Simulia Abaqus Cae Datasheet

2015-10-19

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ABAQUS/CAE 6.14 DATA SHEET

GEOMETRY

Geometry Creation Tools

• Solid features

-Extrude

-Loft

-Revolve

-Sweep

-Draft, twist, and pitch

-Fillet/chamfer

• Cut features

-Extrude

-Loft

-Revolve

-Sweep

-Circular hole

• Shell features

-Planar surface

-Extrude

-Loft

-Revolve

-Sweep

-Fillet/chamfer

• Wire features

-Planar

-Poly line

-Spline

-Fillet

-From edge

• Mirror feature

• Datum geometry

• Partitioning tools

-Edge

-Face

-Cell

2-D Sketcher

• Point

• Line

• Circle

• Rectangle

• Arc

• Fillet

• Spline

• Ellipse

Sketch Tools and Options

• Constraints

• Parameters

• Translate/rotate/mirror/

scale

• Trim/extend/break/merge

• Project edges

• Offset entities

• Linear/radial pattern

• Dimensioning

• Construction geometry

• Sketch origin placement

• Sketch cleanup

• Sketch import/export

Geometry Import/Export

• CAD Associative Interfaces

(add-on modules)

-CATIA V6

-CATIA V5

-SolidWorks

-Pro/ENGINEER

◦CAD feature parameter

update

• CAD geometry translators

(add-on modules)

-CATIA V4

-I-deas NX

-Parasolid

• Assembly import

• Neutral format import

-SAT, IGES, STEP, or VDA

• Import of parts from

Abaqus ﬁles

-Input (.inp)

-Output database (.odb)

-Linear dynamics

(substructure) data (.sim)

• Geometry export

-SAT, IGES, STEP, or VDA

Model Import/Export

• Model database (.cae) ﬁles

• Models from Abaqus input

(.inp) ﬁles

• Nastran bulk data ﬁles

• Ansys input ﬁle import

• Wavefront (.obj) export

Geometry Edit Tools

• Automated repair

during import

• Stitch edges

• Repair small/invalid edges

• Merge edges

• Remove redundant entities

• Remove wire edges

• Remove/cover/replace

faces

• Repair small faces/slivers/

face normals

• Offset faces

• Extend faces

• Blend faces

• Solid from shell

• Convert to analytical

• Convert to precise

• Faces from element faces

Midsurfacing

• Offset/extend/blend faces

(geometry edit tools)

• Assign thickness and offset

ASSEMBLY

Instance Tools

• Create/suppress/resume/

delete

• Linear/radial pattern

• Translate/rotate

• Replace

• Model instancing

Merge/Cut Tools

• Geometric parts

• Merge orphan mesh

• Merge geometric and

orphan mesh parts

Sets and Surfaces

• Geometric sets containing

vertices, edges, faces, skins,

or cells

• Orphan mesh sets containing

nodes or elements

• Native mesh sets and surfaces

• Surface regions

• Merge sets/surfaces

◦Union

◦Intersection

◦Difference

Model Display

• Display groups

• Selection tools

• Pick ﬁlters

• Translucency control

• View cuts

• View center setting

Color Coding

• Display model geometry

and mesh elements in

conﬁgurable colors

• Color by attribute

PROPERTIES

Material Models

• General

• Elasticity

• Electrical properties

• Mass diffusion

• Magnetic properties

• Plasticity

• Eletromagnetic properties

• Pore ﬂuid properties

• Thermal properties

• Gasket

• Acoustic medium

• Damage initiation criteria

and evolution

• Brittle cracking

• Equation of state (EOS)

materials

• User materials

• Hyperelastic/viscoelastic

material evaluation

• Anisotropic hyperelasticity

Materials Management

and Calibration

• User libraries

• Import/process test data and

deﬁne calibration behaviors

Sections

• Solid

-Homogeneous

-Composite

-Eulerian

-Generalized plane strain

• Shell

-Homogeneous

-Composite

-Membrane

-Surface (rebar layers)

-Shell offset

• Beam

-Beam

-Truss

-Other

-Gasket

-Cohesive

• Gasket

• Beam section proﬁles

-Proﬁle library

-Arbitrary

-Generalized

-Tapered

• Fluid section

• Beam proﬁle and

shell thickness rendering

• Electromagnetic, solid

section

Composites

• Ply layup deﬁnition and

management

• Layer orientation and

thickness distributions

• Ply stack plots

• Classic laminate theory

• Nonlinear progressive

damage and failure

• Ply-based output request

Orientations

• Beam section

• Material

• Rebar

• Shell normal

• Surface- and

direction-based

Special Engineering

Features

• Fasteners

-Point-based

-Discrete

-Assembled

-Points import and

deﬁnition

-Projection, offset,

and patterning tools

• Skins and stringers

• Inertia

-Point mass/inertia

-Nonstructural mass

-Heat capacitance

• Springs/dashpots

Queries

• Point/node/distance/angle

• Geometry diagnostics

• Section assignment

ANALYSIS FEATURES

General, Linear, and

Nonlinear Analyses

• Static stress/displacement

analysis

• Viscoelastic/viscoplastic

response

• Dynamic stress/

displacement analysis

• Heat transfer analysis

(transient and steady-state)

• Mass diffusion analysis

(transient and steady-state)

• Direct cyclic

-Low-cycle fatigue

• Acoustic analysis

• Coupled problems

-Thermo-mechanical

-Thermo-electrical

-Piezoelectric

-Coupled thermal-electrical-

structural

-Pore ﬂuid ﬂow-mechanical

-Thermo-mechanical mass

diffusion

-Shock and acoustic

structural

• Cosimulation

-Abaqus/Standard to

Abaqus/Explicit

cosimulation

-Abaqus/CFD to Abaqus/

Standard or Abaqus/Explicit

◦Fluid structure interaction

(FSI)

◦Conjugate heat transfer

(CHT)

• Flow analysis

(incompressible)

-Laminar and turbulent

Linear Perturbation

Analyses

• Static stress/displacement

analysis

-Linear static stress/

displacement analysis

-Eigenvalue buckling

estimates

• Dynamic stress/displacement

analysis

-Natural frequency extraction

-Complex eigenvalue

extraction

-Transient response via

modal superposition

-Steady-state response to

harmonic loading

-Response spectrum analysis

-Random response analysis

• Substructure Generation

• Electromagnetic, time

harmonic

Multi-Step Setup

• Step suppression

Analysis Controls

• General solution controls

• Solver controls

• Adaptive mesh domain

• Adaptive mesh controls

Output Requests

• Field output

• History output

• Integrated output sections

• Contact status output

• Restart, diagnostic, and

monitor output

• Sensors

CONSTRAINTS AND

INTERACTIONS

Contact

• Automatic contact detection

and setup

• General contact (Abaqus/

Standard and Abaqus/

Explicit)

• Surface-to-surface contact

• Self-contact

• Contact deactivation/

reactivation

Contact Properties

• Mechanical

-Normal

-Tangent

-Damping

-Clearance-dependent

-Surface-based cohesive

contact and damage

-VCCT for Abaqus/

Standard

• Thermal

-Conductance

-Heat generation

-Boundary radiation

• Film coefﬁcient

Interactions

• Cyclic symmetry

• Cavity/surface radiation

• Surface/concentrated ﬁlm

condition

• Elastic foundations

• Acoustic impedance

• Actuator/sensor

• XFEM crack growth

• Model change

• Pressure penetration

• Abaqus/Standard-Abaqus/

Explicit co-simulation

boundary

• Fluid-Structure

co-simulation boundary

• Fluid cavity

Constraints

• Tied surfaces

• Equations

• Display body

• Rigid and isothermal

bodies

• Coupling

• Multi-point constraints

• Shell-to-solid coupling

• Embedded regions

Connectors

• Basic

-Translational

-Rotational

• Assembled/complex

• Connector and coincident

builder

Boundary Conditions

• Nodal

• Velocity

• Acceleration

• Velocity/angular velocity

• Submodel

• Pore pressure

• Electric potential

• Temperatures

• Fluid inlet/outlet

• Fluid wall condition

• Spatially varying boundary

conditions

• Eulerian (inﬂow/outﬂow/

motion)

• Magnetic

• Eletromagnetic loads

Predeﬁned ﬁelds

• Velocity/Temperature/

Hardening

• Initial state (from previous

analysis)

• Material assignment

• Fluid density/thermal

energy/turbulence/velocity

• Initial stress

• Geostatic stress/void ratio/

saturation/pore pressure

Loads

• Mechanical

• Bolt load

• Thermal

• Acoustic

• Fluid

• Electrical

• Mass diffusion

• Fields

• Multiple load cases

• Spatially varying loads

• Eletromagnetic properties

Analytical and Discrete

Fields

• Analytical ﬁelds for

prescribed conditions

• Mapped ﬁelds

• Discrete ﬁelds for

prescribed conditions,

orientations, offset, and

shell thicknesses

-Volume fraction discrete

ﬁeld

Amplitude Curves

• Tabular

• Equally-spaced

• Periodic

• Modulated

• Decay

• Solution-dependent

• Smooth-step

• Actuator

• User

Fracture Mechanics

• Contour integral

• Extended ﬁnite element

method (XFEM)

• Seams and cracks

MESHING

Mesh Seeding

• Global seed size

ABAQUS/CAE 6.14 DATA SHEET

-Curvature-based

reﬁnement

-Minimum element size

• Edge seed

-Uniform

-Biased

-By size

-By number

Structured Meshing

• 1-D

• 2-D regions

• 3-D solid regions

Surface Meshing

• Automatic quadrilateral

meshing Medial axis

-Advancing front

• Automatic triangular

meshing

• Mapped meshing

• Mesh pattern copying

Solid Meshing

• Fully automatic tetrahedral

meshing

• Fully automatic swept

meshing

-Medial axis

• Bottom-up hexahedral

meshing

• Boundary layer meshing

Virtual Topology

• Combine faces/edges

• Automatic creation/restore

tools

Element Quality

• Statistical and analysis

checks

• Stable time increment

• Maximum allowable

frequency

• Mesh deviation

computation

Queries

• Mass and mesh

• Stable time increment

• Maximum allowable

frequency

• Mesh stack orientation

• Mesh gap/intersections

• Free/non-manifold edges

• Unmeshed regions

Mesh Edit

• Node

-Create

-Edit

-Drag

-Delete

-Merge

-Adjust midside

-Project

-Renumber

• Element

-Create

-Delete

-Flip surface normal

-Orient stack direction

-Collapse/split edge

-Swap diagonal

-Split/combine elements

-Renumber

-Merge/subdivide layers

• Offset (create shell/solid

layers)

• Automatic collapse of

sliver edges

• Convert triangular

elements to tetrahedral

elements

• Reﬁne 2-D planar meshes

Adaptive Remeshing

• Automatic and manual

Element Library

• Beam

• Truss

• Connector

• Shell

• Membrane

• Cohesive

• Continuum shell

• Continuum

• Elbow

• Gasket

• Pipe

• Eulerian

• Cylindrical

• Fluid

• Electromagnetic

JOB MANAGEMENT

• Submission

• Parallel computing options

• Restart

• Monitor and view job ﬁles

• Co-execution

-Abaqus/Standard to

Abaqus/Explicit

-Abaqus/CFD to Abaqus/

Standard or Abaqus/

Explicit

VISUALIZATION OF

MODEL AND OUTPUT

DATA

• Model plotting

• Model and results data

• Deformed, contour,

vector/tensor, path,

extreme value, ply-stack,

through thickness, tick

mark, overlay, material

orientation, and X-Y plots

• Loads display

• View manipulation, linked

viewports, view center

setting and camera options

• Multiple viewports and

view synchronization

• Automatic color coding

• View cuts

-Planar/cylindrical/

spherical

-Isosurface

-Resultant force/moment

output

-Multiple cuts

-Free bodies at

all view cuts

• Beam proﬁle and shell

thickness display

• Results display on beam

sections

• Free-body cuts

• Nodal force plot, history

plot and multiple free-body

display

• Animations

-Movie import/export

and overlay

• Mirroring and patterning of

symmetric models

• Failed element removal

• Stress linearization

• Streamlines

• X-Y data operators and

data ﬁltering

• Tabular data reports

• Probe/query tools and

annotations

• Network connection to

remote output databases

• Diagnostics and constraints

visualization

• Automatic report

generation

• Abaqus/Aqua gravity wave

visualization

• DEM visualization

PROCESS AUTOMATION

• Python scripting

• GUI toolkit

• Macro manager

• Plug-ins architecture

• Python Development

Environment (PDE)

PLUG-INS

• Examples

• Interactive plug-in GUI

builder (RSG)

• Script upgrade

• Excel utilities

• NVH postprocessing

• Adaptivity plotter

• ODB combine tool

• STL import/export

PRINTING AND OUTPUT

• PS/EPS/PNG/TIFF/SVG

• 3D XML/VRML

• Hardcopy

DOCUMENTATION AND

ONLINE HELP

• User’s Manual

• Getting Started Manual

• Release Notes

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS

• Windows/x86-64

• Linux/x86-64

PRODUCT SUPPORT

• Maintenance and support

• Quality Monitoring Service

• Installation

• Training and users’

meetings

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