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New FEA product simulates progressive failure: meshing, Model Trees, and visualization also bolstered.(FEA)(Brief Article)
Design News, March, 2005
ABAQUS Inc. has released Version 6.5 of its product suite by the same name. Among the enhancements: New capabilities in fracture and failure analysis so engineers can model damage and failure of materials, fasteners, and other connections, and predict where a crack will grow. The fracture and failure capabilities are part of a long-term development at ABAQUS.
The capabilities are in the ABAQUS/Explicit and ABAQUS/Standard products. Included in the capabilities are cohesive elements for modeling separation between two initially bonded surfaces. "Customers such as Boeing, Exxon Mobil, Alstrom, and NASA were the driving force behind the development of our fracture and failure capabilities," says Greg Brown, ABAQUS manager of interactive products. Now,...
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