OpenRadioss Users’ Day 2023 – Something Big is happening !
Altair EmployeeThe OpenRadioss Community met in Aachen, home town of the SkyCab, on June 27th, with a full day of technical presentations and discussions around this exciting open-source project.
https://altair-2.wistia.com/medias/uj70zppe7n
First, I want to express my profound gratitude to our host the FH Aachen, University of Applied Science, Germany and to our sponsors and partners AMD, Arm, CIQ and Cornelis Networks for their active support!
| A Worldwide Audience Over 200 attendees in total, 60+ in-person and 140+ for the live stream which we opened at the last minute given the numerous requests from those not able to travel to the charming city of Aachen. It was a day of fruitful exchanges between the members of our community, researchers, industry leaders, developers, and application engineers, all coming together to exchange ideas on their use of OpenRadioss but also on their future needs and suggestions to implement in the code. So, a big thanks to you, the members of this engaged community that I see growing every day and everywhere. This is really encouraging to see this enthusiasm and get such positive feedback after such event! |  |
| Talks from Thoughtful Leaders Here, Paul Du Bois captivates the audience with his inspiring talk about “Challenges in Material Modeling of Metals and Polymers”, explaining the common roots of crash codes and setting some challenges for young generations of mechanical engineering developers! |
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For those who missed the live event, the presentations are available online on OpenRadioss.org.
Several Important Announcements
During the opening session, the OpenRadioss Team introduced::
- The Steering Committee has been set-up to help shape the future of OpenRadioss open-source code. I take this opportunity to thank all the members, and especially those who traveled from all around the world to attend to the Steering Committee meeting held the day before as well as actively participated to the Users Day.
- A ModelExchange repository is created under GitHub. It already contains simple component models as well as more sophisticated examples and large models to assess performance. The aim is really to facilitate knowledge exchange and contributions from the community to increase this database of free models to share.
- The expended support of LS-DYNA input [1] format, which can be directly read and processed by OpenRadioss, with around 200 keywords recognized, and which can be mixed with block format in the same deck thru different include files.
- Many diverse improvements to ease the adoption of OpenRadioss such as Gmsh plug-in, VTK format support for Paraview, Users material SDK, simplified Python-based GUI to run OpenRadioss under Linux and Windows, compatibility with Microsoft Visual Studio for compiling and debugging, …
| A Full and Varied Agenda Besides those improvements coming from the development team, contributions from the Community are increasing quickly, with several examples discussed throughout the day, perfectly aligned with the vision that motivated the decision to open-source Radioss, to democratize explicit dynamics but also increase innovation pace thanks to collaborations between research and industry! Our attendees learnt about initiatives with material and failure models, including battery damage for EV, tire modeling, challenges to adapt to new modes of transportation with this amazing SkyCab experience, biomechanics for healthcare and safety, and on computer science leveraging HPC, DevOps, cloud and AI/ML technics… If you missed the live event, I really encourage you to have a look at openradioss.org to listen to the Community and partners presentations of your choice. With the dynamics and creativity unleashed by our open-source Community combined with the know-how of Altair to maintain an industry grade commercial version of Radioss under dual license, we believe to offer the best of these 2 worlds for the long term benefit of the broader community of crash and impact codes users. |
Meet FH Aachen SkyCab
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