May 2025 Edition

2025 OpenRadioss Users' Day | June 11th | In-Person or On-Line

Don't miss it! If you’re coming to the 15th International Conference on Shock and Impact Loads on Structures (SILOS-15), why not make it a double date at no extra cost?

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Introducing Thierry Schwoertzig, Senior Software Development Specialist for Altair’s Simulation & Design Development, who has been integral to bringing a validated dry sand material model to the OpenRadioss Community. The re-implementation of the well-known Sjöbo dry sand compaction and shear strength model, widely cited in literature, enhances the simulation of granular materials in open-source computational mechanics.

Please don’t forget to fill in the "Getting to Know You" poll when you visit the OpenRadioss download page. Your replies are invaluable to get a better idea of the background and expected applications of OpenRadioss envisaged by our Community. Thank you!

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Our OpenRadioss Community LinkedIn Community Group is attracting new members daily from around the world and with diverse interests in applying OpenRadioss.

Here are just a few recent posts you may have missed:

• Running an LS-DYNA Implicit Seat Pull in OpenRadioss
  

“It’s truly resourceful to have powerful open-source tools with such immense potential. Kudos to OpenRadioss team and its community.”

- Dimitrios Sermpinis, Biomechanics/Simulation Engineer

• Impact Simulations with Open-Source Software
• Developing a “Blender” Add-on that Installs an Easy, Accessible and Mostly Automated Process for Creating Rendered Video Presentations from OpenRadioss Simulation Files
  
• Free OpenRadioss FEA Dummy Models Released! (Turkish)
• Unlocking the Next Frontier in High-Performance Simulation: Extreme OpenRadioss Scalability on CloudHPC and AMD EPYC Processors
• Simulation of a Lifeline Using the Mecway with the OpenRadioss Solver (Portuguese)
• Thermal Stress Analysis: Different Thermal Expansion Coefficients Lead to Deformation

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Keep up to date with all the Discussions here:

• Announcing Stable Releases on Linux ARM64 with a new downloadable binary package on GitHub for Linux/Arm64. The package is self-sufficient, containing ARM Runtime (No compiler installation needed); All libraries; OpenRadioss_GUI (needs Python3 & Python3-tk installation). Just download, unzip & use! Read more here.
• Enhancements to INP2RAD tool: The free converter tool between .inp files (popular format supported by Abaqus and other CAE tools) and .rad files (Radioss block format) used to create open-source workflows with FreeCAD and PrePoMax. Download INP2RAD here.

 Keep up to date with all the Discussions here.

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