This release includes many advancements and refinements across the board. Highlights include:
Heat Transfer Enhancements:
- Hysteresis Model Integration: Added the hysteresis Kraus model and the Williams-Landel-Ferry (WLF) model to our toolkit, enabling detailed modeling of hysteresis stiffness effects related to strain amplitude, temperature, and frequency.
- Transient Self-Heating Example: Introduced the abaqus-self-heating-transient-goodrich example, demonstrating the new transient self-heating workflow.
Viewer Updates:
- New Crack Growth Output Viewer
- Life Output Table Correction: Fixed the life output table history label column and adjusted the life to accurately sum cycle counts over multiple steps.
General Improvements:
- Start Menu Organization: Reworked the Windows Start Menu organization, grouping all items under a versioned “Endurica xxxx-xxxx” directory. This change declutters the start menu and groups related products together, simplifying user navigation.
- Installer Script Upgrades: Improved Windows batch scripts for better return code handling from executables.
- Abaqus Plugin Updates: Ensured compatibility with Abaqus 2024 (Python 3) through plugin file updates, maintaining our commitment to current standards.
- Output Material Name: Now including each history’s material name in the ko file history metadata for better traceability.
