Update View Factor. Now, when you are performing a Coupled Field Static or a Coupled Field Transient analysis that specifies structural and thermal physics, the Advanced category of the Analysis Settings object includes a new property: Update View Factor. For each Radiation loading condition included in the analysis that has the Correlation property set to Surface to Surface, the application updates the view factors at the specified interval. The use of this property requires that you specify large deflection and at least one Radiation load.

Importing Loads from Maxwell. You can now import Surface Force Density and Body Force Density loading conditions from the Maxwell application to downstream Coupled Field analyses.

Imported Body Temperatures. You can now import temperatures from upstream Coupled Field Static/Coupled Field Transient analyses into downstream Static Structural/Transient Structural analyses.

Element Definition for Piezoelectric Coupling. For Coupled Field analyses defined with piezoelectric coupling, the lower-order mesh now uses the element SOLID225 instead of element SOLID226 (high-order) with the mid-side nodes dropped.

Normal Stiffness in Coupled Field Analyses. For electrostatic-structural Coupled Field Static and Coupled Field Transient analyses that include contact, you can now specify the Program Controlled setting for the Normal Stiffness property.