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Abaqus 6.8

Abaqus 6.8

Abaqus 6.8

Product catalog summary
Efficient Modeling Tools
The Abaqus Unified FEA product suite offers a hybrid modeling approach, allowing users to work with both geometry-based data and imported meshes. Abaqus/CAE provides a user-friendly environment for creating, editing, and visualizing finite element analyses, supporting both expert and novice users. It features parametric modeling and supports a wide range of analysis functionalities, including acoustics and fracture.
Geometry and Meshing
Parts and assemblies can be created or imported from CAD systems, with tools available for geometry repair. Abaqus/CAE offers various meshing techniques, including structured and adaptive remeshing, to simplify and speed up mesh creation.
Analysis Procedures
Abaqus is used across industries for simulating real-world conditions. Abaqus/Standard is ideal for static and low-speed dynamic events, while Abaqus/Explicit handles high-speed dynamics. The suite allows transferring results between different solution technologies.
Contact Modeling
Abaqus provides comprehensive contact modeling capabilities, with automatic contact detection to simplify setup. This feature is crucial for simulating interactions in manufacturing processes and assemblies.
Realistic Simulation
The suite supports multiphysics capabilities, allowing for simulations involving multiple physical phenomena, such as thermal-electrical interactions. It also supports code coupling for fluid-structure interaction analysis.
High-Performance Simulation
Abaqus employs parallel processing technologies to reduce analysis time, supporting up to 64 CPUs. This enhances productivity and allows for detailed design scenario examinations.
Visualization
Abaqus/CAE offers extensive visualization options to interpret and communicate analysis results effectively. It supports various output formats, aiding in collaboration and decision-making.
Customization
The Abaqus Scripting Interface and GUI Toolkit allow for customization and automation of analysis tasks, enabling organizations to deploy robust analysis methods enterprise-wide.
Key Features in Abaqus 6.8
New interfaces and enhancements improve model synchronization and material management. Structural analysis features include the Virtual Crack Closure Technique and anisotropic hyperelastic material models. Computing performance is enhanced through improved solvers and contact algorithms.
Advanced Materials
Abaqus provides a library of material models for simulating modern materials, supporting the modeling of damage and failure in composites and other materials.
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Catalog excerpts

Abaqus 6.8-3

A new SolidWorks Associative Interface maintains the relationship between SolidWorks and Abaqus models.Enhancements to the Pro/ENGINEER Associative Interface > provide a bi-directional capability to synchronize model updates. The Material Library enables the efficient use and > management of material properties from multiple sources, including third-party and proprietary databases. Modeling improvements accelerate the creation > and definition of meshes, fasteners, connectors, cyclic symmetry, and cavity radiation.Visualization and output improvements have been made for > free-body cuts, beam...

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