FEA Newsletter January 2016

94 Pages·2016·0.86 MB·English

Volume 5, Issue 01, January 2016

ICFD Post treatment with LSPP4.3 Observations on Material Modeling

NASA's CORAL Campaign
DELL Raises the Bar
for Open Networking

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02 FEA Information Inc. Profile
03 Platinum Participants
05 TOC
06 Announcements

Articles – Blogs - News
07 DELL Raises the Bar for Open Networking
10 LS-DYNA: Observations on Material Modeling
16 Kaizenat - New Employee Joins Kaizenat
17 CAEI – February to July 2016 Training Schedule
18 BETA CAE Open Meetings 2016
20 FEA Information Inc. 2016 LS-DYNA Conference Reception

AEROSPACE NEWS & EVENTS
NASA's CORAL Campaign Will Raise Reef Studies to a New Level

Automotive & Aerospace Will Return January 2016
• Mercedes-Benz launches a further revolution in mobility in Detroit
• Toyota to Commercialize New Telematics System Using SmartDeviceLink Agreement with
Ford and Livio

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New Material Models for Carbon Fiber Compression Molding Simulation in LS-DYNA
Qiangsheng Zhao (John Zhao – LSTC)
Livermore Software Technology Corporate, Livermore, California, USA

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DELL Raises the Bar for Open Networking
For High resolution graphic www.dell.com Date : 1/20/2016 - Round Rock, Texas

Dell Raises the Bar for Open
Networking with New Disaggregated
Software to Maximize Customer
Choice and Capability

• Operating System 10 (OS10) from Dell disaggregating network software, so customers
Networking establishes a new have more choice in how software is used
benchmark for open software throughout IT operations.
modularity and design for large-scale
“Modern, software-defined, data centers
data centers, cloud operators
require a fresh approach to operations – not just
• Base module leverages unmodified,
for the network, but across compute and
open-source Linux with platform
storage elements as well,” said Tom Burns,
portability and rich application
vice president and general manager, Dell
development environment
Networking and Enterprise Infrastructure.
• Dell plus third-party applications and
“OS10 gives customers a future-ready
programmability available to tailor
springboard to innovate their networks and data
software for different use cases and
center infrastructure more quickly and
operational models
consistently, affording customers greater

Dell today extended its reach in Open efficiency and capability at scale.”

Networking with the announcement of
“OS10 represents an interesting new direction
Operating System 10 (OS10) from Dell
for Dell as it continues to extend and enhance
Networking. This next-generation networking
its networking portfolio with innovations in
software is designed to introduce new levels of
software and hardware,” said Brad Casemore,
software flexibility and programmability in
Research Director, Datacenter Networks, IDC.
large-scale data center environments. The
“It’s worth noting that Dell also is looking
OS10 software environment advances the
beyond networking as
functionality of modern data centers by

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DELL Raises the Bar for Open Networking

an operational silo or a discrete domain, programmer-friendly language between vendor
anticipating fast-evolving requirements for network operating systems and the particular
consumption models, IT operations, and the silicon residing on the physical switch. Today,
breaking down of traditional IT silos.” SAI helps web-scale companies and cloud
providers take advantage of the latest silicon
Disaggregating the Network OS Stack
innovation by enabling them to program the

switches more granularly.
The OS10 platform is designed around new

benchmarks for open software modularity so
• OS10 Application Modules – On top
users can create the most efficient and flexible
of the base module, OS10 can support
paths across networked systems. OS10 is
traditional networking functions (L2/L3
comprised of a base module and various
protocols) from Dell as well as
optional application modules. Now, what had
numerous third-party, native Linux, and
formerly been bundled into tightly-integrated,
open source applications such as IP,
vendor-specific stacks, has been separated to
fabric and security services combined
enhance customer choice, control and
with management and automation tools.
programmability.
This allows customers to tailor IT

operations for different use case and
• OS10 Base Module – The OS10 Base
operational processes.
Module is available for free and runs a

fully-open, unmodified Linux
From Network Operations to Development
distribution. Linux is one of the most
Operations
widely-used operating systems and can

provide a common language across OS10’s unmodified Linux base provides
multiple IT layers including distinct advantages as customers increasingly
networking, storage and compute. The look to design applications and data centers
OS10 Base Module can leverage the across server, storage and networking – not just
Linux community-based benefits which one silo. While OS10 will have appeal for
can help enhance its programmability, traditional network operators seeking
portability, and flexibility for the conventional programming means, the software
application layer above it. will also appeal to DevOps communities
seeking a consistent, common development
Below it, the OS 10 Base Module employs the
environment across server, storage and
Open Compute Project Switch Abstraction
networking elements.
Interface (SAI) that enables a common,

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DELL Raises the Bar for Open Networking

“The ability for organizations to define their prototype customized solutions and help
infrastructure-as-code is a foundational and slash time to production. With OS10’s
necessary part of any DevOps initiative, openness and programming
enabling practices like collaboration and adaptability, I’ve been able to install
continuous delivery,” said Nigel Kersten, CIO standard mono runtime and the F#
at Puppet Labs. “It provides one common language packages and quickly develop
language that can be shared across traditionally a secure IoX application gateway. I can
siloed organizations - like development, even compile and debug on OS10, and
compute, networking and storage - reducing because I have the same software stack,
unnecessary complexity, while increasing both I can do it on my PC to be more
speed and availability. We look forward to productive. I love it!” - Prof. Antonio
continuing to work with Dell and the new Cisternino, Vice-Director IT Center,
OS10 offering as more organizations apply University of Pisa
DevOps practices to network management.”
Availability - In March, Dell expects OS10

Unlocking Customer Innovation - OS10 base module will begin shipping and Dell-
highlights the potential for helping customers developed application modules will enter beta
rapidly develop, customize and ultimately take testing for release later in the year.
advantage of a true software-defined data
Links for the article visit www.dell.com – this
center. Some examples include:
insures DELL updated link changes

• “OS10 from Dell Networking provides • Video: Tom Burns, VP and GM, Dell
the unique flexibility and Networking and Enterprise
Infrastructure, discusses OS10
programmability necessary for a
• Blog: Dell Networking Rocks the Data
modern cloud provider to innovate and
Center Again
succeed in a fast-changing environment.
• OS10 product page - Dell Networking
We’re already seeing significant
home page \
operational benefits from having server- • pen Networking wiki, Dell TechCenter
like manageability combined with our • Follow us at @DellNetworking on
Twitter and Dell Enterprise Group on
server-centric automation tools.” - Jason
LinkedIn
Long, Director, Network Architecture
About Dell - Dell Inc. listens to customers
& Operations, Joyent
and delivers innovative technology and services
• “I believe Dell is onto something that give them the power to do more. For more
special with OS10. It provides a unique information, visit www.dell.com.
development platform to rapidly

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LS-DYNA: Observations on Material Modeling

A series of informal articles about one engineer’s usage of LS-
DYNA to solve a variety of non-crash simulation problems.

By: George Laird, PhD, PE
Principal Mechanical Engineer, Predictive Engineering

www.predictiveengineering.com

As a former metallurgist whose specialty was
structure-property relationships, I have a keen General Entry-Level Discussion on Material
appreciation for how materials deform under Modeling Everybody’s Favorite: HSLA Steel
load. At the federal lab where I worked, we had
a lot of mechanical test equipment where I If you are looking for a primer on how to
could break, crush and impact all sorts of convert engineering stress v strain into true
things. This experience grounded me in my stress v strain, you have come to the wrong
appreciation of how difficult it is to simulate place. That’s too simple and enough
the mechanical response of materials using academicians have already covered it in detail.
some sort of X-Y plot of stress versus strain. So let’s talk about some of the tricks of the
trade that I have learned from reading and my
If one has been reading my prior articles, one colleagues. A quote that I just love to repeat is
knows that I obsess on error management. One “A piece of paper with a stress v strain curve
client remarked, “Could you put error bars on on it is NOT material test data.” That is, one
your stress numbers?” I wish I could, but we do starts with real experimental test data in
engineering projects that have tight schedules spreadsheet form and not picking points off of
and finite budgets. To really quantify your a curve with a straight-edge and pencil. Once
model’s error, or perhaps better said, its you have real data, it can be imported into one
deviation from experimental truth, requires one of the world’s handiest material test data
to start first with the material model and then processing free software – LS-PrePost (LSPP).
move along through all the other modeling With your data in LSPP, you can average it to
assumptions and slights of hand. One day I’ll remove little spikes and then with the reduced
find my Unicorn client that wants to do this but data (one saves the averaged data and then
I’m not holding my breath. In the meantime, reads it back into LSPP), one can take the
for us working engineers, let’s talk about derivative to find slope changes. Since steel
simple material modeling that will keep you out deforms in a smooth continuous manner
of the weeds (since for the difficult stuff I punt through dislocation movement, one should find
and hire a real ‘DYNA material expert). no sharp slope changes in the curve.

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