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Events / SIMULIA Customer Conference / Special Interest Groups
Special Interest Groups
Building on the success of 2009, we will once again host Special Interest Groups (SIGs), which provide attendees with networking opportunities with other attendees and with SIMULIA staff focused on specific industries or technology.
Each SIG session will be led by an industry expert from SIMULIA who will provide a 15-minute overview of SIMULIA’s strategy, capabilities, and new functionalities. Some SIGs will include a presentation from a key customer on an innovative application. The remainder of the time will be spent discussing value, applications (both current and future), and needs. The SIGs will adjourn directly to lunch where individual discussions can continue.
Special Interest Group Topics Include:*
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Aerospace and Defense 
This SIG will provide a forum for discussions on modeling and methodologies for key topics such as composites, mechanisms, blast (both UNDEX and CEL approaches for water and air blast), and dynamics for Aerospace and Defense applications.
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Energy
The Energy SIG discussions will cover the critical needs of various energy sectors (nuclear, oil & gas, wind etc.) with an emphasis on needs that span multiple sectors. This includes such items as welding simulations, fracture mechanics, soil-structure interaction, seismic assessments, and fluid-structure interaction.
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Fracture and Failure
Topics discussed will include all aspects of fracture, failure, material damage and fatigue. Modeling fracture and failure is a very challenging task across a wide spectrum of industries. Over the past seven years, the input of our customers has directly led to the release of substantial new fracture capability including cohesive elements, VCCT, material damage models, J-integral contour modeling, low cycle fatigue with direct cyclic, and many other enhancements. Abaqus 6.9 and beyond, continues this trend with the release of XFEM with a vision of achieving our long-term goal of making the modeling of fracture and failure as common as including the effects of Mises plasticity. Your input will help us continue to align our strategy in fracture/failure/fatigue simulation with real industry needs, fill in any missing functionality and prioritize work.
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Life Sciences
This SIG will include discussions on recent advances to Nitinol modeling in Abaqus (including plasticity and fatigue), and soft and hard tissue behaviors, musculo-skeletal modeling and converting orphan meshes to geometry. The SIG will also feature short informational presentations by SIMULIA software partners in the LifeSciences area such as medical imaging.
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Simulation Lifecycle Management: Product Focus on SLM, Including Isight and Fiper Technology
The SLM SIG will provide an open forum where interested parties can discuss the requirements, opportunities, and challenges associated with securing, managing, and reusing valuable simulation intellectual property in order to make simulation an integral business practice. SIMULIA is experiencing great interest in our offerings in this area and we wish to ensure that our products are developed with the needs of our existing, strong customer base fully in mind.
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Turbomachinery
This SIG will focus on applications of Abaqus and Isight for a wide variety of turbomachines, including aircraft engines, steam and gas turbines, hydro turbines, pumps, compressors, and turbochargers. Depending on the interests of the attendees, we can include such topics as rotordynamics, stress and vibration analysis, fatigue and fracture analysis, composites simulation and analysis, preliminary design optimization, aero/mechanical optimization of blading, and robust design.
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*Subject to change based on interest.
About the Moderators
Jonathan Arata, Ph.D, PE – Principal Solutions Engineer – Defense and Shipbuilding, SIMULIA
Jonathan joined SIMULIA in July 2008 as our industry lead for the Defense and Shipbuilding business sectors after a 2-decade long career as an engineer, researcher, and business developer in the US defense industry. He is responsible for developing and promoting our strategy for the expansion of the use of simulation in his targeted business sectors. Jonathan’s extensive background in the Defense industry includes work at General Dynamics – Electric Boat, Foster-Miller and as a staff scientist with the US Army’s High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC), where he was stationed at the US Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick MA. In his short tenure with SIMULIA, Jonathan has already met with a dozen key customers and prospects in 3-countries, working with their existing workflows and promoting our current capabilities and best practices. Jonathan was awarded his Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from Brown University in 2000 and is a registered Professional Engineer.
John I. Cofer, IV (Jack), Industry Lead – Turbomachinery, SIMULIA
Jack leads SIMULIA's technical marketing efforts targeting the turbomachinery industry, covering aerospace, automotive, industrial, and power generation applications of all forms of turbomachines. With 35 years of experience in the turbomachinery industry, he helps turbomachinery equipment manufacturers around the world improve their products and business performance using SIMULIA’s Abaqus Unified FEA and multiphysics solutions and Isight/Fiper process integration and design optimization technology. Jack joined SIMULIA in 2008 as a result of the acquisition of Engineous Software, Inc. where Jack was Director, Turbomachinery & Power Generation, for nearly ten years. For three years prior to joining Engineous, Jack was Manager of Fluid Mechanics Engineering and then Manager of Research & Development at Demag Delaval Turbomachinery Corporation in Trenton, NJ, and before that he spent 22 years as a design engineer and steam turbine aerodynamics manager at GE Power Systems in Lynn and Fitchburg, MA, and Schenectady, NY. In these positions he led efforts to develop new advanced technology for the design and optimization of centrifugal compressors and steam turbines for commercial and marine applications. Jack holds a B.S. from the University of Virginia, an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and an M.E. from Northeastern University.
Zhen-zhong Du, Principal Development Engineer and Technology Leader – R&D, SIMULIA
Zhen-zhong Du is currently a principal development engineer and technology leader in R&D organization in SIMULIA. He was born and raised in China. He graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1985 with a B.Sc. in Structural Mechanics. He then moved to Scotland to attend the University of Glasgow under Professor John Hancock. After obtaining his PhD in Fracture Mechanics in 1989, Zhen-zhong then worked at Cambridge University, England and at the University of California, Santa Barbara Campus, on constitutive modeling for ceramic powder consolidations, high-temperature and high-performance composite materials and thin film growth. Zhen-zhong joined SIMULIA in 1996 and has been working on a number of key customer engagement projects. Currently, he is leading multi-years development efforts on implementing the XFEM technology in Abaqus.
Kyle Indermuehle, Industry Lead – Aerospace, SIMULIA
Kyle Indermuehle is the Aerospace Lead at SIMULIA focusing on the aerospace industry and composites. In this role, Kyle is responsible for driving the strategy and product development efforts for Aerospace customer needs. Prior to his role at SIMULIA, Kyle worked on a variety of aerospace programs including the Pratt & Whitney RL10B-2 rocket engine, analysis and testing of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), and multiple satellite programs. Kyle received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University and his M.S. in Structural Engineering from University of California, San Diego.
Mahesh Kailasam, Industry Lead – Energy, SIMULIA
Mahesh has worked with SIMULIA since 1998 in various capacities within Customer Services, Development, Product Management, and Strategy, including several years as the Product Manager of Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit. Mahesh is currently responsible for developing and directing SIMULIA strategy for the Energy Industry, which includes Oil & Gas, Nuclear, Wind, Solar, and other emerging energy sectors. In this role he is charged with developing solution roadmaps for SIMULIA products, identifying alliances, and exploring other opportunities to help grow SIMULIA business in the Energy industry. He is also responsible for Technical Marketing activities to increase visibility and penetration of SIMULIA solutions in this industry. He has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Paul Lalor, Strategic Product Planning, SIMULIA
Paul is a manager within SIMULIA’s Product Management group responsible for setting the strategic direction of SIMULIA’s product portfolio. He spent 12 years with ABAQUS, Inc (formerly HKS) serving in a variety of capacities, including establishing the local Detroit office for ABAQUS. Paul then spent 6 years with PTC working in the PLM space before joining SIMULIA in 2006. He has a BS and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign.
Subham Sett, Industry Lead – Life Sciences, SIMULIA
Since joining SIMULIA in 2003, Subham has been involved in various capacities within SIMULIA’s customer services and marketing teams. He has extensive experience in the area of multiphysics simulation, including fluid structure interaction and MEMS. He is responsible for developing and promoting our simulation strategy for the Medical Device industry. Prior to joining SIMULIA, he was involved in MEMS design at Coventor Inc. He holds several patents in this area and earned an M.S. from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a B.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
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