Structural Dynamics Toolbox

What's new in SDT 6.0

	Previous releases

Key features of the SDT 6.0 release are

• A complete revision of the GUI functions feplot and iiplot. The property figures now support extensive manipulations of the model and datasets. The figure pointers have been extended for much easier script/function based manipulations. See help sections 5.1 and 3.1 for details.
  
  
• A complete rewritting of the superelement modeling features, see section 6.2.
  
  
• A major generalization of the notion of sensors for both analysis and test/analysis correlation, see section 5.4.
  
  
• Major optimization, for large models, of the fe_case connections commands.
  
  
• The introduction of support tools for structures with piezoelectric materials, modeled in volumes or shells, see section 6.5. The q4cs shell now fully supports classical lamination theory and piezoelectric actuation/sensing.

OpenFEM (the FEM engine included in SDT) has undergone many detail improvements and the following revisions

• Support for material orientation maps for surfaces and volumes that are useful in composite and biomechanics applications.
  
  
• An OpenMP parallel version of matrix assembly, that can be used for non-linear solutions is available trough separate dowloads (with minor interactions with a MATLAB bug at exit).
  
  
• Time integration capabilities have undergone significant optimization fe_time.
  
  
• support for definition of selections through sets, which is compatible with most CAE environments, has been fundamentally revised.
  
  
• the GMSH interface has undergone significant extension.

Key features of FEMLink 3.3 are

• nasread naswrite have been the object of many detail improvements in particular for large model read/write.
• abaqus is the new interface to read and write ABAQUS models.
• ans2sdt ANSYS 9-11 support and large file handling was refined. Reading of ASCII format full matrix, reading and writting of .cdb model files were introduced.
• samcef import/export capabilities to SAMCEF have been greatly enhanced.

For download/demo procedures see www.sdtools.com/faq/Release.html.
The release can be downloaded from ftp.sdtools.com/sdt60_dis.p.

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