GENOA 4.2 Update 1 Release Announcement

    The latest 4.2.1 release contains significant improvements in many modules and new features such as Filament Winding Fluid Weight support, Real Time Graph monitoring, and a new HTML Help System for fast searching and efficient viewing of the user manuals.

List of Significant Features and Updates:

• New HTML Help System added with new Help menu in GUI
• New Project binary file format (.gen) added
  100% CPU Consumption of Java GUI during analysis run (PFA) fixed and better Java consumption of processor and memory.
• Progress Bar Dialogs improved while Saving project and Executing PFA
• Incomplete Execution of DOS Commands from premature process killing
• Fixed Linux HOSTID retrieval problem
• Relaxed format (parsing) for Model files
• Bug fixed while saving Project files at the end of the simulation
• Bug fixed for MCA module (changing material properties were ineffective)
• Bug fixed for wireframe under display menu when white scheme option is selected
• GUI displays RBE2 elements in NASTRAN
• Defining Node Sets and implementation in Boundary Conditions, Load, and DCZM3D dialogue boxes
• Improved Node selection method for VCCT, DCZM, and Duplicate nodes in GUI
• Fixed warning message in GUI for honeycomb (all solution types are supported)
• Harmonic Fatigue PFA bug fix (now both odd and even cylces are accepted)
  ABAQUS translator for nlgeom as large displacement, import nset information, and surface definition for DSLOAD fixed
• Selected schedules can be seen during the animation under Results:model and can be monitored for damages
• Updated displacement and loading values are now visible during the animation on nodes where force and boundary conditions are defined
• Rotational force option included in pfa using NASTRAN and Body Force option in NASTRAN, LS-DYNA, and ABAQUS as FE solvers
• Intermixing of Fiber/Matrix and Lamina in Ply Schedule Editor for PFA (PFO, MUA, MCA, and MCO modules do not support this feature)
• Added Monte Carlo and Advanced Mean Value Plus Probability Methods in the Probability Analysis module
• PLY RESIDUAL STRESS File feature added to PFA Advanced Parameters
• Residual Stress Panel added to GUI under Setup menu where it reads the *.mhs file generated by Filament Winding Module
• Fluid weight can be selected as an option for considering induced stresses under Filament Winding Module
• Merge tab added to the Filament Winding Module where frictionless contact can be defined using ABAQUS as FE solver. The feature also allows frictionless contact to be defined for the MHOST and NASTRAN FE solvers by automatically wrting tying equations in the normal direction.
• DCZM module extended for surfaces defined by shell and solid elements
• TYING NODES and Pressure capabilities extended for LS-DYNA FE Solver
• Strain Gage option implemented to monitor stresses and strains along the user defined direction
• A new Real Time Graph option is added under the Results section where the user can display the stress, strains, displacements and damages as shown in the model view for the selected node(s) or element(s). The user is also able to export the data. Combined with Strain Gage feature, the user can now export the stresses and strains in user defined coordinate system in real time for one or multiple nodes and elements
• GUI is able to display RBE2 elements
• Merging feature for combining two FE models improved
• Post Extracted FEMxxx.nes file now contains ply and material properties