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ALGOR V22.1 - Ships August 2008

CAD Support (Direct)
  • Adding support for IronCAD on Microsoft Windows Vista
  • Updating support for Alibre Design 11
  • Improving support for assembly-level features in Alibre Design models
CAD Support (Universal)
  • Improving import of ACIS models
Documentation
  • Adding examples using transient coupled fluid flow with heat transfer analysis
FEMPRO
  • Improving import of ANSYS models
  • Improving handling of element definition including lamina
  • Improving display options for element orientation
  • Improving handling of rotation when using the Glue command
  • Improving meshing
    • Improving ability to select parts in the tree view for 2-D meshing
  • Improving load curves for radiation thermal loads
Linear Dynamic Analysis
  • Improving handling of load cases/curves for Transient Stress (Direct Integration) analysis
Material Library Manager
  • Adding capabilities for handling temperature-dependent material data including cut, paste and read from a file
  • Adding capability to order custom material libraries alphabetically
Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver
  • Adding capability to define lateral-only hydrostatic loads on shell elements
  • Improving point-to-point contact
PipePak
  • Adding the capability to undo a pipe division
  • Improving import and export of CAESAR II models
  • Improving handling of forces and moments for user-defined reports based on the SI unit system
  • Improving the PipeView legend box to have the optional capability to not show results for hidden sections of the design
PV/Designer
  • Adding capability to cancel out of PV/Designer without updating the model
Report Wizard and Environment
  • Adding capability to choose which log files are included in the report
Superview Results Environment
  • Adding capability for full 3-D display of symmetric model results
  • Adding capability to hide parts for stress linearization

ALGOR V23 - Ships October 2008

CAD Support (Direct)
  • Improving support for importing Autodesk Inventor models including surface-knitting data, edge associativity and material data
  • Improving support for Mechanical Desktop:
    • Adding face and edge associativity
    • Adding automatic remeshing
    • Adding InCAD toolbar
FEMPRO
  • Improving meshing tools:
    • Adding capability for user-controlled de-featuring of VCAD models
    • Adding support for solid tetrahedral mesh sizing
    • Adding capability for face-to-face intersection to allow imprinting of surface models
    • Improving matching between midplane-meshed and solid parts
  • Adding capability for linear contact on unmatched meshes
Fluid Flow Analysis
  • Adding temperature-dependent viscosity to simulate phase change in coupled heat transfer analyses
Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver
  • Adding Ogden and Mooney-Rivlin hyperelastic material models for membrane elements
  • Adding selective reduced integration (B Bar) plate formulation for large 2-D compression analysis
  • Adding elastic soil boundary elements
  • Adding compression-only boundary conditions and springs
  • Improving analysis parameters for mass transfer analysis by setting default element type to brick
PipePak
  • Adding master/slave constraints
  • Updating support for ASME code B31.8 for gas transmission and distribution piping systems
PV/Designer
  • Adding support for elliptical nozzles
  • Adding support for rectangular nozzles
Report Wizard and Environment
  • Adding capability to export an XML file from a custom material property library
  • Adding capability to list moments and reaction forces in a report
Stress Analysis with Linear Material Models
  • Adding Lagrange multiplier approach to surface contact for unmatched meshed parts
  • Adding elastic soil boundary elements
  • Improving convergence of linear contact by using contact area
Superview Results Environment
  • Adding support for Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) code checking
  • Adding capability to output and display stress results for midside nodes

ALGOR V24 - Ships March 2009

CAD Support (Direct)
  • Adding capability to change units when opening any CAD model
FEMPRO
  • Adding display of model shadow
  • Adding patternless texture display of CAD geometry
  • Adding ability to draw ellipses and import ellipses from DXF files
  • Adding beam preload on load curve in the bolt wizard
  • Adding capability to remotely check an analysis
  • Improving toolbar icons
  • Improving consistency of toolbar functionality across environments
  • Improving handling of adding construction points relative to a previous point
  • Improving meshing tools:
    • Adding support for remote solid meshing
    • Adding support for parallel meshing
  • Improving animation of 3-D rotation by using spherical linear interpolation (SLERP)
Fluid Flow Analysis
  • Adding uncoupled compressible flow using ideal gas law
  • Adding open (outflow) boundary for ease of modeling and improved convergence
  • Improving consistency of features between 2-D and 3-D steady fluid flow analysis
Heat Transfer Analysis
  • Adding support for body-to-body radiation in memory database (.FEM) file
Mechanical Event Simulation/Nonlinear Solver
  • Adding support for high-strain plasticity (hyperplastic)
  • Adding support for surface-to-surface contact in memory database (.FEM) file
  • Adding damage material model for shell elements with five degrees of freedom
  • Adding ability to display results in element local coordinate systems
PipePak
  • Improving toolbar icons
PV/Designer
  • Improving toolbar icons
Report Wizard and Environment
  • Adding spell-checking capability for user-entered text
Stress Analysis with Linear Material Models
  • Adding multipoint constraints for reduced linear equation size and faster analysis run times
Superview Results Environment
  • Adding capability to view results in any units
  • Updating code checking to latest AISC code