The processing of linear hex elements of the uncracked meshing during remeshing is improved. In cases where the external boundary of the remesh region contains non-planar quad faces derived from skewed linear hex elements, the remeshed region better matches the faces of the uncracked mesh than in previous releases. Processing of planar quad faces of linear hex elements, faces of parabolic hex elements and faces of linear or parabolic tet elements in the uncracked mesh are not affected by this change.

The reporting of elapsed time in the material curve fitting utility is changed to be initialised when calculations begin instead of when the program starts. The fitting process itself is not changed.

Support is added for the Ansys INISTATE,READ option with parameter DOBJ. This allows initial stress to be converted to crack face tractions by Ansys, thus allowing residual stress to be included in the cracked mesh analysis. This is an initial "preview" feature in the 9.5-1 update 2 release which has not yet been documented in the Interface To Ansys Manual and which will be formally included in a later update. Please request further details by email if this is a feature of interest.

In addition, this update addresses four items classified as bugs: