Aerospace and Marine 2020.1 Release Notes

Highlights

Stress tool enhancements

Beam Config: New design point config beam is available with three types: beam, beam member and beam shell. The latter supports the free body section as a design point that enables you to perform beam certification methods on shell elements.; Two methods are shipped with the installation: Beam Compressive Crippling $f σ_{x} < 0, M S = σ_{x} / F_{c c} - 1; w i t h F_{c c} = F_{c y} * (1 - K c r i p p l i n g * (L ’ / p) / π * s q r t (E / F_{c y}))$ and Beam Axial stress $f σ_{x} > 0, M S = σ_{x} / F_{t u} - 1; i f σ_{x} < 0, M S = σ_{x} / F_{c y} - 1$ .
Chain Methods: A method can take its arguments as a result from a previous method. This enables you to chain methods one after the other and include some sorting, either spatial aggregation or loadcase enveloping.
Restriction: JointLoad method for Rivet is not valid for method chaining in this release.

Dockable Certification Browser: Aerospace > Certification > Certify is changed to Aerospace > Certification > Certification Browser and is now an (un) dockable browser.
Contouring Method: Enhanced contouring user interface to support sorting options. Depending on the method output and design point config, the following values are available: per loadcase, per layer and on element vs on design point.; Loadcase and layer selection, if applicable, can be set to Envelope. The sort key (min|max|absmin|absmax) will be applied to perform aggregation lively on contour. Similarly, if method output is per element but you select the Entity Column as DDP aggregation is performed using the same sorting key.
Restriction: Only one key is valid for all aggregations at a time.
Consolidated Table: Whenever multiple methods are assigned to a design point set, a consolidated table is added to find most critical methods per location. Method registration needs to tag one output as Margin of safety to be considered as a comparison key and be registered in the consolidated table. Contour invoked from design point set level will select the consolidated table. The sort key will be used to compare method MS.
API to run method on mark of element: The *rundesignmethod API can now run a method directly on a mark of element without design points.; *rundesignmethod designpointmethods id=$methodid \; targetentitytype=elements\; targetentitymark=$markid\; loadcaselist=$strLoadCases