This section contains general knowledge and useful tips on the following topics in ADINA:

• Engineering Analysis
• Meshing
• Geometry
• Interfaces
• Solvers
• Theory

Engineering Analysis

• Improved Contact Solutions and Traction Calculations
• Gluing Regions of Dissimilar Meshes
• Two Interesting Examples of Mesh Gluing
• Remarks on the Shell Elements in ADINA
• Remarks on the Shell Elements in ADINA, continued
• Surprises in Mode Shapes of Shell Structures
• Surprises in Analyses with Incompatible Modes Elements
• Frequency Analysis of Shell Structures with Contact
• The “Myth of No-Locking” in Nonlinear Analysis of Shells
• Surprises in Analyses with Incompatible Modes Elements
• Remarks on the Use of Incompatible Modes
• Stiffness Matrix Stabilization
• Instability of Two-Term Mooney-Rivlin Model
• Implicit Solutions with Distributed Memory Processing (DMP)
• Explicit Analysis with Distributed Memory Processing (DMP)
• Cyclic Symmetry Analysis
• Gluing in Cyclic Symmetry
• Families of Frequencies in Cyclic Symmetry Analysis
• The Art of Analysis with Hierarchical Modeling
• User-Coded Subroutines in the ADINA System
• Multiphysics with Electromagnetics
• Electromagnetics in ADINA
• Simulation of a Piezoelectric Bimorph Motor
• Analysis of Robots

Meshing

• Meshing Tools in ADINA
• Assessing the Numerical Error in the Finite Element Solution
• Easy Use of Error Measures in ADINA
• New Brick Element Mesher
• Automatic Free-Form All-Brick Elements in Meshes
• Automatic Hex Dominant Meshing
• Effective Meshes using the Size Function Option
• Steered Adaptive Meshing Applications
• Fixed-End Force Corrections for Beam Elements in Linear Static Analysis 

Geometry

• Parasolid Interface
• IGES Interface
• ADINA Modeler with Open Cascade
• ADINA IGES Import with Open Cascade
• Cutting Surfaces in ADINA
• ADINA STEP Import with Open Cascade
• The BODY CLEANUP Tool
• The BODY DEFEATURE Tool
• Point Cloud Data
• Import of Stereolithography Files

Interfaces

• On the ADINA User Interface
• ADINA Pre- and Post-processing Options
• Model Tree View
• The ADINA Fast Graphics Mode (Part I)
• The ADINA Fast Graphics Mode (Part II)
• 3-D Animations with the ADINA Fast Graphics Engine
• Direct Femap Interface to ADINA
• Direct Femap Interface to ADINA — the 3D-bolt
• Direct Femap interface to ADINA — Structural Analysis Example
• ADINA with NX
• Nastran Model File Import
• Nastran Model File Export
• ADINA-SIMPACK Interface
• Ensight with ADINA
• More on EnSight with ADINA

Solvers

• On the Use of the Bathe Subspace Iteration Method
• A New Iterative Solver for Higher-Order Elements in the Analysis of Solids
• The Iterative Solver in ADINA for 3D Models
• Lanczos-iteration Method for Frequency and Buckling Analysis
• The Noh-Bathe Explicit Time Integration Method
• Component Mode Synthesis using ADINA
• Component Mode Synthesis and the Bathe Subspace Iteration Method
• Implicit Time Integration — What Can Go Wrong
• Accurate Implicit Time Integration in Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis
• Seamless Implicit-Explicit Dynamic Analysis
• Customer Experiences with the New ADINA Sparse Solver