ADINA CONNECT Edition V2023 | 759.2 mb
ADINA R & D Inc., a part Bentley Systems, team is pleased to announce the availability of ADINA 2023 Minor Update 1 (23.00.01.16) is powerful finite element software, built to help you solve the most difficult nonlinear problems involving geometric, material, and load nonlinearities; large deformations; and contact conditions.

What's new in ADINA 2023 Minor Update 1 (23.00.01.16) - Release Date: January 2024
We are pleased to announce Minor Update 1 for ADINA 2023. This is version 23.00.01.16 for Windows, and a bug-fix release only.

Product Version Naming Convention
Product versioning for Bentley Systems is now based on the calendar year of the major release according to software industry practice. This is the first ADINA Minor release following the 2023 version, thus version 23.00.01.16.
Changes in Licensing
There have been no changes in licensing since the last version. ADINA is still licensed in 3 tiers, ADINA, ADINA Advanced and ADINA Ultimate with an optional ADINA Parasolid Modeler interface that works with any tier.

Corrections and Enhancements

AUI
1299001: AUI-Plot could not load porthole file when RESULTS=OP2+PORT was specified in the MASTER command due to duplicated results. The error was “Error reading ADINA porthole file.”
1288286: A Core dump error could occur in AUI when using Parasolid Modeler to define Sewn Bodies. This only occurred with a specific series of steps selecting bodies from table after receiving a message about Missing Geometry.
1269938: In AUI Post-Processing, the Reaction plot of distributed contact traction should have a maximum value in red. Instead, it was sometimes orange. Furthermore, the shape of the distributed contact traction should be trapezoidal in shape for non-uniform traction. When using Fast Graphics this would display in flat steps. This could also affect plotted non-uniform beam loads, but only in Fast Graphics mode.
1213074: With some graphics adapters, the background color would not immediately change based on user input.
1327616: In AUI the solution time indicated for a MESHPLOT may have the wrong solution time. This happened when the current time step size was large, but the current solution time required many significant digits to display properly.
Structures
1321596: In ADINA Structures, when initial velocity was defined in the model, the initial kinetic energy result was not correct, it was double the correct value.
CFD
1304952: For large CFD and/or FSI problems, stack overflow may have occurred. This situation cannot be predicted, since it depends on the specific problem and the system. When encountered, the process stops without solution, but did not affect the solution quality otherwise.
Femap Transor
1308917: For a Femap model with 2D contact surfaces, Transor for Femap will translate it into a Nastran file with BEDGE commands, and AUI will create the corresponding element edge sets when importing the Nastran file. However, if the Femap model also had thermal loadings (heat flux, convection, radiation, and heat generation) or FSI boundaries applied to the edges of 2D solid elements, additional element edge set IDs may overlap with those from the 2D contact surfaces causing edge loads to be applied incorrectly.
Available Documentation
No changes were made to the other ADINA documentation for this version except that the pdf files now allow information to be copied to the clipboard.

ADINA 2023 Release Notes

Product Version Naming Convention
Product versioning for Bentley Systems is now based on the calendar year of the major release according to software industry practice. This is the first ADINA release following the new standard. The version number is v23.00.00.306, skipping versions 10 through 22 altogether.

Changes in Licensing
There are no changes in licensing since version 9.9.0. The following information is restated for those upgrading from older versions, 9.8.2 and prior. The ADINA User Interface and various solvers are now licensed through the Bentley Subscription Entitlement Service (SES), one of several CONNECT services common to all Bentley desktop applications. For details on the process refer to Understanding the Subscription Entitlement Service (SES) Workflow. Each Windows user needs to be registered and must sign in to the CONNECTION Client in order to use ADINA.

ADINA is now licensed in three tiers or editions.
ADINA Standard Edition authorizes use of the ADINA User Interface (ADINA AUI) and ADINA Structures. It also includes the ADINA-M Open CASCADE interface unless the ADINA Parasolid modeler option below is selected.
ADINA Advanced includes all standard edition functionality as well as the ADINA Thermal (ADINA-T) and ADINA Thermo-Mechanical Coupling (ADAINA-TMC) solutions.
ADINA Ultimate includes all ADINA solver functionality. This includes, but is not limited to, ADINA Computational Fluid Dynamics (ADINA CFD), ADINA Fluid-Structure Interaction (ADINA FSI), ADINA Electromagnetics (ADINA EM) and other multi-physics coupling such as and ADINA FSA/EM.
ADINA Parasolid Modeler is an optional Parasolid modeling module for advanced solid modeling capabilities. This requires a separate license.

The other CAD Interfaces are free with a current Bentley Systems subscription. These interfaces are available to all users that subscribe to a Bentley maintenance program. See here for more information.

All of the ADINA Editions and interfaces are installed with the single ADINA installer. This version also supports Linux.

Security Risk Advisory
Bentley is committed to continuously investigating and rectifying security vulnerabilities affecting its products and services. Regular checks and security fixes are a part of our releases to ensure better resilience. In this version updat