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News March, 2010
FEA Information News Announcement

February 25, 2010 — Engineering Technology Associates, Inc. (ETA) has undergone a complete restructuring of its software line-up and will be releasing the result of that effort this year with its release of an enterprise level CAE software solution, Inventium Suite. Inventium’s first set of tools will be available this February, in the form of an advanced Pre & Post processor, called PreSys.

http://www.eta.com

LS-DYNA Conference Registration Page is now available

http://www.ls-dynaconferences.com

LSTC classes are now posted for 2010 http://www.lstc.com

December 07th: A WINNING COMBINATION
Lenovo - LSTC - LS-DYNA - ThinkStation D20
For the latest benchmarks go to TopCrunch

The roadmap for the future is the wide use of Anthropomorphic test devices, at affordable cost. Meeting this future is Livermore Software Technology Corporation

Four years ago LSTC decided to begin the process of developing finite element models of dummies and barriers. As part of this development, LSTC had the idea of employing state-of-the-art capabilities which are unique to LS-DYNA including meshless solid and shell elements to improve robustness, smooth contact to model joints, and advanced constitutive models to model the complex behavior of hyperelastic materials including aging.

This work is now well underway, and its current limited success can be attributed not only to the work of the National Crash Analysis Center (NCAC), DYNAmore GmbH, and the dedicated LSTC engineers, but to several automotive suppliers and OEMs who have been critical in supplying surface data, test and validation data and feedback related to the performance of their models.

LSTC is still in the early stages of their dummy developments, and much effort is required before their ultimate goals are achieved.

They have committed to funding NCAC for the third year to accelerate these developments. More recently, DYNAmore GmbH in Germany joined LSTC and committed their efforts to the development and validation of the EuroSID dummies.

Currently, their new detailed dummy models have between 200,000 to 300,000 elements, but can be easily refined in the future as accuracy requirements increase. The dummies generated at LSTC use the advanced parametric meshing features available in TrueGrid developed by XYZ Scientific Applications, Inc. in Livermore, California.

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LSTC is gearing up for their 2010 conference - please visit their conference site http://www.ls-dynaconferences.com

Thailand news is a new site http://www.feathailand.com

SGI Octane III Make Supercomputing Personal:

http://www.sgi.com/products/workstations/octaneIII/index.html

Dummy Models:

FEA Information

http://www.ls-dynadummymodels.com

LSTC's Models

http://www.lstc.com/models/

Arup Cellbond Barrier Models

http://www.oasys-software.com/dyna/en/fe-models/barrier.shtml

Arup Pedestrian Impactor Models