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2 2004 ABAQUS Regional Users Meetings
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Editor:
Jeff Rankin
Contributors:
Tom Battisti
Rishi Bhalerao
Greg Brown
Karen Curtis
Carly Newman
Mahesh Kailasam
Brian Rose, Frank Kan (SGH)
David Palmer
Marc Schrank
Jan Swaysland
Jon Wiening
Debby Vandermillen
Production Coordinator:
Laura Wistow
The following are trademarks or registered trademarks of ABAQUS, Inc. or its subsidiaries
in the United States and/or other countries: ABAQUS, ABAQUS/Standard, ABAQUS/Explicit,
ABAQUS/CAE, ABAQUS/Viewer, ABAQUS/Aqua; ABAQUS/Design; ABAQUS/Foundation;
and the ABAQUS Logo. Other company, product and service names may be trademarks or
service marks of others.
he annual ABAQUS Users Conference (AUC) is a significant event in many ways. It is a chance
for users to meet each other, an opportunity for us to present future product plans and ideas, and a
way for our development and product management teams to get valuable feedback on how well we
are meeting customers expectations.
I have had the privilege and pleasure of co-chairing the last two AUCs. Based on impromptu conversations
with users and formal event surveys, I have found that what really makes the AUC special is a unique
combination of plainspoken opinion and professional courtesy between customers and ABAQUS employees,
which results in three days of meaningful technical conversations in an enjoyable and warm atmosphere.
Year after year, we have benefited from chance encounters between users and developers at the AUC that go
on to provide the basis for specification, testing, and implementation of significant new functionality in ABAQUS.
At ABAQUS we try hard to make sure that as we grow, we do not lose sight of what makes us different-we are a company of
technologists with passion for our products and close relationships with our customers. The AUC is a crucial ingredient in preserving
this approach. For example, at this years event in Boston, more than 150 of our technical staff were able to attend the conference for
at least one day, which helps to reinforce existing relationships and allows new connections to be made. Without exception, our staff
returned from the AUC with a renewed sense of context, enthusiastic and motivated to improve what we have today and to ensure that
we meet the challenges set by our customers for the future.
You can read more about the 2004 AUC later in this edition. I would like to personally thank all our customers who presented or
contributed papers and participated this year, especially our invited lecturers, Luke Garner of Intel and Jim Mahoney of Honeywell
FM&T. We appreciate the hard work that goes into writing an AUC paper and preparing the associated presentation.
In addition to the annual AUC, we hold Regional Users Meetings each year, beginning in September. These meetings serve a
similar purpose to the AUC but are shorter and less formal. Our local office managers and their support teams tailor the content to
application- or industry-specific topics of interest in their regions, while technical staff from ABAQUS headquarters join these events
to present product plans and meet with users.
I hope you enjoy this issue of Insights, and I invite you to attend one of our Regional Users Meetings over the next few months.
Meet ABAQUS technical staff and other ABAQUS users right down the road, and join the conversation. And mark your calendars
for the 18th ABAQUS Users Conference, May 18-20, 2005, when we hope to see you in Stockholm!
Cordially,
Jeff Rankin
insights@abaqus.com
Americas
Asia Pacific
Sept. 28
Cleveland, OH
Sept. 20-21
Koningswinter,
Germany
Oct. 20
Beijing, China
Sept. 29-30
West Lafayette, IN
Sept. 23
Oct. 25-26
Tokyo, Japan
Sept. 30
Toronto, Canada
Sept. 23-24
Stockholm, Sweden
Nov. 2
Taipei, Taiwan
Oct. 7
Detroit, MI
Sept. 27-28
Linz, Austria
Nov. 10
Seoul, Korea
Oct. 19
Atlanta, GA
Oct. 7-8
Istanbul, Turkey
Oct. 20
Houston, TX
Nov. 5
Madrid, Spain
Oct. 26-27
Seattle, WA
Nov. 16-17
Warrington, UK
Nov. 8
Boston, MA
Nov. 17-18
Turnhout, Belgium
Nov. 10
Philadelphia, PA
Nov. 19
Poznan, Poland
Nov. 16
Baltimore, MD
Nov. 23
Paris, France
Nov. 11-12
San Carlos de
Bariloche, Argentina
Nov. 24-26
Poltecnico di Bari,
Italy
A view from the Odyssey as it left the Boston Harbor docking area.
Briefly Noted
ABAQUS has seen a steady increase in customer demand for Itanium systems, which was a key factor in the decision to upgrade support for Itanium
with the initial release of ABAQUS Version 6.5-1 instead of in a subsequent maintenance release as was done with Version 6.4. (See ABAQUS Version
6.5 Directions article later in this issue.) The in-house Itanium systems that ABAQUS utilizes have been a key enabler in our crashworthiness initiative,
and will provide a basis to further advance our parallel computing efforts and broaden support of the analysis products for DMP configurations. Also
noteworthy is the ABAQUS announcement of native support for x86-64 bit systems (new with Version 6.5) which include systems powered by AMD
Opteron and Intel EM64T chips.
Our services initiative continues to gain strength, as a number of customers have selected ABAQUS for specialized consulting and support services.
Securing an ABAQUS on-site support engineer has been a popular option recently, along with the more traditional engineering consulting as well as
process automation and methods development projects. To learn more about our services offerings, visit www.abaqus.com/Services.
ABAQUS will be involved in a number of upcoming industry events, including the 23rd Annual Conference on Tire Science and Technology, the SAE
Brake Colloquium, and the 75th Shock and Vibration Symposium. For additional information on these events, visit www.abaqus.com/Events.
Wheel-o
on-T
Track Supports for Radio Telescopes
Accurate Analyses at SGH Provide New
Insights into Wear and Design Aspects
Steerable radio telescopes range in reflector size up to 300 feet in
diameter. Many of these structures are supported by wheel-ontrack systems composed of wheel bogies and wear plates mounted
on base plates, with the largest examples having wheel loads of a
million pounds per wheel. In some installations, migration of the
wear plates has been observed between the wear and base plates
accompanied by significant wear and fracture of fasteners
restraining the plates, creating operational as well as
maintenance issues.
Example of a wheel-on-track
system and detail of the
wear plate and base plate
configuration.
Rolling
direction
View angle in
contour plot
Wear plate
Bolt
Steel,
infinite
elements
Wear plate
Base plate
Base plate
Grout/concrete
Planes of
symmetry
Concrete
infinite elements
Track Support Structure
Deformation (exaggerated) of the wear plate due to contact from the wheel.
Contact pressure and relative sliding for bolted vs. unbolted configurations,
two-dimensional pilot study.
To Learn More
You may download the complete contributed paper
that was given by SGH at the 2004 AUC by visiting
www.abaqus.com/Insights0408.
Brian Rose (Senior Engineer) and Frank W. Kan (Staff Consultant) have been working
in the Engineering Mechanics & Infrastructure Division at Simpson Gumpertz &
Heger Inc. for 3 and 17 years, respectively. Brian holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering
from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Frank holds a M.S. in Civil Engineering
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Left: a mixed mesh of tetrahedral (green) and hexahedral (yellow) elements, tied
together with a bonded interface. Top right: the hexahedral mesh, which is used to
model a crack tip. Bottom right: a comparison of the stresses at the bonded
interface obtained with Version 6.4 and Version 6.5.
In this image the Fluent CFD model is used to analyze thermal effects and air flow
effects in the disc brake region, while an ABAQUS FEA model is used for the
coupled temperature-displacement analysis and related acoustic model prediction.
Performance
Our long-term strategic focus on software performance continues
with ABAQUS Version 6.5, taking into account not only faster
analysis solution speed but also solution robustness and overall
faster turnaround time.
In ABAQUS/Explicit users will benefit from significant
performance improvements in several areas. The performance of the
general contact algorithm has been improved considerably resulting
in significant performance gains for both serial and parallel
execution. Improved handling of constraints and rigid bodies also
provide significant performance gains during parallel execution.
Other major enhancements include improved memory management
and the availability of parallel execution on a variety of distributed
memory systems using an MPI-based implementation (Message
Passing Interface).
An example of a large
pattern of instances for a
semiconductor ball grid
array. A part (unit cell)
consisting of the
repeating geometry is
meshed using the new
part meshing capability.
This unit cell is then
patterned, along with
its mesh.
(continued)
Platform Support
In a letter to ABAQUS customers at the end of March of this
year, we outlined our plan for platform support for ABAQUS
Version 6.5. Based on the feedback to that letter and also due to
subsequent changes in the hardware market, a slightly modified
plan was presented at the ABAQUS Users Conference. Further
refinements have been made to that plan, as reflected in the table
below that summarizes platform support for ABAQUS Version 6.5.
ABAQUS
Release
Platforms
Processor
Operating System(s)
6.5-3
Yes*
Yes*
x86-32
Windows XP Professional
Windows 2000 Service Pack 3
Yes*
Yes*
Itanium
HP-UX B.11.22
HP-UX B.11.23
No
Yes
Itanium
No
Yes
Power
No
Yes
x86-64
Yes&
Yes
PA-RISC
HP-UX 11.00
HP-UX B.11.11
No
Yes
Alpha
No
Yes
MIPS
No
Yes
UltraSPARC
No
Yes
PrimePower
*
&
Analysis
Products
x86-32
6.5-1
6.5-2
Interactive
Products
Linux
x86-64
Windows
x86-32
Other
Closure
We hope this article has provided a useful glimpse into the new
functionality, performance, and user productivity offered by
ABAQUS Version 6.5. We are delighted with the progress made
in this release on many fronts but realize there is still much work
to do. ABAQUS Version 6.6 development is well underway, and
we encourage users to continue their proactive communication
with ABAQUS, via the WebRFE tool and in discussions with
local ABAQUS offices or representatives, as they tackle new
challenges with ABAQUS.
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100%
HP-UX
Alpha
HP-UX
Itanium
HP-UX
PA-RISC
Within 2 years what do you
expect will be your primary
platform for solving?
IBM
Power
Linux
Itanium
Linux
x86-32
Linux
x86-64
SGI
MIPS
Sun
UltraSPARC
Windows
x86-32
0%
Using the job management capability, you can create job specifications,
submit analysis jobs to ABAQUS, and continuously monitor solution
progress.
can create a job from an input file, which enables you to make
modifications to an input file and still run the job from the
CATIA V5 environment. Additional job options include
specifying the location of computation files and establishing
memory settings during analysis. After creating analysis jobs,
you can submit them and continuously monitor the solution
progress, including any diagnostic messages from ABAQUS.
For added convenience, you can use the Storage Manager to
view ABAQUS analysis files in the text editor of your choice.
CATIA V5 Integration
Leveraging advanced CATIA V5 capabilities is an important
advantage of ABAQUS for CATIA V5. Version 1.2
demonstrates our ongoing efforts to make full use of CATIA V5
features. Examples include enabling CATIA V5 groups for
effective grouping of geometric entities during model
preprocessing and activating Visual Basic scripting to
automate some aspects of model creation.
For more information visit www.abaqus.com/products/AFC
to download the Version 1.2 datasheet, or contact your local
ABAQUS office.
We hope you are able to join us. For more information and to register, please visit our website at www.abaqus.com/Events.
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Technical Corner
ABAQUS Technology Briefs
In June, we re-launched the Technology Briefs portion of our
web site (www.abaqus.com/TechBriefs) that now offers a
number of in-depth sample applications to demonstrate how
ABAQUS is used in some of our major market segments. Each
application is summarized in the form of a detailed technical
paper (Technology Brief), which can be downloaded in Adobe
Acrobat (PDF) format. In addition, ABAQUS customers with
current technical support agreements can log on to the
ABAQUS Online Support System (AOSS) to download a .zip
archive that contains the ABAQUS model and/or input file.
The following is a list of the current Technology Brief titles.
There are additional Technology Briefs in the works. If youd
like to collaborate with ABAQUS on a particular topic or if you
have any feedback about the ABAQUS Technology Briefs,
please write to us at TechBriefs@abaqus.com.
Radiation
Thin-
Stents
For SGI and IBM platforms, the proprietary software packages MIO
and FFIO can be used to improve the performance of systems with
limited memory resources. Answer 1195 explains how to configure the
ABAQUS environment file to utilize these packages.
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ABAQUS Tips
On a monthly basis, your local ABAQUS branch office sends an email message containing timely information about using the ABAQUS
software suite. In each issue of ABAQUS Tips, information designed to increase your knowledge, efficiency and productivity as an
ABAQUS user will be presented. Among the topics to be included are the finer points of using ABAQUS/Standard and ABAQUS/Explicit,
modeling techniques in ABAQUS/CAE, scripting, and highlights of unique capabilities.
Each ABAQUS Tip will be sent by your local branch office and will include information unique to your local ABAQUS community,
including:
Upcoming Training Classes and Seminars
Regional Users Meetings
Consulting Services
Other Special Events
Each issue of ABAQUS Tips is archived in the ABAQUS Online Support System (AOSS) Answer Database. To facilitate retrieval, the
tips will be associated with the ABAQUS Topic ABAQUS Tips. In the ABAQUS Answers section of the AOSS, select this topic
from the ABAQUS Topics pulldown list.
In keeping with the nature of a tip, the information will be presented in a brief, concise manner with links to additional web pages and
ABAQUS Answers. To view an example ABAQUS Tip, please see ABAQUS Tips for January 2004. To sign up for the ABAQUS Tips
service, please contact your local ABAQUS office or see ABAQUS Answer 1132.
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Desktop
Engineering
Supplement
Elements of
Analysis
June 2004,
pp. 12-17
A Convergence
of Disciplines
Greg Brown,
Manager of
Interactive
Products at ABAQUS,
was featured along with other
leading players in the June
edition of Desktop Engineering
supplement. Brown was asked for his
input on topics pertaining to customers, standards for industry,
and unified approaches. The challenge for companies is to find
better ways of implementing FE tools to improve their bottom
line. Brown stated, Once the strategic value of analysis is
recognized in a companys business and process, analysis
quality is usually better and it becomes more widely deployed.
SAE Automotive Engineering International
April 2004, pp. 56-57
Honda Gears up CVT Design
The continuously variable transmission (CVT) offers a way for
automobile manufacturers to address increasing demands for
environmental compliance without sacrificing vehicle
performance. This article, written by Toshihiro Saito, Assistant
Chief Engineer at Honda R&D Co. Ltd., describes how Honda
used ABAQUS to understand how to modify the V-belt for its
CVT transmission and develop a design tool for future use.
Recent Announcements
ABAQUS Selected by Boeing to Commercialize Composite
Structure Design Technology
In April, ABAQUS, Inc., announced that it had been selected by the Boeing Intellectual Property Business
to develop and market Boeing technology for prediction of fracture and failure in laminated composite
materials. The technology, an implementation of a novel and refined technique that utilizes the Virtual
Crack Closure Technique (VCCT), has been used by Boeing and plays an important role in the design of
aero structures involving composites. Development of this implementation of the VCCT was sponsored by
the Composite Affordability Initiative, of which Boeing is a member. Boeing has filed a patent application
for this implementation of the VCCT and ABAQUS, Inc., will market the technology. To download the full
article, please visit our web site at www.abaqus.com/News and click on In The News.
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