Virtual Crash Test Dummies: A Data Management Test

Using its SLM tool to automate and manage huge data sources, SIMULIA accelerates the qualification process for its Abaqus FEA crash test dummy models from weeks to days.

Physical crash dummies may have dozens of sensors and other sophisticated mechanical parts, but their digital brethren can be just as complicated. With more than 100,000 elements and dozens of validation tests to manage, companies delivering the complex FEA simulation models that lie at the heart of the virtual crash test dummies are starting to leverage a new type of software platform to facilitate the process.

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R&DE picks Abaqus FEA software for composites work

Dassault Systèmes (DS, Paris, France and Providence, R.I., USA) announced that Research and Development Establishment (Engineers) (R&DE (E), Pune, India) has selected Abaqus Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software from SIMULIA to meet its virtual testing requirements. R&DE (E) is an engineering group working with metal and composite materials to drive innovation in structural and mechanical systems through research, collaboration, and the use of state of the art technology.

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Dassault Systemes Announces New Release of Abaqus FEA from SIMULIA

Lower Development Costs and Accelerate Innovation Through Improved Realistic Simulation Capabilities

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Dassault Systemes Announces New Release of Abaqus FEA from SIMULIA

Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of Abaqus 6.9, its technology-leading unified finite element analysis (FEA) product suite from SIMULIA.
Abaqus is used by designers, engineers, and researchers in a broad range of industries, including electronics, consumer packaged goods, aerospace, automotive, energy, and life sciences to evaluate real-world behavior of materials, products, and manufacturing processes. This release delivers key new capabilities for fracture and failure, high-performance computing, and noise and vibration. In addition, SIMULIA is continuing to enrich the product suite with capabilities for modeling, meshing, contact, materials, and multiphysics.

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Verity for Abaqus Analyzes Reliability of Welded Joints

Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, announced the availability of Verity for Abaqus, from the DS SIMULIA brand, for simulating realistic structural stress in welded joints and other connections. Verity for Abaqus, a new add-on product for Abaqus FEA software, enables engineers to easily and accurately predict a consistent stress characterization for welded joints in industrial applications such as pressure vessels, piping, storage tanks, offshore platforms, and construction equipment. The new product is based on the Verity mesh-insensitive structural stress method from Battelle, the world’s largest non-profit independent research and development organization.

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Cambridge University Students Racing to Design Solar Car in SolidWorks and SIMULIA Abaqus Software

Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that a team of Cambridge University engineering students is using SolidWorks ® 3D CAD and Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA brand to develop a solar-powered car they will race across Australia in the fall of 2009. More spaceship than road vehicle, the car’s flat shape will feature a large solar panel that converts the sun’s energy into speeds of 60 miles per hour or faster as the team races against other teams from around the world.

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Dassault Systemes Announces New Composite Crush Simulation Technology

Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions,  announced the availability of CZone for Abaqus, from the DS SIMULIA brand, for simulating crushing of composite materials.

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STAR-CD V4.08 – Reliable and Accurate Multiphysics Simulation

CD-adapco, the leading global provider of industrial strength solutions for fluid flow, heat transfer and stress, announce the release of STAR-CD V4.08, the fifth major release of STAR-CD V4 and the first software release of 2009.

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Dassault Releases iSIGHT for SIMULIA Abaqus

Dassault Systems (DS), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of iSIGHT for Abaqus, a new product from SIMULIA, the DS brand for realistic simulation, that leverages technology from recently acquired Engineous Software.

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Abaqus Enables Full-Body N&V Simulation

Not surprisingly, competitive pressures in the automotive industry are leading to increased demand for rapid assessment of noise and vibration levels in the early product design stages. Recent developments in large model Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software are making such tasks easier, faster, and more accurate than ever.

Over the years, automotive manufacturers have used increasingly sophisticated Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) tools to improve the design and evaluation process of new vehicle models while minimizing physical prototype testing. Particularly in the case of N&V, more detailed modeling of a complete car body is desired because it allows adjustment of a wide range of factors that can affect customer comfort — and how well a new car may sell.

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