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Hi All!

I've missed chatting with you these past two months, but I hope everyone had a terrific winter break!

I think you all will be happy to hear a few amazing accomplishments that occurred in 2013 here in the SIMULIA Learning Community. We are so pleased to announce that the SLC contains well over 12,000 members and is growing daily - THANK YOU!!! These members include SIMULIA users, advocates, academics, commercial customers, researchers and more!

Additionally, we received our first few CUSTOMER blog posts created and published  to the community and we could not be more excited about it. As always, I want to emphasize that this community is for YOU. We strive to always provide you with the most exciting and useful content on a regular basis - so please continue to check back often!

Speaking of which! Here is an overview of what has been going down in the SLC for December and January...

TUTORIALS

Neo-Hookean Calibration of an Elastomer Yeoh Model Calibration of an Elastomer Mesh preparation for T or L angle composite structure using continuum shell elements Choosing between Factor Of Safety (FOS) and Fatigue Reserve Factor (FRF) in calculating design life of a component in fe-safe Understanding Prony series viscoelasticity Abaqus Scripting – The Top Commands Material Modeling and Calibration - An Overview and Curriculum Understanding Damage and the need for the Characteristic Element Length

COMMENTARY

Multiphysics Simulation on a Hypersonic Vehicle from ATA Engineering presents exciting possibilities.. Partner Spotlight: BETA CAE  Rencontrons-nous sur PCD / ADF 2014 Don't miss this live eSeminar on the topic "Using XFEM in Abaqus to Model Fracture and Crack Propagation" Medtronic Endovascular (Santa Rosa, CA) is looking for a Sr. Engineer with Abaqus experience Isight Corner: How to Integrate Abaqus Welding Interface (AWI) with Isight?

TECH TIPS

"Mesh on support not found" error in Abaqus For CATIA V5 sorted() function in Abaqus 6.13 python Script to summarize warnings and errors from Abaqus text output files Stitching and imprinting in CAE for geometry import.  Formula to ignore internal cracks in Rules Based Mesher in CATIA V5-6.  AFXPickStep in Abaqus/CAE plug-in CATIA V5 Associative Interface with Abaqus/CAE How to detect external elements/edges of any 2D orphan mesh (Python)