Latest advancements for IGA model creation with ANSA

During the last two years, ANSA, the leading preprocessor for crash analysis, has been heavily involved supporting the IGA community, helping create IGA models and Hybrid FE-IGA full vehicle crash models. In doing so we a set a dual target. First, advance and explore all needed technologies which are mainly new and mostly in academic research phase. Second, bring in, industry expertise in making these technologies robust and well suited for production, both in terms of stability and performance, but also in terms of data interoperability and adaptation to the highly automated process flows that characterize current automotive crash procedures. The cooperation with the ANSYS LST team has been very fruitful and rewarding. These latest developments in the pre-processor side are presented in this presentation.