Data Sheet

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Abaqus/CAE 6.10
Geometry Geometry Import/Export Merge/Cut Tools
• CAD Associative Interfaces • Geometric parts
Geometry Creation Tools
(add-on modules) • Merge orphan mesh
• Solid features
-- CATIA V5
-- Extrude
-- SolidWorks Sets and Surfaces
-- Loft
-- Pro/ENGINEER • Geometric sets containing vertices,
-- Revolve
◦◦ CAD feature parameter update edges, faces, skins, or cells
-- Sweep
• CAD geometry translators • Orphan mesh sets containing nodes or
-- Draft, twist, and pitch
(add-on modules) elements
-- Fillet/chamfer
-- CATIA V4 • Native mesh sets and surfaces
• Cut features
-- I-deas NX • Surface regions
-- Extrude
-- Parasolid • Merge sets/surfaces
-- Loft
• Assembly import
-- Revolve
• Neutral format import
-- Sweep Model Display
-- SAT, IGES, STEP, or VDA
-- Circular hole • Display groups
• Import of parts from Abaqus input (.inp)
• Shell features • Selection tools
files or output database (.odb) files
-- Planar surface • Pick filters
• Geometry export
-- Extrude • Translucency control
-- SAT, IGES, STEP, or VDA
-- Loft • View cuts
-- Revolve
-- Sweep Model Import/Export Color Coding
-- Fillet/chamfer • Model database (.cae) files • Display model geometry and mesh
• Wire features • Models from Abaqus input (.inp) files elements in configurable colors
-- Planar • Nastran bulk data files • Color by attribute
-- Poly line • Ansys input file import
-- Spline
-- Fillet Geometry Edit Tools Properties
• Datum geometry • Automated repair during import Material Models
• Partitioning tools • Stitch edges • General
-- Edge • Repair small/invalid edges • Elasticity
-- Face • Merge edges • Electrical properties
-- Cell • Remove redundant entities • Mass diffusion
• Remove wire edges • Plasticity
2-D Sketcher • Remove/cover/replace faces • Pore fluid properties
• Point • Repair small faces/slivers/face normals • Thermal properties
• Line • Offset faces • Gasket
• Circle • Extend faces • Acoustic medium
• Rectangle • Blend faces • Damage initiation criteria and evolution
• Arc • Solid from shell • Brittle cracking
• Fillet • Convert to analytical • Equation of state (EOS) materials
• Spline • Convert to precise • User materials
• Ellipse • Hyperelastic/viscoelastic material
Midsurfacing evaluation
• Assign region
Sketch Tools and Options • Offset/extend/blend faces
• Constraints Materials Management
(geometry edit tools) • User libraries
• Parameters • Assign thickness and offset
• Translate/rotate/mirror/scale
• Trim/extend/break/merge Sections
• Project edges
Assembly • Solid
• Offset entities Instance Tools -- Homogeneous
• Linear/radial pattern • Create/suppress/resume/delete -- Composite
• Dimensioning • Linear/radial pattern -- Eulerian
• Construction geometry • Translate/rotate -- Generalized plane strain
• Sketch origin placement • Replace • Shell
• Sketch cleanup -- Homogeneous
• Sketch import/export -- Composite
-- Membrane
-- Surface (rebar layers)
-- Shell offset
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• Beam • Acoustic analysis Contact Properties
-- Beam • Coupled problems • Mechanical
-- Truss -- Thermo-mechanical -- Normal
-- Other -- Thermo-electrical -- Tangent
-- Gasket -- Piezoelectric -- Damping
-- Cohesive -- Pore fluid flow-mechanical -- Clearance-dependent
• Gasket -- Thermo-mechanical mass diffusion -- Surface-based cohesive contact and
• Beam section profiles -- Shock and acoustic-structural damage
-- Profile library • Cosimulation • Thermal
-- Arbitrary -- Abaqus/Standard to Abaqus/Explicit -- Conductance
-- Generalized cosimulation -- Heat generation
• Fluid section -- Abaqus/CFD to Abaqus/Standard or -- Boundary radiation
• Beam profile and Abaqus/Explicit • Film coefficient
shell thickness rendering ◦◦ Fluid structure interaction (FSI)
◦◦ Conjugate heat transfer (CHT)
Interactions
Composites • Flow analysis (incompressible)
• Cyclic symmetry
• Ply layup definition and management -- Laminar and turbulent
• Cavity/surface radiation
• Layer orientation and thickness • Surface/concentrated film condition
distributions Linear Perturbation Analyses • Elastic foundations
• Ply stack plots • Static stress/displacement analysis • Acoustic impedance
• Classic laminate theory -- Linear static stress/displacement analysis • Actuator/sensor
• Nonlinear progressive damage -- Eigenvalue buckling estimates • XFEM crack growth
and failure • Dynamic stress/displacement analysis • Model change
• Ply-based output request -- Natural frequency extraction • Pressure penetration
-- Complex eigenvalue extraction (planar/axisymmetric)
Orientations -- Transient response via modal • Abaqus/Standard-Abaqus/Explicit
• Beam section superposition co-simulation boundary
• Material -- Steady-state response to harmonic • Fluid-Structure co-simulation boundary
• Rebar loading
• Shell normal -- Response spectrum analysis
-- Random response analysis Constraints
• Surface- and direction-based
• Tied surfaces
• Equations
Special Engineering Features Multi-Step Setup • Display body
• Fasteners • Step suppression
• Rigid and isothermal bodies
-- Point-based • Coupling
-- Discrete Analysis Controls • Multi-point constraints
-- Points import and definition • General solution controls • Shell-to-solid coupling
-- Projection, offset, and patterning tools • Solver controls • Embedded regions
• Skins and stringers • Adaptive mesh domain
• Inertia • Adaptive mesh controls
-- Point mass/inertia Connectors
-- Nonstructural mass • Basic
Output Requests -- Translational
-- Heat capacitance • Field output
• Springs/dashpots -- Rotational
• History output
• Assembled/complex
• Integrated output sections
Queries • Connector builder to easily define
• Contact status output
• Point/node/distance/angle connectors
• Restart, diagnostic, and monitor output
• Geometry diagnostics • Sensors
• Section assignment Boundary Conditions
• Nodal
Constraints and Interactions • Velocity
Analysis Features
Contact • Acceleration
General, Linear, and Nonlinear Analyses • Automatic contact detection and setup • Velocity/angular velocity
• Static stress/displacement analysis • General contact (Abaqus/Standard and • Submodel
• Viscoelastic/viscoplastic response Abaqus/Explicit) • Pore pressure
• Dynamic stress/displacement analysis • Surface-to-surface contact • Electric potential
• Heat transfer analysis • Self-contact • Temperatures
(transient and steady-state) • Contact deactivation/reactivation • Fluid inlet/outlet
• Mass diffusion analysis • Fluid wall condition
(transient and steady-state) • Spatially varying boundary conditions
• Direct cyclic • Eulerian (inflow/outflow/motion)
-- Low-cycle fatigue
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Predefined fields Surface Meshing Element Library
• Velocity/Temperature/Hardening • Automatic quadrilateral meshing • Beam
• Initial state (from previous analysis) -- Medial axis • Truss
• Material assignment -- Advancing front • Connector
• Fluid density/thermal energy/ • Automatic triangular meshing • Shell
turbulence/velocity • Mapped meshing • Membrane
• Cohesive
Loads Solid Meshing • Continuum shell
• Mechanical • Fully automatic tetrahedral meshing • Continuum
• Bolt load • Fully automatic swept meshing • Elbow
• Thermal -- Medial axis • Gasket
• Acoustic • Bottom-up hexahedral meshing • Pipe
• Fluid • Eulerian
• Electrical Virtual Topology • Cylindrical
• Mass diffusion • Combine faces/edges • Fluid
• Fields • Automatic creation/restore tools
• Multiple load cases
• Spatially varying loads
Job Management
Element Quality • Submission
• Statistical and analysis checks • Parallel computing options
Analytical and Discrete Fields • Stable time increment • Restart
• Analytical fields for prescribed • Maximum allowable frequency • Monitor and view job files
conditions • Mesh deviation computation • Co-execution
• Discrete fields for prescribed -- Abaqus/Standard to Abaqus/Explicit
conditions, orientations, offset, and -- Abaqus/CFD to Abaqus/Standard or
shell thicknesses Queries
• Mass and mesh Abaqus/Explicit
-- Volume fraction discrete field
• Stable time increment
• Maximum allowable frequency Visualization
Amplitude Curves
• Mesh stack orientation • Model plotting
• Tabular
• Mesh gap/intersections • Deformed, contour, vector/tensor, path,
• Equally-spaced
• Free/non-manifold edges extreme value, ply-stack, through
• Periodic
• Unmeshed regions thickness, tick mark, overlay, material
• Modulated
• Decay orientation, and X-Y plots
• Solution-dependent Mesh Edit • Loads display
• Smooth-step • Node • View manipulation, linked viewports, and
• Actuator -- Create camera options
• User -- Edit • Multiple viewports and view synchronization
-- Delete • Automatic color coding
-- Merge • View cuts
Fracture Mechanics
-- Adjust midside -- Planar/cylindrical/spherical
• Contour integral
-- Project -- Isosurface
• Extended finite element method (XFEM)
-- Renumber -- Resultant force/moment output
• Element -- Multiple cuts
Meshing -- Create • Beam profile and shell thickness display
Mesh Seeding -- Delete • Free-body cuts
• Global seed size -- Flip surface normal • Animations
-- Curvature-based refinement -- Orient stack direction -- Movie import/export and overlay
-- Minimum element size -- Collapse/split edge • Mirroring and patterning of symmetric
• Edge seed -- Swap diagonal models
-- Uniform -- Split/combine elements • Failed element removal
-- Biased -- Renumber • Stress linearization
-- By size • Offset (create shell/solid layers) • X-Y data operators and data filtering
-- By number • Automatic collapse of sliver edges • Tabular data reports
• Convert triangular elements to tetrahedral • Probe/query tools
Structured Meshing elements • Network connection to remote output
• 1-D • Refine 2-D planar meshes databases
• 2-D regions • Diagnostics visualization
• 3-D solid regions Adaptive Remeshing • Automatic report generation
• Automatic and manual
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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/x86-32
• Windows/x86-64
• Linux/x86-64

Product Support
• Maintenance and support
• Quality Monitoring Service
• Installation
• Training and users’ meetings

Related Products
CAD Associative Interfaces and
Geometry Translators
• CAD Associative interfaces for CATIA V5,
SolidWorks, and Pro/ENGINEER
-- Enables synchronization of CAD and
CAE assemblies and seamless updates
• Geometry translators for CATIA V4,
I-deas NX, and Parasolid

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