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Abaqus Teaching Edition includes SolidWorks & CATIAv5 Associative Interfaces
By popular demand, we have added the SolidWorks and CATIA V5 Associative Interfaces in the Abaqus Teaching Editions for FREE!  The Interface products provide the capability of importing solid assemblies into Abaqus/CAE.
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Check out the SolidWorks Associative Interface Demo
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Abaqus 6.9 Offers New Capabilities for Fracture and Failure, High-Performance Computing, and Noise and Vibration

Release Highlights:

• The Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) has been implemented in Abaqus and provides a powerful tool for simulating crack growth along arbitrary paths that do not correspond to element boundaries. In the aerospace industry, XFEM can be used in combination with other Abaqus capabilities to predict the durability and damage tolerance of composite aircraft structures. In the energy industry, it can assist in evaluating the onset and growth of cracks in pressure vessels.
• The general contact implementation offers a simplified and highly automated method for defining contact interactions in a model. This capability provides substantial efficiency improvements in modeling complex assemblies such as gear systems, hydraulic cylinders, or other products that have parts that come into contact.
• A new cosimulation method allows users to combine the Abaqus implicit and explicit solvers into a single simulation—substantially reducing computation time. For example, automotive engineers can now combine a substructure representation of a vehicle body with a model of the tires and suspension systems to evaluate the durability of a vehicle running over a pothole.
• Abaqus/CAE provides faster, more robust meshing and powerful results visualization techniques.
• Enhanced performance of the AMS eigensolver significantly improves the efficiency of large-scale linear dynamics workflows used for applications such as automotive noise and vibration analyses.
• A new viscous shear model allows the simulation of non-Newtonian fluids such as blood, paste, molten polymers, and other fluids often used in consumer product and industrial applications.

Abaqus 6.9 Overview
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Abaqus 6.9 Web-based Training
SIMULIA Answer 4177 contains the Abaqus 6.9 Web-based Training demos.
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New add-on products for the Abaqus Research Edition!

• CZone for Abaqus
  Advanced crush simulation for energy-absorbing structures made from laminated composites.
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• Composites Modeler for Abaqus/CAE
  Composites Modeler for Abaqus/CAE, developed by Simulayt Ltd., complements and extends the powerful ply modeling features in Abaqus/CAE by providing proven fiber simulation capabilities and advanced model building—all seamlessly integrated within Abaqus/CAE.
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