DatapointLabs will be featured in

• LS-DYNA Conference, Austria 
  Thursday May 14 
  4:40- 5:00pm Room: Trakl-Saal 
  "Selecting Material Models for the Simulation of Foams 
  in LS-DYNA"
  Brian Croop and Hubert Lobo 
  
  In our current work, we seek to lay down a framework to help us understand the different behavioral classes of foams. Following a methodology that we previously applied to plastics, we propose the right LS-DYNA material models that best capture these behaviors.more
   
• SIMULIA Customer Conference, UK
  Tuesday May 19th 
  1:45- 2:15pm Room: Queen's Vault 
  "Material Modeling of Soft Material for Non-linear NVH
  Applications in Abaqus" 
  Hubert Lobo
  
  Abaqus’ non-linear NVH capability permits the capture of material behavior of rubber seals and bushings, plastic parts and foam inserts which have a significant influence on the simulation. In this presentation, we discuss material calibration procedures for this application. more
   
• SIMULIA Customer Conference, UK
  Tuesday May 19th
  3:45- 4:15pm Room: Queen's Vault 
  "Characterization of Damage in Hyperelastic Materials Using Standard Test Methods" 
  *Arun Nair, **Hubert Lobo, *Anita Bestelmeyer
  *Becton Dickinson & Company and **DatapointLabs 
  
  Well established physical test methods and computational procedures exist for the characterization of the material behavior in tension, compression, shear volumetric response, tear strength etc. However, effective modeling of the fracture behavior of hyperelastic materials using finite element techniques is very challenging. In this paper, we make an attempt to demonstrate the use of such standard test methods and the applicability of such test data for performing finite element analyses of complex nonlinear problems using Abaqus. 
• NAFEMS, Greece
  Tuesday June 16th
  Session 1A Room: Materials 1
  "A Robust Method to Calibrate Crash Materials"
  Hubert Lobo
  
  High strain rate material modeling for use in crash and drop testing has been plagued by a number of problems. These include poor quality data, material models unsuited to polymer behavior, and unclear material model calibration guidelines, to name just a few. This has rendered the modeling of polymers to be a risky proposition with a highly variable success rate. In previous work, 
  we tackled each of the above problems individually. more
   

• 7th European LS-DYNA Conference
  May 14-15, 2009, Salzburg, Austria
• SIMULIA Customer Conference
  May 18-21, 2009, London, England
• NAFEMS World Congress 
  June 16-19, 2009 Crete, Greece