simulations including FEA to meet constraints and derive op- timum designs. “The real claim to fame is our ability to glue together disparate tools in a workflow,” noted Mark Bohm, senior sales director, Simulia. The Isight 5.7 software is an application for simulation process automation and design optimization, and Abaqus 6.12 is the latest version of the company’s FEA for multiphysics, modeling and meshing.
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Simulation in Simulia’s Abaqus FEA software of an auto- motive crash dummy, where new tools cut crash model creation from weeks to days.
Simulia’s software is applied in aerospace/defense,
automotive, and construction. “There are instances where we’ve provided simulation technology on the shop floor for people who are not familiar with FEA,” Bohm noted. “One was for a steel producer to develop a virtual roll-pass design system, for heavy sections of steel mostly used for civil engineering.”
Modeling the Human Body
Multiphysics combining FEA with computational fluid dy- namics (CFD) have made great strides in biomedical applica- tions, said Thierry Marchal, industry director, healthcare, con- struction and consumer products, Ansys Inc. (Canonsburg, PA). Simulation offerings from Ansys include its Structural and
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