FEA Information http://www.feainformation.com Engineering Journal and Website Resource A U G U S T 2 Porsche Celebrates Mathematical Modeling of An 60 Years in America 0 Asteroid Falling into the Ocean 1 0 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. 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Victory, President, FEA Information Inc From engineering to horses - Cajun, re-rescued and home to stay this time. http://www.livermorehorses.com 3 FEA Information Platinum Participants 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 4 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 5 Conference Paper Showcase Mathematical Modeling of An Asteroid Falling into the Ocean . 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-5-5.pdf 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 6 Conference Paper Showcase Simulation of a Thin Walled Aluminum Tube Subjected to Base Acceleration Using LS- DYNA's Vibro-Acoustic Solver . 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-1-2.pdf 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 . 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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.