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What's New: Marc 2008 r1


  • Centrifugal and Coriolis loads with multiple axes
  • All distributed loads (thermal, electrical, diffusion etc) turned off if edge/face in contact
  • Table input for actuators
  • Ability to change Table data upon restart
  • Additional controls for printing spring results
  • Shape memory material enhancements
  • Composite mixture model
  • New and enhanced elements
  • Enhanced transverse shear for 3-d composite brick and solid shell
  • Improved large rotation for element type 75 in Total Lagrange formulation
  • Shell-to-shell edge/face contact
  • Friction support for beam to beam contact
  • Moment carrying glue support for shell to brick and beam to shell or brick
  • Shell edge-to-edge glue
  • Improvements to superelement creation
  • Contact performance enhancements
  • Improved Marc iterative solver (Type 2) when Lagrange multipliers are used
  • Generalized Alph-HHT dynamics
  • Mechanical and chemical wear mechanisms
  • Local adaptive meshing enhanced to support electrostatics, magnetostatics and diffusion
  • Curing enhanced to support new heat transfer membrane elements and shell elements