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What Is ADINA Ultimate?: ADINA Ultimate includes everything in ADINA Advanced, plus ADINA CFD, ADINA FSI, ADINA EM, ADINA Multiphysics, and the ADINA User Interface. Choose this software suite to solve your most challenging nonlinear problems involving: Geometric, material, and load nonlinearities + Large deformations + Contact conditions + Heat transfer + Thermo-mechanical coupling + Computational fluid dynamics + Fluid structure interaction + Electromagnetics + Multiphysics.

Create Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulations/ADINA CFD: Model incompressible and compressible flows in a wide array of fluid flows including laminar and turbulent regimes, thin-film Reynolds flow, two-phase flow, non-isothermal flow, conjugate heat transfer, and more. Benefit from material models for handling non-Newtonian fluids and real gasses. Solve general flow conditions in arbitrary geometries.

Multiphysics Solution for Complex Fluid-structure Interaction (FSI) Analyses/ADINA FSI: Use direct FSI coupling or iterative FSI coupling methods to solve the coupling effects of fluids and structures. Satisfy the conditions of displacement compatibility and traction equilibrium. FSI analysis can be performed with incompressible, slightly compressible, low-speed compressible, and high-speed compressible flow. It is ideal for large deformations of soft structures, or highly compressible flows abutting stiff structures. All available element types can be used, including shell, 2D and 3D solid, beam, iso-beam, and contact surfaces, as well as all available material models.

Solution Capabilities for Electromagnetic Analysis/ADINA Electromagnetics: Electromagnetic effects can be coupled to mechanical or fluid flow systems. Solve for general Maxwell’s equations with different loading and boundary conditions, electrostatic and magnetostatic fields, AC/DC conduction, time-harmonic, eddy current, EM fields with Lorentz forces, EM fields coupled with temperature, and wave guide.

Unique Breadth and Depth Multiphysics Capabilities/ADINA Multiphysics: Gain deeper insight into the performance of your designs to better understand the causes and consequences of natural phenomena. The software offers a full array of multiphysics capabilities, including FSI, thermo-mechanical coupling (TMC), structural-pore pressure coupling (porous media), thermal-fluid-structural coupling, electric field-structural coupling (piezoelectric), thermal-electrical coupling (Joule heating), acoustic fluid-structural coupling, fluid flow-mass transfer coupling, and fluid flow-electromagnetic coupling.

Non-linear geogrids: Elastoplastic (N-ε) & Viscoelastic (time-dependent): PLAXIS 2D 2017 introduce two new types of behavior for geogrids. Users can now include elastoplastic, or viscoelastic behavior. For the elastoplastic behavior user can define N-epsilon diagrams. With the viscoelastic behavior, creep can be taken into account for geogrids. Multiply command for numeric properties (VIP): The multiply command can be used to for instance multiply a set of loads with various load components by a factor higher or lower than 1. This command can be issued in the various modes on numerous objects, and especially for staged construction offers a convenient way to explore alternate load conditions, thermal conditions, initial conditions etc. Command line improvements: 2D brings some improvements for the command line window. Users can now right click in the command line window and choose the Pop-out option to detach the command line window from the program. In addition some extra options to copy all successful commands or responses are available.  Other features: Grout anchor behavior for Embedded beam rows - Directly input the element dimension in the expert settings of the mesh menu - Time shown in Output plot title for calculations where a time component is defined - Soil layering based on Robertson interpretation for imported CPT borehole data (VIP) - Hoek-brown model available in Design approaches (VIP) - Multiselect-on-click behavior for selecting overlapping objects of the same type - Grouped clusters based on material assignment in Output Model explorer - Equivalent force arrow can be hidden from cross sections - Inverse analysis settings in SoilTest can be now be saved.

The PLAXIS development team is pleased to announce the availability of PLAXIS MoDeTo CONNECT Edition V20 Update 4 is a software package intended for the design of monopiles asfoundation elements for offshore wind turbines under lateral loading conditions. New and improved features; * improved regeneration for the design verification model, for cases where only the workload values are changed * input tables in soil and calibration modes now accommodate copying and pasting of values * improved visualization of the step changes at layer transactions on shaft depth variation function charts * added functionality to import multiple soil reaction curves files in analysis mode * improved algorithm for simplification of the curves that are exported to SACS * added support for exporting pile base curves to SACS. Fixed issues;* fixed issue with loading projects that contained the number symbol (#) in the name * fixed the initial mobilization value for the NGI-ADP model in over-consolidated clay (K0 > 1).

Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Composite and Reinforced Concrete Beams presents advanced methods and techniques for the analysis of composite and FRP reinforced concrete beams. The title introduces detailed numerical modeling methods and the modeling of the structural behavior of composite beams, including critical interfacial bond-slip behavior. It covers a new family of composite beam elements developed by the authors. Other sections cover nonlinear finite element analysis procedures and the numerical modeling techniques used in commercial finite element software that will be of particular interest to engineers and researchers executing numerical simulations.

The Contents: Gives advanced methods and techniques for the analysis of composite and fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) and reinforced concrete beams + Presents new composite beam elements developed by the authors + Introduces numerical techniques for the development of effective finite element models using commercial software + Discusses the critical issues encountered in structural analysis + Maintains a clear focus on advanced numerical modeling.

Large Strain Finite Element Method: A Practical Course, takes an introductory approach to the subject of large strains and large displacements in finite elements and starts from the basic concepts of finite strain deformability, including finite rotations and finite displacements. The necessary elements of vector analysis and tensorial calculus on the lines of modern understanding of the concept of tensor will also be introduced. This book explains how tensors and vectors can be described using matrices and also introduces different stress and strain tensors. Building on these, step by step finite element techniques for both hyper and hypo-elastic approach will be considered.