DEFORMTM 2D Version 8.

Release Notes

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Overview:

These release notes are organized as follows:

• Overview of available interfaces

• Additional capabilities
• Improvements in the interface

If there are any questions about the information contained in this document, please
contact Scientific Forming Technologies Corporation. Please review this document, as
it is a general overview of the improvements and exciting new features contained within
this new release.

Overview of available interfaces

There are many new interfaces for the DEFORM system. A description of them is as
follows:

1. The standard DEFORM-2D interface of Pre-Processor, Post-Processor and the Main

menu.
2. DEFORM-F2: An open, hybrid interface to allow the user to either follow an ordered
list to create simulations or to skip through the settings. This interface is extremely
streamlined to construct a large variety of simulations in a very brief time.
3. DEFORM-MO2: An interface to allow the user to construct many successive
operations at the initial setup.
4. Heat-treatment interface: This allows the user to construct many successive heat-
treatment simulations with minimal effort.
5. Inverse heat transfer interface: This allows the to determine the heat transfer
coefficient at the boundary of an object by using actual thermocouple data coupled with
iterative simulation results.
6. Optimization interface: This allows the user to perform optimization simulations of
either preform shape or strain distribution.
7. Machining interface: This allows the user to perform two-dimensional cutting
simulations operations with ease.

Additional capabilities

1. Simulation graphics are now available through the interface.

2. There is now a three-dimensional viewer for post-processing that can be utilized for
all DEFORM-TOOLS users.

Improvements in the interface

Geometry and Display

1. A new geometry-editing dialog with many new options has been added.
2. Many points can be selected at once by clicking and dragging on the displayed
points in the geometry window.
3. A scale has been added to the display window as seen in the figure below.

4. A centerline has been added to the display window for axisymmetric simulations.
5. Geometry now has a shading near the border in order to show the inside versus the
outside. Shading displayed on the inside of the geometry indicates correct
(counterclockwise) orientation for closed bodies.
6. There are now primitive geometry definitions available in the geometry definition.
7. Geometry can now be created through a series of boolean operations.
8. Fixed the problem in transformation data initialization/display.
9. Improved the picking in element and edge initialization.

Object Positioning:

10. When positioning objects, the window definitions (such as mesh density windows)
will be positioned accordingly with the body.
11. Multiple objects can be coupled together when positioning. This will allow the
user to position many objects simultaneously.
12. Mouse-driven positioning is available. Objects can be dragged using the
mouse.

Object Movement:

13. Spring-loaded dies are now available.

14. The screw press model now has a template for multiple blows.
15. The problem of not showing asterisk for the picked axis in object movement has
been fixed.

Object Meshing:

16. Mesh density windows can now be reordered manually.

17. When saving point tracking data directly to file, the format is now all on a
single line in order to be excel-friendly.
18 Absolute mesh density is available now by setting the number of elements to zero.
19. Thickness elements are now saved to keyword and database files.
20. DEFORM-2D can now read and border extract meshes with degenerate elements
(triangular).
21. Picking nodal and element information after interpolation of state variables now
works correctly.

Object Boundary Conditions

22. Edge BCC now works correctly in the case of multiple mesh boundaries.

Material Properties

23. The pasting of numbers to the flow stress table has been improved to have higher
precision.
24. The phase transformation kinetics dialog has been consolidated into the phase
transformation dialog.

Inter-Object Properties
25. Fixed problem of failing to delete self-contact relation in inter-object dialog.
26. The friction user routine number of inter-object is now saved into the database.
27. Heat transfer coefficient as a user routine is now available.
28. Inter-object relations for one non-rigid object is now allowed.
29. Friction window re-ordering is now allowed.

Database Generation

30. The warning for the 0.005 force convergence for elasto-plastic simulations has
been removed.
31. When defining either distance per step or time per step, the other is now set to
zero.

Simulation

32. Simulations can now be submitted to a remote license server.

33. Floating licenses can be monitored remotely now.
34. Spaces in the directory name are now legal for the batch queue.

Post-Processing

35. Unit conversion is now available in the post-processor.

36. Graph smoothing is now available.
37. Shear angle can now be plotted from the Simulation Summary window.
38. Point tracking and flow-net have more options for their display.
39. Micro-structural variables and user variable can now be point tracked.
40. The flow-net capability has been improved to handle concave shapes.
41. Added 2D torque, angular velocity, and angle rotated to load stroke graphing.
42. Add 6 more levels to user defined color editor
43. Stroke can now be placed on the y-axis for load/stroke curves.
44. New viewport options have been added.
45. Increase step combobox pull down list length to display larger number of entries.
46. Implemented vector plot for principal stress/strain/strain rate
47. Line contour - show geometry for object without mesh
48. User specified range for state variables is stored independently for each variable.

Miscellaneous:

49. Multiple resolutions now available for printing

Additions and Enhancements to the Simulation Engine

50. Improved phase transformation kinetics models

a. Allow simultaneous modeling of competing A->B, A->C phase transformations. The

model utilizes an Avrami formulation augmented with physics-based factors such as
interfacial area between mother and child phases.

b. Equilibrium volume fraction. This can be used to compute volume fraction of

precipitation, as well as transformation like Austenite -> Ferrite, where equilibrium
volume fraction depends on carbon content.

c. State variables are simplified. Incubation time (TICF), starting volume fraction
(VOLFN) not used anymore.

Additions and Enhancements to the Inverse Heat Transfer Template

51. Diffusion is added.

52. Symmetrical plane definitions.
53. Allow heat treatment medium temperature specified as function of time.
54. Allow to deactivate certain transformation for particular operations.

Additions and Enhancements to the Inverse Heat Transfer Template

55. Allow one heat transfer zone to contain two or more segments on the boundary.
56. On-line checking of currently best heat transfer coefficients.
57. Convenient restart using results from previous optimization.
58. Final simulated thermal history is compared with experimental measurements.