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05/25/2026

What happens when phase transformations are ignored in welding simulations?
Residual stress and distortion predictions become unpredictable.

Last chance to sign up for our upcoming webinar. We’ll walk through how DANTE and Qustom Weld capture material transformations during welding to improve accuracy.

Join us Tomorrow May 26 at 10:00 AM EST.

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05/20/2026

Did you know that martensite does not form uniformly across a part during quenching?

Differences in section thickness, cooling rate, and surface chemistry can delay transformation in some regions, creating transient stress states that drive distortion or cracking.

05/13/2026

What happens when phase transformations are ignored in welding simulations?

Residual stress and distortion predictions become unpredictable.

In our upcoming webinar, we’ll walk through how DANTE and Qustom Weld capture material transformations during welding to improve accuracy.

Join us May 26 at 10:00 AM EST.

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05/06/2026

Part 3 of our DANTE + Ansys tutorial series is here.

This step-by-step video walks through how to simulate quench hardening stress in case carburized 1020 steel.

We cover topics such as:
• Stress simulation setup
• Model configuration and solver settings
• Distortion analysis

Watch the full tutorial: https://youtu.be/-B03hQ4emJM

04/29/2026

Join us for an upcoming webinar where we’ll explore how DANTE and Qustom Weld work together to model weld build-up, heating, and material behavior during the welding process.

May 26, 2026 at 10:00 AM EST
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04/22/2026

Designing Low Pressure Carburization (LPC) recipes by trial-and-error is expensive.

VCarb enables engineers to:
- Design boost/diffuse schedules for target case depth
- Predict carbon profiles based on alloy and geometry
- Adjust recipes virtually before running the furnace

The result: fewer iterations, shorter cycle development, and more consistent outcomes.

Learn about VCarb:

DANTE VCarb predicts and designs low pressure carburizing (LPC) recipes for accurate carbon profiles and controlled case depth.

04/15/2026

Press quenching can control distortion, but it can also introduce hidden crack risks.

In a DANTE study on AISI 52100 bearing rings, simulations revealed that:

Tensile stresses spike during martensite formation
Friction and sticking at the dies significantly increase crack risk
Process choices like quench rate can influence stress relief

Read Understanding Process Sensitivities in Press Quenching here:

Study of press quenching effects on AISI 52100 bearing rings, analyzing stress, distortion, and quench cracking with DANTE modeling.

04/08/2026

The transfer step is one of the most overlooked phases in steel heat treatment, yet it plays a critical role in distortion and residual stress development.

In our latest article with Thermal Processing, we take a closer look at how the transfer step can influence phase transformations, thermal gradients, and the hardness is steel components.

Read Capturing the Critical Transfer Step here:

04/01/2026

In Part 2 of our DANTE + Ansys tutorial series, we walk you through the next step and create a full quench hardening simulation for 1020 steel.

Learn how to define the thermal boundaries for quench hardening and run a complete quench simulation.

Watch Part 2:

03/18/2026

DANTE's 6.3.1 software update is now available and with it comes several new capabilities and quality of life changes.

What's new in the release:

-Nickel added to materials feature for thermal and stress models in ACT and Plugin.
-Thermal properties for steel are now optionally dependent on carbon and nitrogen content.
-Improvements to the primary creep model, now allowing for simultaneous primary and secondary creep.
-Fixed several bugs in the FEA, ACT, and Plugin.

These updates support more accurate materials modeling, phase transformation prediction, and heat treatment process simulation.

FEA with Ansys solver, distributed cpus were implemented (intel mpi installation (impi.dll) is required, which comes from Ansys installation package).