Abaqus Interface 2022 Release Notes
Altair HyperMesh
New Features
- New entity for surface-based couplings
- Element-based surface couplings from group and Node-based surface couplings from panel are migrated to new Constraint entity.
- Component migration
- Removed solver dependency on components. This includes element set removed from *ELEMENT and created as new *ELSET entity. Indirect assignment of property is not supported by including HW generated element set for property.
Enhancements
- New keywords
- *COUPLED THERMAL-ELECTRICAL
*MASS ADJUST
*PLASTIC M1
*PLASTIC M2
*PLASTIC TORQUE
*PLASTIC AXIAL
*FRAME SECTION
- New Elements
- FRAME2D
FRAME3D
SHEAR4
- Updated Keywords
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- DLOAD card updated with support of TRSHR (Traction shear).
- Compression factor added to *ELASTIC.
- Actuator definition added to *AMPLITUDE.
- Temperature field added to *UNIAXIAL.
- *SURFACE now carries SPOS/SNEG for shell element faces.
Resolved Issues
- Names exceeding 32 characters are allowed for parameter entity.
- Color column added for Contact Browser.
- Order of writing node set by element set issue is resolved.
- An issue with property lost on *EULERIAN SECTION is resolved.
- An issue with set names changing on multi-import is fixed.
- Name pool caused database corruption with duplicate names for some cards on sets. This issue is fixed.