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Material and structure modelling software released

05 March 2009

DIGIMAT 3.2.1 features:

Improved homogenisation of strain rate dependent composites (elasto-viscoplastic) for crash analysis;
New capabilities to model composite failure including Kelly-Tyson model for strength computation;
Homogenization of electrical and thermal conductivities and modelling of multi-layered composites with Digimat-MF & Digimat-FE;
Support of fibre orientation tensors on an integration point bases; and
Distributed Memory Parallelisation (DMP) of Digimat to computer-aided engineering (CAE) interfaces.

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