Major Advancements in New Abaqus Release from SIMULIA
 Dassault Systèmes today announced the availability of Abaqus
6.8, its technology-leading unified finite element analysis (FEA)
software suite from SIMULIA. Engineers, designers, researchers, and
scientists use Abaqus to lower costs and reduce cycle times through
the realistic simulation of stress, impact, crush, fluid-structure
interaction, thermal dynamics, and other complex behaviors of
products, materials, and processes.
With a focus on solving specific engineering challenges in
automotive, aerospace, electronics, energy, packaged goods, and
other industry segments, Abaqus 6.8 provides new and improved
capabilities in core areas, including modeling and results
visualization, structural analysis, composites failure, general
contact, computing performance, and multiphysics.
“Abaqus FEA software provides the robust contact capabilities
that we need to study complex loading and structural interactions
while designing our large, two-stroke diesel engines,” stated
Per Rønnedal, senior manager, R&D new design, MAN
Diesel. “With the new capabilities in Abaqus 6.8, we have
seen memory usage significantly reduced when running linear static
analyses with multiple load cases. These improvements will allow us
to test a number of design alternatives to optimize our diesel
engine performance during early product development.”
“This latest release of Abaqus Unified FEA software is
another milestone in our long history of developing simulation
technology that accelerates our customers’ evaluation of
real-world behavior of their products and processes,” stated
Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault
Systèmes. “With literally hundreds of new features and
customer-requested enhancements, Abaqus 6.8 demonstrates
SIMULIA’s commitment to technical excellence,
industry-focused solutions, and customer satisfaction.”
Designers and engineers in all industries are able to leverage
Abaqus 6.8 to deepen their knowledge of real-world structural
behavior and accelerate the development of innovative products.
Among the latest advancements are:
Fully built-in and improved composites analysis capabilities that
enable aerospace engineers to efficiently simulate the behavior of
composite crack propagation, delamination, and possible failure.
Industry-unique capabilities that allow automotive engineers to
capture full-vehicle noise and vibration response due to tire
rolling effects and viscoelastic material effects from tires,
bushings, isolators, and laminated steel.
A low-cycle fatigue method that assists electronics engineers in
assessing the lifecycle of solder joints. This method is also
useful for evaluating powertrain durability and bone degradation in
biomechanical applications.
A new anisotropic hyperelastic material model that enables medical
device developers to simulate soft tissue interaction with stents
and orthopedic implants. This model can also be used to analyze
materials such as reinforced rubber and wood.
A new Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) multiphysics capability
that allows industrial equipment manufacturers to predict loads on
earth-moving equipment during soil excavation. The capability can
also be used to predict the behavior of fluid-filled containers,
hydroplaning tires, and bird-strike on aircraft.
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