Abaqus/CAE

(Complete Abaqus Environment) is an integrated software platform for Finite Element Analysis (FEA), providing a single, user-friendly interface for model creation, analysis setup, job management, and results visualization (pre-processing and post-processing) for Abaqus simulations

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

2D 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

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
Electromagnetic 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
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
Electromagnetic 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
Electromagnetic 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
- Curvature-based refinement
- Minimum element size
Edge seed
- Uniform
- Biased
- By size
- By number

Structured Meshing

1D
2D regions
3D solid regions

Surface Meshing

Automatic quadrilateral meshing
- Medial axis
- Advancing front
Automatic triangular meshing
Mapped meshing

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 the stack direction
- Collapse/split edge
- Swap diagonal
- Split/combine elements
- Renumber
- Merge/subdivide layers
Offset (create shell/solid layers)
Automatic collapse of silver 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

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