ADINA System 9.4.2

ADINA R&D Inc., is pleased to announce the availability of ADINA System 9.4.2. This software offers a wide range of capabilities based on reliable and efficient finite element procedures.

ADINA System 9.4 Release Notes (for version 9.4.2) - July 2018:

Sparse solvers

The sparse solvers have been substantially improved in version 9.4. The solution time required is often reduced by a factor of 4 or more for large models, and the memory required is also reduced. Because the 3D-iterative solver and subspace iteration solver use the sparse solver, the solution time required by these solvers is also reduced.
The sparse solvers also make better use of the underlying CPU architecture, so the improvement in the sparse solvers is greater when using later CPU architectures (for example, the Ivy Bridge or later architectures).

ADINA Solids & Structures features

- Enriched subspace iteration method
- New robust frequencies within an interval calculations
- Other improvements to frequency calculations
- Improvements for SMP
- Time function scaling of mass and damping matrices
- Improvements to lumped mass matrices for 3D solid elements
- Improvements to Noh-Bathe method for explicit time integration
- RBE3 elements
- Improvements to connector elements
- Improvements to element birth-death
- Thermo-plastic-cyclic material model
- Improvement to thermo-plasticity with kinematic hardening
- Improvements to Bergstrom-Boyce material model
- Improvements for plasticity, creep and viscoelastic material models
- Improvements to output of results for large strain plasticity models
- Improvements for contact
- Improvements for element group based mass-proportional loading
- Improvements for solution accuracy indicators
- Improvements to energy calculations
- Improvements for OP2 file creation
- Improvements for I-deas universal result file creation
- EnSight files

and more………….

Details of Program Enhancements and Corrections
relnotes_94.pdf


About ADINA System. The ADINA System offers a one-system program for comprehensive finite element analysis of structures, fluids, heat transfer, electromagnetics and multiphysics, all used by one graphical user interface.

Important features of the ADINA System include:

- Parallel processing for solving large problems
- Solids and structures
- Linear to highly nonlinear analyses
- Transient analysis, implicit and explicit
- Large deformations and large strains
- Elasto-plastic, creep analysis including thermal effects
- Contact problems in statics and dynamics
- Glueing in statics and dynamics
- Buckling and post-buckling analysis
- Frequency in linear and nonlinear solutions
- Mode superposition analysis
- Substructuring
- Fracture mechanics
- Sparse solver and effective iterative solver
- Compressible and incompressible viscous fluid flows with heat transfer
- Natural and forced convection conjugate heat transfer
- Laminar and turbulent flows
- Radiation heat transfer by ray tracing method
- Free surface flows
- Flows with moving boundaries
- Electromagnetic analysis
- Fully coupled multiphysics analysis involving structural, fluid, thermal and electromagnetic effects

About ADINA R & D, Inc. The development of ADINA was started, and the foundation established, by Dr. K.J. Bathe in 1974. Soon thereafter, in 1975, Dr. K.J. Bathe joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1986, he founded ADINA R&D, Inc. for fostering the development of the ADINA system. He is a leading world-renowned researcher in the field of finite element analysis who has authored several textbooks and numerous journal papers. Dr. Bathe leads the development of the ADINA system.

Product: ADINA System
Version: 9.4.2
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : www.adina.com
Language: english
System Requirements: PC / Linux
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7even or newer / Linux kernel 2.6.18 and higher, glibc 2.5 or kernel 2.6.32 and higher, glibc 2.12 (AVX version), gcc 4.4.6 and higher
Size: 1.0 Gb