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(December 2010) posted on Wed Dec 15, 2010

Dassault Systèmes (DS), today announced the availability of Abaqus 6.10 Extended Functionality (6.10-EF), the leading unified Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and multiphysics product suite from SIMULIA, the Dassault Systémes brand for realistic simulation.
As part of SIMULIA’s commitment to provide innovative realistic simulation solutions, Abaqus 6.10-EF delivers a number of powerful, customer-requested enhancements for modeling, visualization, contact, mechanics, and performance. These improvements enable customers to reduce development time and costs, while increasing the efficiency of the product development process through highly accurate simulations of real-world product and material behavior.
Among the modeling and visualization enhancements in 6.10-EF is dramatically improved support for substructure modeling capabilities. Abaqus users can now more easily create a substructure of a distinct region in their product, import it into an assembly, recover the results during an analysis, and reuse the substructures in future models, saving significant modeling time.
“The rearview mirror systems we supply to the medium- and heavy-duty truck manufacturers contain a number common internal sub-assemblies, such as actuators, that are used in many different mirror systems,” says Dr. Rolf de Swardt, chief engineer and FEA specialist at Lang Mekra North America. “The new substructure support capability in Abaqus 6.10-EF allows us to develop very detailed FE models of these components, and then ‘plug’ them into new system models, not only saving us time in constructing the models, but also shortening runtime of the large Eigen value analyses we typically perform to ensure the mirrors do not vibrate excessively.” For more, visit www.simulia.com/products/unified_fea.