Latest ANSA developments for IGA modeling

During the last years the capabilities of both LS-DYNA and ANSA are in continuous progress in terms of creating and analyzing IGA models, especially in crash and safety discipline. Automotive industry studies the behavior of ever more complex mechanical parts by running simulations using both FEA and IGA within a context where robustness and automation are probably the most important keywords. Pre – processing such parts with Isogeometric Analysis gives more accurate results in terms of displacements but robustness is yet to come. Describing and analyzing the parameters of an IGA simulation singularities, plays an important key role in the latest developments of the ANSA pre – processor, opening the way to study new models of high complexity and build hybrid models.