AniForm Core
AniForm Core is an implicit finite element solver for accurate and fast 3D simulations with anisotropic materials, such as fibre reinforced composites, woven fabrics and unidirectional pre-pregs. The core is a script based finite element code. AniForm PrePost enables you to set up a simulation and to view the simulation results.
Key features
Elements
3 node membrane elements
3 node discrete Kirchhoff elements
4 node linear tetrahedron elements
10 node quadratic tetrahedron elements
Contact logic
Penalty method, including self-contact
Coulomb and viscous friction types
Rigid tooling
Deformable tooling
Material models
Isotropic elastic
Viscous, Newtonian and non-Newtonian
Elastic fibre models
Spencer fibre reinforced fluid model
Two parameter Mooney Rivlin model
Other key features
Automatic step sizing
Parallelised and implicit solver
Save and restart simulations
Script file based input
Dynamics
Read more about key features.
Supported operating systems
Windows
Windows 10, version 1809 (October 2018 update) or higher.
Windows Server 2019 LTSC (version 1809) or higher.
Might run on older 64-bit platforms (not on 32-bit), but these have not been tested.
Linux
Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS
Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS
Debian 11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8.6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Service Pack 4
Hardware advice
Example A (excellent configuration):
1x Intel Xeon W-3265 Processor, 192GB ECC memory.
More about Intel Xeon W Processors can be found at the Intel website.
6x ECC Samsung M393A4K40CB2-CVF – Memory DDR4 - 32 GB - DIMM 288-PIN - 2933 MHz
Use ECC memory.
Use an SSD disk to store the data on for the running simulation(s).
Example B (good configuration):
1x Intel Xeon Gold 6144 Processor, 64GB ECC memory.
Processor selection determined by available budget, e.g. Intel Xeon Gold 6134 or 6136.
More about Intel Xeon Scalable Processors can be found at the Intel website.
Use an SSD disk to store the data on for the running simulation(s).
Use the ECC memory type.
Expand memory further to 128GB or 256GB when your budget allows.
