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We just can't bottle up this exciting story...

I'm excited to share a recently published article posted on
Design World entitled, Keeping
carbonation bottled up with FEA. In it, author Chris Hardee had the
opportunity to interview Xavier Brajer of Verallia at Saint-Gobain’s Research
Center. Xavier explained how he and his 15-person Mechanics of Materials Group
in the company’s R&D department use Abaqus and Isight to save time and
money when designing glass bottles.

5 Minutes, 100 Mb, but only THREE will win...

If you
have ever created a useful tutorial or if you have ever had a great idea for a
tutorial, but you’ve never had the time to create it - then now is your chance to share your
ideas with other SIMULIA users! Beginning in May and ending in June
we will be accepting submissions of tech-tip tutorials. The winners will be
announced in August and will receive a 3Dconnexion Space Navigation Mouse.

What do
Guitar Strings Have to do With Dynamic Response?

Tightening
guitar strings to change the sound uses the same principle as tightening head
bolts to change the dynamic response of an engine block assembly. This is
stress stiffening and it affects the dynamic response of a structure. One of
the fundamental components in assessing nonlinear static stress is stress
stiffening, but it is also the most overlooked when evaluating the steady-state
dynamic response of engine assemblies.

When designing a permanent magnet machine, one of the most fundamental and difficult goals is to reduce the cogging torque curve. The challenge in reducing the cogging torque is to also decrease the numerical noise generated by the mesh. Finite element analyses and the advanced meshing functionality that is available through Abaqus/CAE allows for a faster and more accurate prototype.

If you haven’t attended a SIMULIA Community Conference before then check out this e-book of select past conference papers to see what you’ve been missing.http://bit.ly/WbCqR5

Login to the SIMULIA Learning Community today to receive a special $100 discount. Hurry! Special ends March 15. https://swym.3ds.com/#community:73 

2013 SIMULIA Community Conference, May 21-24, 2013, Vienna, Austria   

Ice or hail impact is an important design consideration in the aviation, energy, and astronautics industries.  Physical testing of impact scenarios can be expensive and impractical.  Numerical simulations provide cost effective and convenient tools for including hail impact scenarios in the design process.

Numerically simulating high speed ice or hail impact is challenging because of the extreme deformation, fragmentation, contact, and material model complexity.

Take advantage of your end-of-year budget now and plan to join us May 21-24, 2013, in Vienna, Austria!

More than 100 abstracts have been submitted!

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