Hello SwYmmers,

Usually around this time of year the office becomes a bit more quiet as people go on holiday to enjoy the summer season, but the SLC is one place that never goes quiet! Over the course of the month we've seen some incredible technical posts, announcements and even heard from our partners.

Headlines

If you missed the big headlines of July, then you should know that the latest releases of Abaqus, Isight and SIMULIA Execution Engine (SEE) are now available! Please take a moment to read the post and learn about the new features and technology associated with these releases. Additionally, the papers and presentations from the 2013 SIMULIA Community Conference are now available!

Technical Posts: Isight

For those who are intrigued by Isight and wish to learn more, there were two excellent and very technical posts this month on that particular topic. Jiang Yao from our technical marketing team explained how to use Isight to calibrate nonlinear viscoealstic material. With a detailed explanation, images and video Jiang explains that parallel rheological framework in Abaqus 6.13 can be used to model non-linear viscoelasticity. Shripad Kamlakar also wrote about Isight and illustrated how beneficial it is for design of experiment, RSM and optimization. Check out his blog and presentation to learn more!

Technical Posts: Varied

In an earth shattering post we learn about earth penetration simulation using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) analysis from Mahesh Chitnis. A new tech brief that's sweeter than honey regarding Abaqus/Explicit Simulation of the Low Velocity Impact of an Aluminum Honeycomb Sandwich Panel was shared. This tech brief outlines the simplification in modeling honeycomb structures provided by the Abaqus/CAE plug-in available in the Knowledge Base. Another great plug-in discussed in July was the Bolt Studio plug-in, which provides the user with a streamlined method for defining bolts, nuts, and washers, and placing them into an existing Abaqus/CAE model. Users can control the default set of bolts that are displayed in the interface via a simple Python-based configuration file.

Miscellaneous

This month we saw the very first "Partner Spotlight" illuminating Safe Technology and how their software allows fast, easy and accurate fatigue life predictions for FE models. You can expect to see more Partner Spotlights in the future. We had a webinar recap that helped us understand the distinguishing characteristics of the wide range of continuum and structural elements available in Abaqus for stress analyses.

As you can see, there is a little something for everyone every month in the SIMULIA Learning Community! Thanks for reading!

-Ashley