Symbiotic Combination of HyperWorks with Code Aster
Benjamin Nerstheimer, HME
Various well-established commercial FEM-software packages
exist (e.g. ABAQUS, ANSYS or MSC.MARC). The licenses for these
softwares as well as the maintenance and support contracts
are usually extremely cost-intensive.
In contrary open source FEM-solvers can be an appealing alternative
and potential possibility to lower or even avoid these financial
burdens. One of these solvers is Code- Aster which is developped
by Electricité de France and published under the GNU
General Public License.
Since Code Aster offers only a solver functionality, additional
powerful pre- and postprocessing tools are
necessary to handle projects efficiently.
As a commonly used software-suite Altair HyperWorks
provides the necessary interfaces for a cost-
and time-saving work in combination with Code
Aster. This presentation gives a review about the
workflow and the possible customization of
HyperWorks with regard to Code Aster file formats.
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