FEA Abaqus 6.8 software lets medical researchers and device designers lower costs and reduce cycle times by simulating stress, impact, crush, fluid-structure interaction, thermal dynamics, and other complex behaviors. V6.8 has new and improved capabilities including modeling and results visualization, structural analysis, composites failure, general contact, computing performance, and multi-physics. The accompanying image, for example, is of a stent in an artery. Contact capabilities (touching surfaces) assist in the study of complex loading and structural interactions. The new anisotropic hyperelastic material model in Abaqus 6.8 allows complex modeling and analysis of biological tissues.
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