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SAMTECH TO RELEASE THE FEA SUITE SAMCEF V11.1
25 January 2007 - NAFEMS
| SAMTECH, the European technology leader for the development of Integrated Computer Aided Engineering Solutions, announces today the launch of the commercial release 11.1 of its general purpose Finite Element Analysis software suite SAMCEF for linear and non-linear thermo-mechanical analyses. |
SAMCEF is recognised as one of the most powerful FEA suites in the world. It provides all the classical capabilities for linear stress analysis (SAMCEF Asef), buckling analysis (SAMCEF Stabi), modal analysis (SAMCEF Dynam), transient and harmonic response with deterministic (SAMCEF Repdyn) or random loading (SAMCEF Spectral). With respect to its world-class competitors, SAMCEF offers unique capabilities in rotor dynamics (SAMCEF Rotor/RotorT); it is also renowned for its integrated non-linear module SAMCEF Mecano/Thermal embedding in one single solver rigid and flexible multi-body simulation, non linear metallic/composite structures and thermal analysis. Linear modules of SAMCEF can also be used after a non-linear analysis. This allows for example to perform a modal analysis of a pre-stressed structure or to predict the resonances of a flexible mechanism in various configurations. The latest version of SAMCEF is packed full of new features designed to improve the overall performance, robustness, ease-of-use and simulation reliability of the integrated SAMCEF products suite, giving access to more and more challenging analyses. With more than 100 new enhancements, SAMCEF V11.1 offers major advances in mechanical modelling, thermal analysis, coupled physics, parallel computing, analysis solutions and results post-processing. Some important enhancements of SAMCEF V11.1 include: · Enhanced modelling capabilities for large strains mechanical problems;
· Cost efficient quadratic contact formulation;
· New modelling capabilities for coupled fluid structure interaction problems, including easier definition of fluid cavities and free surfaces, automatic handling of heterogeneous meshes and new compressible tetrahedron fluid element;
· Implementation of thermal ablation and pyrolysis analyses (SAMCEF Amaryllis) within the same software environment as SAMCEF Mecano and SAMCEF Thermal;
· Optimized default options of solution strategy parameters in SAMCEF Mecano;
· New time integration schemes in SAMCEF Mecano: Chung-Hulbert and Generalized midpoint method;
· Noticeable performances improvement in terms of models sizes, computation and storage times;
· Implementation of a Parallel Solver in SAMCEF Mecano; SAMCEF V11.1 runs on Linux, Unix and Windows platforms. The Linux versions are now available for processors x86, Itanium2, AMD64 and EM64T. "SAMCEF is used by industry for several decades with major references in all the sectors. After being mainly developed for Aerospace & Defence sector, the use of this high class and well validated software environment was also progressively extended to other sectors of mechanics where high quality and validated numerical simulations are more and more required. The new developments made in SAMCEF by SAMTECH are strategic to help its customers access to the state-of-the-art numerical methods in order to reduce the time-to-market of their products and to lower the development costs". Explains Didier Granville, SAMTECH Chief Marketing Officer. "Depending on the industrial constraints, SAMCEF solvers can be used either directly within CATIAV5 or driven by SAMCEF Field, the standalone and user friendly CAD Based CAE environment developed by SAMTECH. Both user environments offer very efficient and innovative capabilities enabling our customers to be always more competitive."
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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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