Abaqus

Abaqus

Abaqus

Product catalog summary
Industry Challenges
Manufacturers face challenges such as globalization, cost reductions, and shorter development cycles. To gain a competitive edge, they leverage realistic simulation to reduce dependency on physical testing, decrease part weight, and evaluate alternative materials during the design phase.
Abaqus Unified FEA Solution
SIMULIA offers a scalable suite of unified analysis products that enable collaboration and seamless data sharing. The Abaqus Unified FEA product suite provides solutions for routine and sophisticated engineering problems across various industrial applications, helping companies consolidate processes, reduce costs, and gain a competitive advantage.
Modeling and Visualization
Abaqus supports hybrid modeling, allowing users to work with geometry-based data and imported meshes. It offers a powerful modeling and visualization environment with customization capabilities and user-defined subroutines. Abaqus/CAE provides efficient pre- and post-processing for analysis needs, supporting functionalities like acoustics, damage, fracture, and failure.
Geometry and Meshing
Parts and assemblies can be created using a constraint-driven sketcher or imported from CAD systems. Abaqus/CAE offers a comprehensive meshing environment with sophisticated approaches to simplify and speed up mesh creation.
Contact and Specialized Techniques
Abaqus provides comprehensive contact modeling capabilities and specialized techniques like direct cyclic procedures and adaptive remeshing to ensure accuracy and efficiency in simulations.
Advanced Materials
The Abaqus product suite includes an extensive library of material models for simulating biological tissue and traditional engineering materials, addressing the need for lighter, more efficient products.
Advanced Analysis
Abaqus supports both linear and nonlinear analysis, with implicit and explicit solution technologies for various dynamic events. It is suitable for applications like automotive crashworthiness and consumer electronics drop testing.
High-Performance Computing
Abaqus employs distributed memory parallel direct solver technology and domain decomposition technology to reduce analysis turnaround time and boost productivity.
Multiphysics
Abaqus provides robust multiphysics capabilities, including thermal-stress, thermal-electrical, and fluid-structure interaction analysis, supporting complex industrial applications.
Visualization
Abaqus offers best-in-class visualization capabilities to interpret and communicate model data and analysis results, supporting large, complex models with various visualization options.
Case Studies
Applus IDIADA uses Abaqus to address vehicle squeaks and rattles, while Smith & Nephew employs it for knee implant design and development, showcasing Abaqus's ability to simulate complex interactions and improve product design.
Abaqus Advantages
Abaqus offers solutions for contact, fracture, and failure analysis, high-performance computing, model preparation, and results interpretation, with over 100 value-added solutions for various industry processes.
About Dassault Systèmes
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Catalog excerpts

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Abaqus Unified FEA Simulate Realistic Performance with Advanced Multiphysics Solutions Nonlinear Partner Solutions Abaqus Multiphysics

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Abaqus Unified FEA Industry Challenges In the race to deliver new and innovative products to market faster, manufacturers face many challenges, including globalization, cost reductions, and shorter development cycles. To gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace, manufacturers have started to leverage the robust capabilities of realistic simulation to lessen dependency on physical testing, reduce part weight, or evaluate the use of alternative materials during the product design phase to ensure optimum product performance. Abaqus Unified FEA Solution SIMULIA delivers a scalable suite of...

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Reduce time and costs Improve product reliability Gain competitive advantage Abaqus offers a sophisticated environment for accelerating contact modeling and mesh creation. Image courtesy of Ford Motor Company Modeling Abaqus offers a hybrid modeling approach that enables users to work with geometry-based data alongside imported meshes without associated geometry. It also provides a powerful modeling and visualization environment focused on complete support of Abaqus solver technology, customization capabilities, proven capture and reuse of analysis workflows, and the flexibility to implement...

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Advanced Analysis Linear & Nonlinear The implicit solution technology in Abaqus is ideal for solving static and low-speed dynamic events, such as sealing pressure in a gasket joint or crack propagation in a composite airplane fuselage. Many industrial applications today involve the interaction of multiple physical phenomena. For example, in order to design safe and effective drugeluting stents, engineers must account for the interplay between blood flow and stent deformation. In addition to providing basic and advanced linear analysis capabilities, Abaqus also supports the general application...

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Abaqus Advantages FEA and Multiphysics • Linear and nonlinear • Coupled physics: structural acoustics, thermal-electrical, and more • Electromagnetics and smoothed particle hydrodynamics Complex Materials • Rubbers, thermo-plastics, powder metals, human tissue, soil, composites, and more Complex Assemblies • Flexible multibody dynamics, controls, and joint behavior Applus IDIADA Designs Out Vehicle Squeaks As vehicles run more quietly, drivers have become more aware of interior squeaks and rattles (S&R), impacting warranties and customer satisfaction for automotive manufacturers and dealerships....

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Delivering Best-in-Class Products Virtual Product Design Realistic Simulation Virtual Production Global Collaborative Lifecycle Management Virtual Planet Information Intelligence Dashboard Intelligence Social Innovation Online 3D Lifelike Experiences Dassault Systemes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its world-leading solutions transform the way products are designed, produced, and supported. Dassault Systemes' collaborative solutions foster social innovation, expanding possibilities for the virtual world to improve...

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