Abaqus/Standard

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Abaqus/Standard is a general-purpose finite-element solver that simulates true static and structural dynamic events. Its applications include thermal stress analysis, sealing evaluations, steady-state rolling simulation, fracture mechanics studies, heat-transfer modeling, acoustics, pore pressure, and more.
Abaqus/Standard has powerful linear dynamics capabilities, including the AMS EigenSolver, which efficiently identifies numerous natural frequencies for models with various degrees of freedom. It also has a curated library of elements accessible to users for its wide range of applications and an extensive library of material models ranging from linear elasticity to rate-dependent kinematic plasticity to continuum damage.
Users can customize and extend Abaqus/Standard by coding subroutines for material models, elements, loads, and boundary conditions. The Abaqus/CAE modeling environment supports Abaqus/Standard for all typical pre- and post-processing requirements.
Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit are designed to work cohesively, allowing you to couple the two solvers. You can continue a simulation that starts in Abaqus/Explicit, in Abaqus/Standard and conversely. The importing functionality allows users to apply Abaqus/Standard to those portions of the analysis well suited to an implicit solution technique. Alternatively, users can apply Abaqus/Explicit to those portions of the analysis where high-speed, nonlinear, transient response dominates the solution.
  • Nonlinear static and dynamic stress analysis
  • Linear dynamics, which include a highly efficient AMS EigenSolver
  • Heat transfer
  • Acoustics
  • Multi-physics procedures for
    • Thermal/structural simulations
    • Thermal/structural/electrical simulations
    • Battery simulations
  • Linear and quadratic solid elements for stress analysis
  • Structural elements: Shell elements, beam elements, truss elements, membrane elements
  • Elements for coupled simulations
    • Thermal/structural elements
    • Thermal/structural/electrical elements
    • Piezoelectric elements
    • Pore pressure elements
    • Thermal/electrochemical elements for the simulation of battery cell
  • Special elements for modeling
    • Gaskets
    • A wide range of kinematic behaviors
    • Spot welds
    • Adhesive connections
  • Linear elasticity and viscoelasticity
  • Nonlinear viscoelasticity
  • Isotropic and kinematic plasticity
  • Damage and fracture mechanics
  • Multiscale and Mean-Field Homogenization