The following press release was published on the TWI website on September 6, 2018.

​​​​​​​A team comprising TWI Ltd and the SIMULIA brand of Dassault Systèmes has been awarded joint 1st Place: Best modelling results predicting the residual stresses within an as-built IN625 bridge structure – residual elastic strains (metals) in the 2018 Additive Manufacturing Benchmark (AM-Bench) Challenge organised by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The team members were: Madie Allen, National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC) student at Brunel University London; Tyler London, Team Manager, Numerical Modelling and Optimisation, TWI Ltd, Yangzhan Yang, Americas R&D Customer Support Manager SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes; and Victor Oancea, R&D Technology Director SIMULIA. Madie is currently undertaking a PhD with TWI on the numerical modelling of additive manufacturing, funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, and used the latest features of the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform and new finite element (FE) technology implemented in the SIMULIA Abaqus application in the submission.

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