In the Advanced Settings section of the
Terminal feature in the Electrostatics interface, there is now support for a
Terminal area multiplication factor. This multiplication factor can be used to model the effects of symmetry. A connected load or circuit will then perceive the full device, even though the model includes only part of it. For details, see
Symmetry Factors for the Terminal Feature in the release notes for the AC/DC Module.
A new feature, General Contact, is available in the Solid Mechanics interface. This contact formulation is particularly useful when there are many different boundaries that can come into contact with each other. For details, see
General Contact in the release notes for the Structural Mechanics Module.
A smooth penalty function has been added to the Contact and
Interior Contact nodes. It is also available in the new
General Contact feature. For details, see
Smooth Penalty Function for Contact in the release notes for the Structural Mechanics Module.
The control over the formulation of geometric nonlinearity in the Geometric Nonlinearity settings of the
Linear Elastic Material node havs been updated to speed-up large strain analysis while giving virtually the same results as using full multiplicative decomposition. For details, see
Logarithmic Strains in the release notes for the Structural Mechanics Module.
The Solid Mechanics interfaces now support the Linear Buckling study and study step. For details, see
Linear Buckling for Periodic Structures in the release notes for the Structural Mechanics Module.
A new checkbox, Correct for mismatching boundaries, has been added to the settings in the
Continuity node. For details, see
Continuity in the release notes for the Structural Mechanics Module.
A new default plot of total stored energy, Wh_tot, is available for
Frequency Domain studies with electromechanics or piezoelectricity coupling. The default plot provides a visualization of the frequency response and resonance peaks of an electromechanical system.