DYNA helps DYNA allows users to focus and rely on engineers perform crash and safety high quality digital models from start to simulations in the smoothest and fastest finish. Leveraging this state of the art possible way by offering an intuitive environment, Visual Viewer, visualization windows-based graphical interface with and plotting solution, helps analyze LS- customizable toolbars and complete DYNA results within a single user session support. Being integrated in ESI interface.

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FEA Participants

SMP & MPP Hardware & OS

For LS-DYNA®

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Linux Windows 64 bit INTEL Xeon

IRIX 6.5 X SGI Mips

SUSE 9 w/Propack 4 RedHat w/Propack 3 SGI IA64

FEA Participants

MPP and Interconnect and MPI

For LS-DYNA®

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Vendor O/S HPC Interconnect MPI Software

CRAY XD1 Linux

HP PA8000 HPUX

HPIA64 HPUX

Open MPI, InfiniBand (Voltaire), INTEL IA32 Linux, Windows MPICH, MyriCom HP MPI, SCALI Open MPI, INTEL IA64 Linux MPICH, HP MPI Open MPI, InfiniBand (Topspin, Linux x86-64 MPICH, INTEL Xeon Voltaire), MyriCom, Windows 64 HP MPI, INTEL PathScale InfiniPath ICR, SCALI

SGI Mips IRIX 6.5 X NUMAlink MPT

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Crash Test Dummy Models

Anthropomorphic Test Devices Crashest Devices Websites/Information

FEA Information

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LSTC's Models

http://www.lstc.com/models/

Arup Cellbond Barrier Models

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Arup Pedestrian Impactor Models http://www.oasys-software.com/dyna/en/fe-models/pedestrian.shtml

Arup RCAR Barrier Model

http://www.oasys-software.com/dyna/en/fe-models/rcar.shtml

DYNAMore Models for

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LS-DYNA Dummy Mailing List

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SUPPORT SITES FOR LS-DYNA

The Official LS-OPT Support site

http://www.lsoptsupport.com

LS-OPT User's Group on Google

A new LS-OPT User Group has been established. The intention of this group is to support LS-OPT users and to provide useful information according to LS-OPT. In addition, the user group provides the possibility to get in contact with other users and to share experience on the application of LS-OPT.

In order to subscribe to the group, please use the following (external) link: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=groups2&passive=1209600&conti nue=http://groups.google.com/group/lsopt_user_group&followup=http://groups.google.co m/group/lsopt_user_group

The Official LS-OPT Support site [http://www.lsoptsupport.com] is jointly Examples monitored by DYNAmore GmbH This Section demonstrates LS-OPT (Germany) and LSTC (US) capabilities by means of a series of examples The LS-OPT support site was jointly developed to keep you updated with Glossary current information. During January 2010 Alpha order to view definitions such as the site will be updated with Anova, Bias error, Iteration and other technical terms. “Getting Started” A first place to stop for new users to view Downloads the LS-OPTui and the basic procedures of Downloads specific to LS-OPT optimization with LS-OPT. FAQ's How To’s Questions related to Optimization, A collection of information and examples Robustness and Reliability Analysis for several tasks with LS-OPT Answers are posted on the LS-OPT Support Site Documents http://www.lsoptsupport.com/faqs A collection of documents related to LS- News OPT, Optimization and Stochastics Latest news relation to, or about LS-OPT

9th German LS-DYNA User Forum

12th – 13th October, 2010,

Bamberg, Germany

DYNAmore invites to the German LS- DYNA Forum, 12 - 13 October 2010 in Online registration at Bamberg/Germany. www.dynamore.de/forum2010e/registration

Approximately 80 papers from users and Additionally, we offer three pre and post developers, including keynote conference seminars, held in English presentations from: language:

 Prof. M. Kaliske (TU Dresden), Corpuscular Method - Simulate  S. Frik (Opel), Airbag Unfolding,  H. Klamser (Porsche), by Dr. J. Wang (LSTC),  K. Wiegand (Daimler), October 11 in Stuttgart  C. Lemaitre (Faurecia), http://www.dynamore.de/seminars/passive-  T. Zeguer (Jaguar Cars), safety/cpm-airbag  P. Du Bois (Consultant)  J. O. Hallquist (LSTC) ALE and Fluid-Structure Interaction in LS-DYNA Special emphasis will be on fibre by Prof. M. Souli reinforced plastics and advanced (LSTC/University of Lille), occupant analysis, along with the October 14-15 in Bamberg, contributions from the main applications http://www.dynamore.de/seminars/new- crash and sheet metal forming. methods/ale

The majority of presenters will use Blast Modelling with LS-DYNA – English slides and some of the Protective Structures, Vehicles, Security presentations will be held in English Threats language. If requested, se-lected by Paul Du Bois (Consultant) presentations will be translated Dr. Len Schwer (SE&CS), simultaneously. October 14-15 in Bamberg http://www.dynamore.de/seminars/defence/ blast The detailed agenda is available at www.dynamore.de/forum2010e

2010 EnginSoft International Conference CAE Technologies for Industry and ANSYS Italian Conference

21-22 October 2010, Fiera Montichiari, Brescia - Italy

For more than 20 years, the EnginSoft challenges, and explore new International Conference on “CAE business opportunities Technologies for Industry” has been the reference event for the VP community in …in a word: the ideal occasion to discuss Italy, offering unique insights into: today's limitless applications of current and future values of software “simulation based engineering and technologies, background trends, sciences” in the true sense of the outstanding achievements, conference motto: “Believe in groundbreaking scientific developments innovation: simulate the world” and the visions of those who realize advancements. The annual conference takes place concurrently with the ANSYS Italian The accompanying exhibition will see the Users’ Meeting. world's leading CAE and VP solution providers showcasing products and The conference program highlights services covering all aspects of the applications in automotive, aerospace, technologies and their successful energy, marine, oil & gas, consumer implementation. goods, environment, biomedicine and others and presents the use of the Delegates and exhibitors use the following software: exhibition as an international networking ANSYS - ANSYS CFX - ANSYS FLUENT - forum to gain new insights, share ANSYS ICEM CFD - modeFRONTIER - experiences and find new business ANSOFT - -FLOWMASTER - MAGMASOFT opportunities. - FORGE - FTI - THIRD WAVE SYSTEM

The 2010 EnginSoft International LSTC’s LS-DYNA® Conference also offers:  a think tank bringing together Submit a talk, attend the conference, executives from industry, visit the exhibition and/or be an research, academia and exhibitor: www.caeconference.com technology providers  a panel of simulation-based engineering and science experts and technology experts  an informal environment for delegates, technology providers, managers and experts to meet and share experiences, address key industry issues and

ERAB

The Nordic LS-DYNA Users' Forum

Sponsored by Microsoft Engineering Research organizes the Nordic LS-DYNA Users' Forum biannually. http://www.erab.se/?page+conf_registration Nordic LS-DYNA Users' Forum: FREE of CHARGE, About expect 200 attendees from the Nordic countries and Baltic states. The Nordic LS-DYNA Users' Forum will be held at Fars Hatt , Training and Seminars Gothenburg, on October 14 2010. The forum brings together LS-DYNA In close connection to the forum, users, researchers and developers we are pleased to offer the to discuss LS-DYNA developments following training classes and and its applications in simulations of seminars in Gothenburg. complex mechanical problems. Developers from LSTC will •LS-DYNA Introductory course participate to inform about the latest developments in LS-DYNA, Date: Monday October 11 - LS-PrePostand LS-OPT. Specially Wednesday October 13. invited speakers will talk about how LS-DYNA simulations contribute to •ANSA and mETA Introduction their companies and products. We Date: Thusday October 12 - Wednesday October 13.

TRAINING COURSES

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For changes for accuracy please see the company websites.

France – AS+ www.asplus.fr September

14-16 LS-DYNA Introduction (explicit) 17 LS-OPT Introduction 27 LS-DYNA Implicit – Introduction 28 LS-DYNA Implicit - Advanced 29 LS-PrePost3.0 – Switch from 2.4 to 3.0 30 LS-PrePost3.0 – Advanced Meshing capabilities

 UK - Oasys http://www.oasys-software.com/dyna/en/training/

Oasys PRIMER – For further information or to enrol An Introduction 1 FREE 27th Sep on any of the courses listed below 2010 please contact: Katherine Groves LS-DYNA Introductory Course 0121 213 3399 at 25th-27th Oct 2010 [email protected] .

TRAINING COURSES DYNAmore

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For Full Course List and Dated: http://www.dynamore.de/seminars/infodays DYNAstart - Getting Started with LS- DYNA Simulation of Drop Tests with LS- DYNA Ingolstadt, Sep 22, 2010 Traboch, Austria, Nov 03, 2010 Stuttgart, Oct 28, 2010 Stuttgart, Nov 10, 2010 Stuttgart, Dec 14, 2010 Introduction to Forming Simulation using LS-DYNA and ETA/DYNAFORM Possibilities of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) with LS-DYNA Stuttgart, Nov 09, 2010

Stuttgart, Sep 30, 2010 Visual-Crash DYNA - Environment for LS-DYNA LS-DYNA Application in Civil Engineering Stuttgart, Nov 24, 2010

Stuttgart, Oct 05, 2010 Dynamic Material Characterisation using 4A Impetus Capabilities of LS-DYNA/Implicit Stuttgart, Dec 01, 2010 Stuttgart, Oct 20, 2010

Occupant Safety Support Day Support Day

Stuttgart, Oct 22, 2010 Stuttgart, Dec 06, 2010 Stuttgart, Dec 17, 2010 Current LS-DYNA Trends and Delevopments for Forming Simulations

Stuttgart, Dec 09, 2010

TRAINING COURSES

LSTC

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LSTC Course Coordinator: Cathie Walton [email protected] (248) 649-4728 x221

Course Location Start Date End Date ALE Advanced Application (AAA) CA 8/25/2010 8/27/2010 Contact in LS-DYNA MI 9/1/2010 9/2/2010 LS-PrePost (no charge with Intro to LS-DYNA) MI 9/13/2010 9/13/2010 Intro to LS-DYNA (3-1/2 days; half day on MI 9/14/2010 9/17/2010 Friday) Concrete & Geomaterial Modeling CA 9/14/2010 9/15/2010 Modeling & Simulation with LS-DYNA CA 9/16/2010 9/17/2010 Blast Modeling with LS-DYNA CA 9/20/2010 9/21/2010 Penetration Modeling with LS-DYNA CA 9/22/2010 9/23/2010 LS-PrePost *new date* (no charge w/ Intro to CA 11/15/2010 11/15/2010 LS-DYNA) Intro to LS-DYNA *new dates* (3.5 days; 1/2 CA 11/16/2010 11/19/2010 day Friday) LS-OPT *new dates* (3-1/2 days; half day on CA 11/30/2010 12/3/2010 Friday) Advanced Options in LS-DYNA CA 12/9/2010 12/10/2010 LS-PrePost (no charge with Intro to LS-DYNA) MI 12/13/2010 12/13/2010 Intro to LS-DYNA (3-1/2 days; half day on MI 12/14/2010 12/17/2010 Friday)

Isogeometric Analysis 2011 www.ices.utexas.edu/iga January 13-15, 2011, Austin Texas Integrating Design and Analysis

Dr. David Benson [email protected]

Contact: Ruth Hengst - e-mail [email protected]

Geometry is the foundation of have demonstrated the most analysis yet modern methods of potential so far are Subdivision computational geometry have until Surfaces, NURBS, and T-Splines. recently had very little impact on NURBS are the industry standard for analysis. The reason may be that CAGD systems used in engineering Finite Element Analysis (FEA), as we design. NURBS-based isogeometric know it today, was developed in the analysis has already been applied to 1950’s and 1960’s, before the advent fluids, structures, fluid-structure and widespread use of Computer interaction, phase-field modeling, Aided Geometric Design (CAGD), electromagnetics, shape and topology which occurred in the 1970’s and optimization, material modeling (e.g., 1980’s. The CAGD – FEA interface implicit gradient damage models), gives rise to many problems. discrete and diffuse modeling of crack propagation, etc. T-Splines, which are Perhaps the most significant of all is a generalization of NURBS that allow the problem of translating CAGD files efficient local refinement while into analysis-suitable FEA geometry maintaining higher-order continuity and meshing, reputed to take 80% of and exact geometry, have recently overall analysis time for complex attracted increasing attention. The engineering designs. The purpose of this workshop is to bring approximate, polynomial-based together experts in geometry and geometry of FEA also creates analysis interested in the difficulties in modeling sliding contact, development of the new generation of flows about aerodynamic shapes, analysis procedures based on modern buckling of thin shells, etc. It would methods of computational geometry. seem that it is time to look at more The workshop will focus on: powerful descriptions of geometry to provide a new and more efficient  Analysis-suitable geometry basis for analysis. An attempt to  Mathematics of isogeometric address these issues and improve on methods FEA has led to the introduction and  New isogeometric analysis development of Isogeometric technologies Analysis, in which a single geometric  Applications representation is utilized for design  Implementation and software and analysis. Among the approaches  History of CAGD and FEA that have been proposed, those that

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4th ANSA & μETA International by Engineering Research Nordic Conference, AB June 1-3, 2011, Makedonia Palace, Thessaloniki, Greece 8th MIRA International Vehicle Aerodynamics Conference NAFEMS Nordic Regional Summit October 13-14, 2010, Grove, 2010: Trends and Future Needs in United Kingdom organized by Engineering Simulation, MIRA October 26–27, 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden organized by Open Source CFD International NAFEMS Conference 2010, November 4-5, 2010, Munich, German LS-DYNA User Forum Germany organized by ICON October 12-13, 2010, Bamberg, Germany organized by DYNAmore SIMVEC - Berechnung und GmbH Simulation im Fahrzeugbau, November 16-17, 2010, Baden- LS-DYNA Nordic Users' Forum, Baden, Germany organized by VDI October 14, 2010, Kungälv (Gothenburg), Sweden organized

HP has earned the Excellence in Service Operations certification

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2010/100812a.html

Sole PC manufacturer to win coveted industry recognition Auditors from TSIA closely review management policies and procedures. HP PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 12, 2010 support operations were compared against nearly 300 industry best HP has earned the Excellence in Service practices, including executive Operations certification from the commitment, talent management, Technology Services Industry Association support tools and technology, and (TSIA) for providing superior technical operation metrics. The rigorous onsite support and services in North America. and surveillance audit process was conducted by a panel of seasoned This marks the third consecutive year HP service executives with more than 20 has achieved recognition for commercial years of experience. notebook and desktop PC support, and the second year HP was certified in the “We are committed to making consumer market, including both PCs investments that continually improve and printers. customer experiences,” said Antonio Neri, vice president, Customer HP remains the sole PC manufacturer to Experience and Warranty Services, receive this coveted industry recognition Personal Systems Group, HP. This in 2010, which comprises a certification means HP customers can comprehensive evaluation of phone, field purchase PCs and printers with the service and web service operations for confidence that they are not only customers. receiving quality products, but also quality support. “HP is to be commended for excellent preparation and execution,” said Joanne Earlier this year, HP received the TSIA Weigel, senior director, Organizational Service Excellence STAR Award for Certification Programs, TSIA. “Most Innovative Support. This award notable were enhancements in HP recognizes companies that use Web 2.0 escalation management processes, tools and processes to create an interactive voice response telephone engaging online community of customers support and online support forums.” and partners. HP is also a recipient of the 40

TSIA STAR Awards Hall of Fame Lifetime healthcare IT, and industrial automation. Achievement Award, which is given to TSIA brings the technology services companies that have won 10 or more industry together www.tsia.com. individual STAR Awards. About HP About TSIA HP creates new possibilities for The Technology Services Industry technology to have a meaningful impact Association (TSIA) is the leading on people, businesses, governments and association dedicated to advancing the society. The world’s largest technology business of technology services. company, HP brings together a portfolio Technology services organizations large that spans printing, personal computing, and small look to TSIA for world-class software, services and IT infrastructure benchmarking and research, exceptional to solve customer problems. More peer networking and learning information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is opportunities, and high-profile available at http://www.hp.com/. certification and awards programs. We ------keep their business leaders informed and connected through a full range of © 2010 Hewlett-Packard Development programs and services that tackle real- Company, L.P. The information contained world service business challenges, herein is subject to change without providing real-world solutions. TSIA notice. HP shall not be liable for technical corporate members represent the world’s or editorial errors or omissions contained top technology companies as well as herein. scores of innovative small and midsize businesses in four major markets: Editorial contacts: enterprise IT and telecom, consumer technologies and carriers, healthcare and Nora Hahn, HP: [email protected]

ESI Announces VA One 2010

Latest release of noise and vibration software includes advanced methods for response diagnosis

VA One model of sound radiated by Furthermore, the low frequency Finite vehicle horn at 2kHz (using Indirect Fast Element and Boundary Element modules Multipole BEM analysis) Paris, France – include expanded functionality for panel July 29, 2010 contribution analysis to help identify key radiating surfaces. VA One is a complete solution for simulating noise and vibration across the The VA One 2010 release also includes full frequency range and seamlessly functionality for calculating complex or combines Finite Elements, Boundary coupled modes for any combination of Elements, and Statistical Energy Analysis Finite Element, Boundary Element, (SEA) in a single model. This new release Poroelastic Element and SEA subsystems includes over 80 major enhancements in a model. This new functionality is and is focused on improved methods for ideal for diagnosing damped resonances, response diagnosis. particularly in open systems or for systems that contain foam and fiber Advanced methods for response noise control treatments. diagnosis Diagnosing the response of a system is The Fast Multilevel Multipole Boundary an important step in a vibro-acoustic Element (FMM BEM) solver has also been analysis that can provide physical significantly enhanced and now covers a insights and help guide the design of wider kD range and includes both direct various counter measures. The VA One and indirect formulations. This enables 2010 release simplifies this process and FMM BEM models to be applied to a includes advanced methods to be applied broader range of applications across a to this task. In particular, the Statistical wider frequency range. Energy Analysis (SEA) module now includes functionality for automatic The Hybrid module has been identification of dominant transmission complemented and includes new paths (using advanced algorithms from functionality for quickly modeling the Graph Theory), along with sensitivity mid-frequency response of unbaffled analysis for quickly determining the key structures such as satellite antennas and parameters that control the response. solar arrays. A significant number of 42 improvements have also been made to the VA One environment to simplify About ESI Group model management and improve ESI is a pioneer and world-leading productivity. solution provider in virtual prototyping that takes into account the physics of "At VTT we provide high-end technology materials. ESI has developed an solutions and innovation services that extensive suite of coherent, industry- enhance our customers’ oriented applications to realistically competitiveness”, said Jukka Tanttari, simulate a product’s behavior during Senior Research Scientist, VTT. “VA One testing, to fine-tune manufacturing is a standard tool in our analysis process processes in accordance with desired and helps us diagnose and improve product performance, and to evaluate vibro-acoustic performance." the environment’s impact on performance. ESI’s solutions fit into a "We are pleased to announce the release single collaborative and open of VA One 2010”, said Dr. Phil Shorter, environment for End-to-End Virtual Director of Vibro-Acoustic Product Prototyping, thus eliminating the need Operations, ESI Group. “This release for physical prototypes during product includes over 80 major enhancements development. The company employs across all modules and ensures that our over 750 high-level specialists worldwide users have access to state-of-the-art covering more than 30 countries. ESI methods for vibro-acoustic analysis and Group is listed in compartment C of design". NYSE Euronext Paris. For further information, visit www.esi-group.com For more information, please visit: www.esi-group.com/products/vibro- acoustics .

LS-PrePost3.0

Now Released

This version of LS-PrePost has a module, this can create and handle completely new graphical interface plus simple to very complex geometry data many new features. One of the most and definitions. important additions is the Geometry

User Interface

The new user interface is in the style of area for the model rendering and at the current Windows applications with tool same time allows users to define their bars and icons used for the main menu own toolbars with frequently used icons system to replace the old text based put together in any fashion. Besides button scheme. This new interface using icons and toolbars, a pull down provides the maximum possible graphical menu system is provided to select 44 application features and interface time. So when a new one is opened the dialogues. Popup dialogues are used for previous one is set down. This is done to each main functional operation. Only one avoid cluttering the graphical area. functional operational is active at one F11 Function

All settings of the GUI are saved automatically in a configuration file that resides in the user's home directory, and ensures that a subsequent launch of LS-Prepost3.0 will have the same look and feel as the previous session.

The F11 Function:

For those users that are not comfortable with the new interface, New interface, after press F11 there is an easily switch back to the old interface by pressing the F11 function key. However, new features such as the geometry data manipulation will not be available in the old interface.

Pressing function key F11 will toggle between the old and the new interfaces, however, some features like IGES files are on transferrable between the old and new interface

Old interface

Transitioning from old to new interface

The icons in the new interface can be set to have text or without text on the Icons, having text will provide easier recognition.

Also, an "Old to new" interface button system has been implemented to transition users from the old interface to the new interface.

“Old to New” interface to transition to new icons

Icons without text and icons with text

Geometry Processing Engine

The major feature in LS-PrePost3.0 is the the geometry data after it has been newly developed geometry processing cleaned gives a much better mesh, and engine. This processing engine is based requires less subsequent mesh editing on Open Cascade Technology 6.3, which and cleaning. Geometry data can be supports basic geometry entities such as created using the existing geometry vertices, lines, surfaces, and solids. It editing functions or imported via iges or supports shape fixing and reshaping, Step file format. Modified geometry can small holes and small edges removal, be exported in iges or Step file format. duplicated surfaces removal, vertex In addition, surfaces can be created from reposition and deletion, and small faces an existing mesh using LSTC’s own removal or face extension. It also reverse engineering module. supports faces stitching to provide fully connected geometry topologies. Meshing

New surfaces auto-mesher for metal forming

Coupling with the capability in the previous LS-PrePostversions. The speed geometry processing engine, a of this new mesher in general, is at least completely new surface auto mesher for 10 to 20 times faster than the old metal forming applications has been version depending on the size and the developed. It creates much better mesh complexity of the model. compare with the tool mesher in the

New Applications

Besides, the new interface and geometry setup, Granular flow setup, and Airbag processing engine. New LS-DYNA impact setup. An application frame work application preprocessing has been has been created such that new added to the LS-PrePost3.0 such as: applications can be easily added in the Roller Hemming job setup, ALE job future

Documentation and Help

Documentation is with the program, provided in the Help Menu.

Supported systems and downloads:

Both 32bit and 64bit Windows XP/Vista/Win7 are supported. For Linux systems, only 64bit version is available. Users can download the new released version from LSTC's ftp directories: ftp://ftp.lstc.com/outgoing/lsprepost/3.0/win32 or ftp://ftp.lstc.com/outgoing/lsprepost/3.0/win64 or ftp://ftp.lstc.com/outgoing/lsprepost/3.0/linux64

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