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TRINITAS is a Graphical Environment for Conceptual Design, Optimization and Finite Element Analysis. Major Objectives to obtain an overall speed-up of the entire engineering-cycle to increase control to reduce sources for errors.

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New Trinitas in A Nutshell

TRINITAS is a Graphical Environment for Conceptual Design, Optimization and Finite Element Analysis. Major Objectives to obtain an overall speed-up of the entire engineering-cycle to increase control to reduce sources for errors.

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TRINITAS

a Graphical Environment for Conceptual Design, Optimization and Finite Element Analysis

Major Objectives
to obtain

an overall speed-up of the entire engineering-cycle


to increase

control
to reduce

sources for errors


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Scope

Geometry, Domain property and Boundary

condition modeling

Mesh generation Analysis Evaluation Optimization


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Geometry modeling

Points

Surfaces
3-, 4- and N - edged general 3-D faces

Lines
Straight Line Parabola Cubic Bezier Circular Arc

Volumes
2D, 3D and Axisymmetric volumes as 4 -, 5 -, 6 - or N faced regions

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Boundary Conditions
Essential Boundary Conditions
Fixed and Prescribed Displacement or Temperatures

Natural Boundary Conditions


General volume, surface, line and point loads Pressures

Contact Interfaces in 2D and 3D


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Boundary Conditions (continued)


All boundary conditions can be made dependent of both space, time and temperature

Defined as symbolic functions


Or by User-subroutines

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Element library
Bar and Beam elements in 2D and 3D 2D, Axi-sym. and 3D Solid elements from 3 to 27

nodes
Mindlin-Reissner 3D 3- to 9-node Shell elements Full or selective Gauss integration technique

Iso- or Orthotropic material behavior

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Mesh Generation
Mapped and free meshed sub-domains
Advancing Front Technique capable of

adaptive analysis (only 2D)


A fast topology based bandwidth minization algorithm
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Constraints between:
(master and slave)

Beam to Shells Beam to Solids

Solid to Bar Solid to Beam

Shell to Shells
Shell to Solids Solid to Solids Rigid Links

Solid to Shell
Shell to Beam Shell to Bar Groups of nodes

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Analysis Overview
Linear static heat

transfer analysis
Linear buckling analysis Linear static elasticity analysis including

Dynamic eigenvalue analysis Transient heat transfer analysis

Transient linear elasticity analysis

optimization
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Linear static elasticity analysis


Adaptivity (only 2D currently)

Contact Mechanics
Fracture Mechanics Quasi-static Load Sequences Topology, Shape & Size Optimization MPI Conjugate gradient solver on the element

level is available
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Adaptivity (2D)

H-refinement technique

Local Super-convergent Patch Recovery Technique


3- or 6-node plane or axi-symmetric triangular elements are available A User-chosen relative energy error tolerance level have to be defined
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Contact Mechanics
Automatic contact interface generation along shared lines and surfaces in the geometry a Gap function defines overlap or clearance as function of space and time Node to Node contact without friction Lagrangian solution or direct transformation

technique
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Fracture Mechanics
Virtual crack extension technique Automatic crack growth direction calculation
(currently only in 2D)

Automatic integration of Paris law


(currently only in 2D)

Crack Closure
Semi-manual 3D crack growth analysis can been carried out
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Topology Optimization
for Bar, Beam, Shell and 2D, Axi-sym.
and 3D Solids

Optimality criteria method


Filtering techniques

MPI-implementation under testing


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Shape Optimization
Min Weight, Max Stiffness or MinMax stress

C1-continuity in-between Bezier splines


Analytical Brookeman derivatives Moving Asymptotes (MMA) is utilized for solving non-linear optimization problems in the design variables
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Linear static heat transfer analysis


Fixed flux Fixed temperature Convective boundaries

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Dynamic eigenvalue analysis


Sub-space iterations* Generalized Jacobi-method for the sub-problem

Lumped or consistent mass


Stress stiffening or not Automatic shifting of the eigenvalues
*(See Thomas J.R. Hughes The Finite Element Method )

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Linear transient heat transfer analysis


Generalized Trapezoidal rule*
Backward or forward Euler Unconditionally or conditionally stable Automatic time step control
*(See Thomas J.R. Hughes The Finite Element Method )

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Linear transient elasticity analysis


Generalized Newmark algorithm* Implicit and explicit Lumped or consistent mass Rayleigh damping
*(See Thomas J.R. Hughes The Finite Element Method )

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Linear Buckling analysis


Sub-space iterations The Algorithm is shared by the Dynamic eigenvalue analysis

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Non-linear static stress and strain analysis


Line search with automatic restart
A global non-linearized spherical arc-length control Automatic load increment control

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Evaluation
Dynamic visualization of single numeric scalar- or vector node- or element values General tools for scalar- and vector-field

visualization
2D-graph representations of functions both in time or space. Dynamic or Static storage
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Evaluation (continued)
Arbitrary number of independent cameras visualizing different result entities PostScript images of all camera views by a

single command
Animation

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Implementation Details
The code consists of 8.6 Mb source code files with 4612
subroutines and 1252 functions written in FORTRAN 90 Currently used development environment is Intel Visual

Fortran
The program runs under Windows, Linux and Beowulf clusters under MPI OpenGL is utilized for 3D rendering Object-Oriented domain decomposition
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Object Oriented Decomposition


Hierarchy: Model Interface Class Interface Matrix Interface Array Interface Data base Object Interface
Model Interface Class Interface Matrix Interface Create_a_New_Project Set_Current_Project Get_Class_Name(Object_Name, Array Interface Class Examples: Delete_Current_Project Set_Class_Name(Object_Name, Activities: Activities: Delete_Class_Name(Object_Name, Point Create, Get, Set, Exist, Create, Set, Get, Delete, Change_Name Exist_Class_Name(Object_Name) Line Exist, Delete Create_A_New_Model Surface Attributes: Set_Current_Model Support: Attributes: Object_Name Init_Current_Model Volume Get_New_Class_Object_Name Array Identifier Number_of_Rows Copy_Current_Model Internal Pointer Get_Number_of_Class_Instances ... Number_of_Columns Add_to_Current_Model Number of Bytes Matrix_Type FE-Classes Delete_Current_Model Matrix_Precision Internal pointers ... Temporary or Permanent Close_Current_Model
About 100 classes

Memory

Registers

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Data base Object Interface


Registers Memory Internal pointer ~1 Gbyte

Registers
Logical Disk Array Virtual internal pointer Many Gbytes

Data Base File Memory Buffer

Data Base File Record Length Data Base File Record Length Number of Data Base File Records Number of Data Base File Records

Back Buffer

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General Features
Finite element analysis in a What You See Is What You Get fashion No need for Node- or Element numbers in any situation Graphic control reduces the sources for errors to a minimum Errors is discovered as early as possible
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Current Major Bottlenecks

3D geometry modeling

NURBS surfaces General 3D Boolean operations

An unstructured 3D mesh generator do not exist

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