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Recent Software Updates
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9/7/2006
Material Library Manager
- Improved support for nonlinear material models
Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver
- Added capability to print strain and stress results for beams
- Improved memory usage for large models
- Improved setup for surface-to-surface contact involving many surfaces
Superview Results Environment
- Improved load case combination utility
6/30/2006
Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver- Added faster, industry-standard sparse solver
- Added distributed memory processing for 32- and 64-bit Linux (Red Hat)
- Added slide/no bounce contact for more accurate simulation and faster convergence for applications where relative sliding is negligible such as a press-fit process
- Added tied contact (functions like bonded contact even if nodes are not matched)
- Added new thin shell element formulation with bilinear von Mises material model
- Added anisotropic temperature-dependent general piezoelectric material models
Superview IV Results Environment - Added capability to display the results of user-supplied functions operating on calculated results, user-supplied constraints and material properties
- Added additional color contour options
- Added options for surface-based selection and display
- Improved inquiry functionality
4/3/2006
Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver- Added gasket material model and element (2- and 3-D, geometrically linear and nonlinear)
- Improved surface-to-surface contact
- Improved support for shell, hydrodynamic and kinematic elements
Superview IV Results Environment - Added capability to display stresses calculated from average stress tensors
- Added capability to display pipe element stresses from an MES or nonlinear analysis
- Added beam offset visualization
- Improved capability to save and restore animation settings
1/16/2006
Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver- Added 64-bit Windows support
- Added support for all material models and element types in nonlinear modal analysis
- Improved support for hydrostatic pressure loads on shell elements
Superview IV Results Environment - Added 2-D stress linearization utility (including axisymmetric models) for evaluating a design's compliance with industry standards such as the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC)
- Added non-time-dependent graphs
- Added export capability to OpenHSF
- Improved 3-D beam visualization including making it the default
- Improved robustness of presentations
- Improved probe behavior with slice planes
- Improved zoom level persistence
- Improved part selection tools
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