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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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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Over 80% of 2009 Vehicles Debuting at Detroit Auto Show Designed in CATIA

Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, announced that CATIA, the company’s solution for virtual design, was used in the development of over 80 percent of the 24 introductory and concept vehicles making their world debut at the 2009 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) taking place at Cobo Hall in Detroit, January 11-25. Additionally, CATIA was utilized in the design of all NAIAS 2009 North American Car of the Year and 2009 North American Truck of the Year finalists.

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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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Dassault SIMULIA Releases Abaqus for CATIA V5 R18 SP4

Dassault Systems, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of Abaqus for CATIA V5 R18 SP4 from its SIMULIA brand for realistic simulation. This latest release of Abaqus for CATIA V5 provides improved usability and robust design analysis capabilities directly in CATIA V5 to accelerate the product development process.

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Dassault Systèmes Announces Software Partnership with AutoForm

Dassault Systèmes (DS), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that AutoForm Engineering GmbH, a leading global supplier of software solutions, has become a Dassault Systèmes Component Application Architecture (CAA) Software Partner to deliver sheet metal forming solutions integrated with CATIA.

As a DS software community partner, AutoForm will work closely with our R&D teams to enhance the capabilities of their sheet metal forming solutions directly in CATIA, as well as extend their solution through integration within SIMULIA’s realistic simulation product portfolio.

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Dassault Systèmes Announces the Release of SIMULIA SLM for Simulation Lifecycle Management

Dassault Systèmes (DS), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the early availability of SIMULIA SLM, a new product suite from its SIMULIA brand that will have a positive impact on the way that organizations perform and manage their simulation processes.

The use of simulation has become an increasingly vital process in developing innovative products quickly. SIMULIA SLM accelerates the product development lifecycle by providing timely access to the right information through secure storage, search, and retrieval functionality that is specific to simulation processes and data. SIMULIA SLM maximizes the value of company-generated intellectual property (IP) through the capture, re-use, and deployment of simulation best practices. It also provides tools for control and sharing of simulation data for collaborative product development.

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Leading European Analyst Reports ANSYS the Largest Engineering Simulation Software Vendor in Europe

ANSYS, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANSS), a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced that it has been cited as Europe's leader in engineering simulation software sales in a report by 01consulting, which specializes in evaluating the industry on the continent. Of nearly a dozen computer-aided engineering (CAE) software vendors tracked in Europe, ANSYS came out as the overall leader in software sales and as a leading supplier in every European geography and industry sector.

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Dassault's SIMULIA Ships Abaqus 6.7 Extended Functionality. Adds multiphysics fluid/structure interaction, associativity to SolidWorks, collaborative modeling, material library tools, visualization

The release builds on SIMULIA’s promise of delivering a broader set of solutions within an open, unified simulation environment. New capabilities in Abaqus Version 6.7-EF include native technology for multiphysics fluid-structure interaction (FSI), an associative geometry interface to SolidWorks, collaborative modeling capabilities, tools for managing material libraries, and visualization capabilities for solid composites, as well as dozens of additional customer-requested enhancements.

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Dassault Systemes Announces New Student Edition of Abaqus Unified FEA from SIMULIA

Dassault Systemes (DS) announced the release of Abaqus Student Edition Version 6.7, Unified Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software from SIMULIA. Abaqus Student Edition provides engineering students with the same state-of-the art technology included in the professional version of Abaqus. The student edition is available for purchase online and is priced at only (US). New features in this release include improved architecture for high-performance linear dynamics, advanced simulation capabilities for nonlinear materials and composites, and a highly customizable user interface for accelerated model building and results visualization.

The Abaqus Student Edition includes the core Abaqus products: Abaqus/Standard, Abaqus/Explicit, and Abaqus/CAE. Model databases are compatible with other academically-licensed versions of Abaqus so that students perform increasing sophisticated analyses on models originally created in Abaqus Student Edition. The full HTML documentation set provides a thorough, searchable resource for students to find detailed information. 

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