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- INTES announces establishment of wholly owned subsidiary INTES Japan K.K.
- 05.07.2010
Stuttgart, Germany, July 1st, 2010 - INTES GmbH based in Stuttgart, Germany, is pleased to announce that it has created a wholly owned subsidiary, INTES Japan K.K. from July 1st, 2010, located in Tokyo. Representative Directors of INTES Japan are Masafumi Shimozono and Reinhard Helfrich, CEO of INTES.
The objective of INTES Japan is to market and support the software products of INTES GmbH in Japan. INTES Japan will provide comprehensive sales and after-sales support services for all distributed software products in Japan. In addition, INTES Japan will perform consulting projects using the distributed software packages.
"Our investment in INTES Japan is a clear commitment to the Japanese market to provide excellent support to our customers," said Reinhard Helfrich, CEO of INTES. "The new enterprise will bring our great software suite to a big market with many highly experienced engineers, who know very well about Finite Element applications and like to hear how they can improve their performance."
INTES GmbH is developing and marketing the Finite Element (FE) software products PERMAS® and VisPER®. The customers using the software are from automotive industry, mechanical engineering, aerospace industry, and ship building industry. Applications mainly include thermo-mechanical analysis, vibro-acoustics, and optimization. The software is renowned by its superior performance for large scale simulations. In particular, high-performance algorithms in contact analysis and coupled fluid-structure acoustic analysis provide best-in-class performance and analysis capabilities. By integrating optimization with FE methods, the software supports real simulation driven design. For more information, please visit www.intes.de .
The objective of INTES Japan is to market and support the software products of INTES GmbH in Japan. INTES Japan will provide comprehensive sales and after-sales support services for all distributed software products in Japan. In addition, INTES Japan will perform consulting projects using the distributed software packages.
"Our investment in INTES Japan is a clear commitment to the Japanese market to provide excellent support to our customers," said Reinhard Helfrich, CEO of INTES. "The new enterprise will bring our great software suite to a big market with many highly experienced engineers, who know very well about Finite Element applications and like to hear how they can improve their performance."
INTES GmbH is developing and marketing the Finite Element (FE) software products PERMAS® and VisPER®. The customers using the software are from automotive industry, mechanical engineering, aerospace industry, and ship building industry. Applications mainly include thermo-mechanical analysis, vibro-acoustics, and optimization. The software is renowned by its superior performance for large scale simulations. In particular, high-performance algorithms in contact analysis and coupled fluid-structure acoustic analysis provide best-in-class performance and analysis capabilities. By integrating optimization with FE methods, the software supports real simulation driven design. For more information, please visit www.intes.de .
- PERMAS Version 13 and VisPER Version 2 released
- 02.06.2010
Among numerous extensions and enhancements the following achievements will be highlighted here:
A lot of performance improvements emphasize the goal of PERMAS to provide shortest run times for large models. Above all, a new method to handle gasket elements in engine analysis has been introduced in PERMAS which reduces run times up to more than a factor of 10. In this way, engine analyses with bolt pretension, temperature loads, and cylinder pressure loads can be run so fast that even ptimization tasks could be considered. An example engine model with more than 25 Million degrees of freedom and nonlinear gasket elements was computed in less than 3.5 hours elapsed on one compute node.
Dynamic vibration analysis can be performed much faster, too, in particular for models with a high number of modes (> 10000). In this way, the run time for a 22000 modes problem was almost halfened. A subsequent modal frequency response analysis can be accelerated essentially using a new solver. In one example, both improvements together brought the total elapsed time down by a factor of 3.5.
Many extensions were made for the integrated optimization in PERMAS and the related pre- and post-processing in VisPER. With its modern graphical user interface, VisPER supports easy modelling for topology optimization, sizing, shape and bead optimization. All these optimization methods are available with PERMAS and provide efficient optimizations in one software.
Now, Version 13 also contains new optimization algorithms which support optimization of nonlinear analyses and the solution of global optimization tasks. E.g. contact surfaces can now be optimized in order to reduce high contact pressures.
Altogether, almost all functionalities in PERMAS benefit from the development effort over the past two years, from linear and nonlinear statics over NVH and acoustics up to optimization. The new software version provides higher performance and extended functionality to all users.
More information on PERMAS and VisPER and their new releases is available from our homepage (www.intes.de).
- VisPER Version 1.1 released
- 28.05.2009
Example for generation and visualization of shape
basis vectors
VisPER Version 1.1 completes the suite of optimization wizards which support the set-up of optimization models for PERMAS in a graphically guided manner. Beside the already available wizards for topology optimization and sizing optimization VisPER Version 1.1 now also provides a new shape wizard to support the set-up of shape optimizations.
With this release, VisPER provides a uniform graphical user interface for the description of optimization tasks. The optimization is performed by PERMAS, and VisPER is used again to evaluate the optimization results.
Other extensions of VisPER Version 1.1 include
- Specific post-processing of spotweld results
- A new grouping dialogue for the generation of parts
- Extended selections for the generation of sets
- Specification of symmetries and min/max dimensions in the topology optimization wizard
- Improved hole detection and meshing quality in the fluid-structure wizard
- General animations using sliders (e.g. for shape basis vectors, see image)
More information on VisPER can be found here.
VisPER Version 1.1 is available through INTES Support Group (e-mail: support@intes.de).
- INTES on NAFEMS World Congress 2009
- 30.04.2009
INTES will present two papers: "Active Damping of Composites" on the use of control elements in PERMAS for active damping of lightweight structures, and "From Dynamic Model to Acoustic Results" on automated cavity modelling using VisPER for coupled acoustic analysis of car bodies and other structural parts.
Main focus of presentations is to show recent developements in PERMAS and its model editor VisPER.
- INTES on 9th Stuttgart International Symposium , 24 - 25 March 2009
- 28.01.2009
Wirtschaftsministerium Baden-Württemberg, in Stuttgart.
INTES will have a booth on the accompanying exhibition and a presentation together with Daimler AG at 10:30 (25th March) in the Reutlingen room with the theme: Weight 'Optimization of a Gear Wheel Considering the Manufacturing Process and Cyclic Symmetry'
Ulrich Heiselbetz, Daimler AG, J. Müller, INTES GmbH.
Beside well known and established functionalities of PERMAS, INTES will present the new developments of PERMAS Version 12 and the new graphical model editor VisPER.
