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4.2.4

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Benchmark cases

As a training exercise and to get deeper understanding of the software tools and functionalities, there are several PAM-CRASH tutorials from Anthony Pickett available online,
[75].

4.2.5

PAM-CRASH pre- and post-processing software

Part of the Virtual-Performance software package, PAM-CRASH is a FEM solver code and
it only performs the explicit or implicit analysis. Therefore, there are some pre-processing
software that allow the user to build a FE model in PAM-CRASH code. Furthermore, a postprocessor software capable of reading PAM-CRASH output files to access results from FEA
is required. In the following sections the pre- and post-processing software used during the
dynamic behaviour analyses performed in this thesis are presented.
ANSA
ANSA was used for handling CAD data and finit element mesh generation.
Visual Crash-PAM
For definition of model entities (loading, boundary conditions, etc.) and material properties, the Visual Crash-PAM software was used.
Visual Viewer
Visual Viewer was used for visualisation of the analyses results.