ABAQUS FOR CATIA V5 VERSION 2.3 ANNOUNCED

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ABAQUS FOR CATIA V5 VERSION 2.3 ANNOUNCED
02 January 2007 - NAFEMS

Dassault Systemes announces the availability of Version 2.3 of ABAQUS for CATIA V5. Integrated within the CATIA V5 Product Lifecycle Management solution from Dassault Systemes, the latest software product from the SIMULIA brand improves the deployment of high-value analysis workflows and advanced simulation technology across product development organizations in a wide range of industries, including ground vehicles, aerospace and defense, biomedical, and others.

Version 2.3 of ABAQUS for CATIA V5 takes advantage of the latest technology advances in ABAQUS Version 6.6 and CATIA V5 R16 to deepen its capabilities, with particular emphasis on new enhancements in contact modeling, connections, and usability.

The tight integration of ABAQUS with CATIA enables advanced methods developed and validated by ABAQUS specialists to be deployed to the enterprise as proven analysis workflows. The software enables both design engineers and analysis specialists to use the same FEA methods and models within CATIA V5, ensuring repeatability and accuracy. The latest product release builds on the SIMULIA strategy of providing scalable simulation solutions and an open framework for performing multidisciplinary analysis within the PLM process.

"The new release of ABAQUS for CATIA V5 enhances the accessibility of powerful FEA methods and capabilities within the CATIA V5 PLM environment," says Marc Schrank, director of product management for ABAQUS. "This PLM integrated solution enables our customers to define and deploy proven analysis methods so that design engineers and analysts are able to collaborate on evaluating realistic behavior of their products. It allows companies to do more simulation earlier in the product development process, leading to lower development costs and improved quality of their products."

A number of ABAQUS customers, including companies such as Toyota Motor Company, Honda, Boeing, and PSA Peugeot Citroen, specify and evaluate new features for ABAQUS for CATIA V5 software as members of the AFC Customer Review Team. Improvements to Version 2.3 of ABAQUS for CATIA V5 focus on providing immediate benefits in production environments. New capabilities in the software include:

-- Support of ABAQUS Version 6.6. Takes advantage of complete functionality of ABAQUS/Standard solver capabilities, including contact enhancements and performance improvements.

-- Spot, seam, and surface weld modeling. Leverages the weld modeling functionality of CATIA V5 to enable rapid definition of a large number of rigid or flexible connections. New capabilities and improvements account for spot, seam, and surface welds. Connection locations can be independent of the underlying mesh, which reduces model size and complexity of the meshing requirements. Combined with ABAQUS contact capabilities and the ability to simulate large deformation, the new weld features make ABAQUS for CATIA V5 an attractive analysis tool for airframe and automotive body modeling.

-- ABAQUS continuum shell technology. Enables the modeling of shell structures with continuum shell elements, which permits the use of the actual CAD geometry of the structure rather than determining an approximate midplane and appropriate offsets of adjoining components. This approach simplifies modeling and improves accuracy of simulations involving contact.

-- Contact enhancements. Takes advantage of ABAQUS Version 6.6 contact capabilities, including the ability to model applications involving large sliding between parts, using the surface-to-surface formulation. Usability enhancements include the ability to view some or all of the parts in a complex contact analysis, which can assist in confirming the selection of contact surfaces.

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NAFEMS is a not for profit organisation aimed at promoting best practices and also fostering education and awareness in the engineering analysis community. In line with its objectives to promote the effective use of simulation technologies, NAFEMS is continually seeking to create awareness of new analysis methodologies, deliver education & training, and stimulate the adoption of best practices and standards by offering a platform for continuous professional development.

By the late 1970s and early 1980s, as computing power became more widely available, increasingly industry was starting to solve practical engineering problems using finite element analysis techniques.

There was however considerable concern that the accuracy of the methods, and software implementations, required to be verified in order to allow the results to be effectively used.

Following extensive lobbying, by industry and academia, the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) set up, and funded, a project within the National Engineering Laboratory (NEL), based in East Kilbride, Scotland, to investigate the issues.

As a result the National Agency for Finite Element Methods and Standards, quickly shortened to the acronym NAFEMS, was founded as a special interest group in 1983 with a specific objective namely:

"To promote the safe and reliable use of finite element and related technology"

In order to keep engineers abreast of the latest developments in the Analysis World the quarterly magazine BENCHmark was launched by NAFEMS in July 1987.

After seven years of seed funding by the UK government, and with the support of its industrial members, the decision was taken to launch NAFEMS Ltd as an independent not-for-profit company, owned by its member's in 1990.

The company celebrated its 10th Anniversary in 2000, and has developed both the scope of its technology focus and its membership well beyond the original vision.

Today NAFEMS and its members are involved in many different types of engineering simulation covering both products and processes. Membership continues to grow, now exceeding 700 corporate members in over 30 different countries. Steering groups have been set up in the UK, France, Germany, and the USA to co-ordinate local activities and interaction with members.

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