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Metal welding processes are employed in various indus-tries. Gas welding techniques use the heat from a flame to melt the parts to be joined and a filler material simulta-neously. Extreme thermal loading is applied to the parts being joined, and complex material responses are initi-ated. The steep, localized thermal gradients result in stress concentrations in the welding zone. Consequently, modeling and simulation of welding processes are often complex and challenging.

Filament winding has become a popular construction technique in a wide variety of industries for creating com-posite structures with high stiffness-to-weight ratios. The difficulty in accurately analyzing the structural behavior of a filament wound body derives from the continually vary-ing orientation of the filaments. The standard capabilities of commercial finite element codes are inadequate to model the spatial variation of fiber orientation in a practical way.

Abaqus/CAE includes modeling and postprocessing capabilities for fracture mechanics analyses. These features provide interactive access to the contour integral fracture mechanics technology in Abaqus/Standard. Several fracture-specific tools are available, such as those for creating seam cracks, defining singularities, selecting the crack front and crack tip, defining q-vectors or normals to the crack front, and creating focused meshes. With these tools models can be created to estimate J-integrals, stress intensity factors, and crack propagation directions.

As the maximum speed of bullet trains continues to increase, overheating and thermal deformation/stress on brake systems are going to be critical for emergency stops. Precise prediction of the maximum temperature is needed for the design of brake systems, especially for both discs and linings, where how to handle the high speed spinning of discs is the point of the heat/structure coupled analyses. Abaqus provides couple of potential methods but each one had critical shortcomings.

Electrically operated high temperature furnaces and reactors are used in many industrial

manufacturing processes such as sintering or single crystal growth in order to allow for the

required process conditions. In view of their outstanding characteristics refractory metals are

Since the 1946 issuance of the ASTM bearing steel specification, A295, the research and

development of bearing steels has resulted in substantially improved fatigue and wear

Today manufacturing companies are more and more often characterized by a growing product

and processes complexity. Projects needs the participation of a pool of companies that have to

collaborate in a multidisciplinary and integrated way following a defined PLM strategy.

These challenges are meant to introduce a new way of working, based on innovation and

global collaboration, both internally among different disciplines and externally between

operations, administration, and maintenance and its suppliers. The development engineering

Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRP) are being used for highly loaded lightweight structural components for many years. Up to now mostly insufficient two-dimensional classical failure criterions, which are embedded into FE-software like Tsai-Wu, Hill, etc. have been used for the dimensioning of composites. To achieve better predictions of the three-dimensional complex composite failure behavior newer, so-called action-plane based failure criterions have been developed, e.g.: PUCK, JELTSCH-FRICKER or LaRC04.