PLM ViM

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I-deas / ADINA CAD/CAE Tools for serious
nonlinear Mechanics Adam Hodgson
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AH Engineering

• Network - Design Simulation Engineers
• I-deas
• Moldflow
• ADINA

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Why do AH Engineering use ADINA ?
I-deas CAD
I-deas linear FEM
I-deas non-linear FEM
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I-deas / ADINA serious nonlinear FEM Strain e
gtgt 10
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Nonlinearities
1. Material laws
2. Contact - with friction
3. Geometric
Real Life Engineering S 1, 2, 3
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Material law bilinear - copper
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Material law Mooney-Rivlen - elastomer
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Material law multilinear - thermoplastics
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• ADINA completely integrated in I-deas
• Preprocessing in I-deas (additional input forms)
• Number crunching in ADINA
• Postprocessing in I-deas

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further ADINA features
Robust Elements - remeshing as yet not needed
Multi stream calculting use dual ( more)
processors DELL 530 2 processors, 2 GHz, 2 GB Ram
Support works while we sleep
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Our experience with ADINA
Easy for I-deas users to get started
State of the art computing
Support excellent
- tedious for features not implemented in
I-deas or ADINA interface
- user base smaller than Abaqus, Marc - issues
customer acceptance, peer
exchange
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About the Autor Adam
Hodgson 1975 - 1978 FEM Development
Applications, Krupp, Kaiser 1978 - 1986 CADCAM
Managment, INA 1986 - 1995 CAD, FEM Support
Applications, rotring 1995 - AH
Engineering 1997 - I-deas User Group
e.V., President 1998 - www.IdeasViM.de
Community of German-speaking I-deas Users (2000
members) 2002 - www.cad4students.de,
www.cad4unis.de online shops for SolidEdge,
Unigraphics, I-deas in academia