4. Changelog

ANSYS Composite Cure Simulation - LMAT ltd

4.1. v3.2

  • Fixed bug with material state definition

  • Fixed bugs for Surface Exporter in ACCS

  • Fixed bugs with geometry scoping in RTM results and thermal import

  • Improved documentation for RTM solver theory and settings

  • Added progress info to solve.out for RTM solver

  • Improved speed of RTM solver

  • Improved speed of RTM results loading

  • Increased priority of thermal import over others thermal definitions

  • Fixed node numbering bug with time dependent boundary conditions for RTM solver

  • Added support for transfering degree of cure from RTM simulation to ACCS simulation (thermal or structural)

  • Changed algorithn used to map thermal import results onto current mesh

4.2. v3.1

  • Added more file types for Surface Exporter in ACCS (inp, cdb,ply)

  • Fixed bug with Copy Analysis Settings tool

  • Fixed bug in glassy Material Properties

  • Fixed bug in Prony series with low scaled time increments

  • Fixed bug in thermoplastics when computing amorphous retardation time

  • Fixed bug in RTM solver with thickness of shell elements

  • Improved support in RTM solver for systems with non-dot decimal separator

  • Fixed bug in RTM solver with indexing of ACP plies

  • Fixed bug in RTM solver with input creation

4.3. v3.0

  • Added support for internal heat generation condition

  • Removed negative value limitation for time shift parameters

  • Added support for viscoelasticity in poisson’s ratio

  • Fixed bug with multiterms prony series

  • Added support for initially defined degree of cure via INISTATE

  • Integrated RTM solver into WB/Mechanical

  • Added more materials in the default database

4.4. v2.9

  • No major changes

4.5. v2.8hf2 (internal)

  • Added support for initially defined degree of cure

4.6. v2.8hf1 (internal)

  • Added support for internal heat generation condition

4.7. v2.8

  • Added windows scripts to run the solver

4.8. v2.8/v2.7hf1

  • Fixed bug with number of state variables which caused memory overflow

  • Fixed bug with AnalysisSettings StoreResultsAt

  • Fixed bug with Mechanical Elastic Strains which caused inconsistencies with viscoelasticity

  • Changed formula for Prony series

  • Removed other viscoelastic models

4.9. v2.7

  • Fixed bug in Kamal-Sourour cure kinetic equation

4.10. v2.7/v2.6hf1

  • Fixed bug in viscoelasticity cure time shift implementation

  • Added RTM solver capability (initial implementation)

4.11. v2.5hf1/v2.6

  • Corrected intermittent bug with FAST approach

  • Corrected bug with viscoelasticity

  • Removed isotropic definitions

  • Removed automatic material check on WBPZ resume

  • Corrected bug with licensing on cluster

  • Improved customer experience with licensing in WB

4.12. v2.5

  • Adapted code for new ACP material definition

  • Updated documentation for ACCS scripting

  • Added support for WB languages other than English

  • Changed token policy (one token checked out when starting WB)

4.13. v2.4

  • Changed installer to INNO and improved silent installs

  • Fixed unit conversion on material upgrade

  • Fixed unit issue with Thermoplastics (C3 constant in K^3)

  • Fixed bug with Thermoplastics computation

  • Fixed intermittent bug with deepcopy module

  • Removed workaround for userthstrain not being run if T==Tref

  • Improved reactivity for material check

  • Added scripting interface

  • Fixed low importance bugs

4.14. v2.3

  • Changed licensing feature name

  • Implementation of Compensated Surface Exporter (STL, RSO and cloud point)

  • Moved to unified implementation

  • Integrated thermoplastics definition in EngD

  • Changed documentation to HTML format

  • Removed Tutorials

  • Improved material upgrade in EngD

  • Added automatic check for material upgrade in EngD

  • Added support to shell element models in the FAST approach

4.15. v2.2

  • Added support for dead elements

  • Added button to copy steps setup in analysis settings from thermal to mechanical

  • Introduction of new visco-elastic models

  • Implementation of Karkanas-Partridge (M21) cure kinetic model

  • Implementation of separate fibre and matrix properties in EngD

  • Initial support for thermoplastics (only USERMAT prop in EngD)

4.16. v2.1

  • No major changes

4.17. v2.0

  • Reimplementation of thermal strains computation (from global to incremental)

  • Corrected cosmetic bug in Engineering Data (Total Heat of Reaction and Activation Energy units)

4.18. v1.9

  • Upgraded icons for new Ribbon design

  • Added support for silent install and uninstall

  • Changed default values for material properties evolution

  • Corrected minor bug in computation of material properties evolution

  • Corrected minor bug in unit support for material properties evolution

4.19. v1.8

  • Added support for temperature dependence of Solid Elastic properties

  • Fixed problem with unit conversion

  • Fixed problem with isotropic material properties

4.20. v1.7

  • Fixed problem with decimal marker and locale

4.21. v1.6

  • Added viscoelasticity behaviour for FULL approach

4.22. v1.5

  • Maintenance release

4.23. v1.4

  • Bug Fix with incorrect selection of material properties during cure

4.24. v1.3

  • Details added in the description of the materials in the EngineeringData Database

  • Moved thermal expansion from ACCS extra results into built-in thermal expansion results

  • Added info message for missing license when starting WB

  • Improved result extraction speed

  • Added Changelog.txt to install files

4.25. v1.2

  • Bug correction on uninstaller: Did not remove all traces of ACCS

  • Increased element support in WB Mechanical: SOLID87 can now be used in structural analyses

  • Efficiency improvement in support subroutines

4.26. v1.1

  • Bug correction on installer: Did not use the ANSYS path from the target machine

4.27. v1.0

  • Initial release