Abaqus

• General, linear, nonlinear, and linear perturbation analyses, including (but not limited to):
  • Static stress/displacement
  • Dynamic stress/displacement
  • Low-cycle fatigue
  • Thermal-stress
  • Acoustics
• Implicit-explicit (and vice versa) analysis step sequencing (e.g. prestressing static assembly step, followed by high-speed impact analysis).
• Time- and frequency-domain analysis step sequencing (e.g. nonlinear engine cover mounting analysis, followed by linear acoustic response).
• Multiphysics both within Abaqus (e.g. thermo-electrical-structural) and connecting to third-party solvers (e.g. fluid-structure interaction).
• Extreme scalability with parallelization up to hundreds of CPU cores and multi-GPU acceleration.
• Sophisticated material models including (but not limited to):
  • Anisotropy
  • Hypoelasticity & hyperelasticity
  • Viscoelasticity
  • Porousness
  • Hysteresis
  • Plasticity
  • Progressive damage & failure
  • Damping
  • Thermal expansion & conductivity
  • Acoustics
  • Composites
  • Mass diffusion
  • Electromagnetism
• Continuum 3D and 2D elements with special-application and high-accuracy formulations.
• Extensive analytical element library including connectors, springs, gaskets, beams, flexible joints, and more.
• Automatic global (and manual paired) contact definition with detailed property definition, following a surface-based approach.
• User-defined elements, material behaviors, interactions, prescribed conditions, and subroutines.
• Clear and informative analysis output with easy-to-understand diagnostics.

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• Repair, nondestructively defeature, and midsurface your geometry for analysis.
• Build surface and volume mesh with the automated parametric mesher.
  • Supports shell, tetra, and hex elements, with adaptive remeshing.
• Nonlinear dynamic stress/displacement
• Implicit-explicit (and vice versa) analysis step sequencing (e.g. prestressing static assembly step, followed by high-speed impact analysis)
• Multiphysics both within Abaqus (e.g. Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics) and connecting to third-party solvers.
• Extreme scalability with parallelization up to hundreds of CPU cores.
• Sophisticated material models including (but not limited to):
  • Anisotropy
  • Hyperelasticity
  • Viscoelasticity
  • Plasticity
  • Progressive damage & failure
  • Thermal expansion & conductivity
  • Composites
• Continuum 3D and 2D elements with special-application and high-accuracy formulations.
• Extensive analytical element library including connectors, springs, gaskets, beams, flexible joints, and more.
• Automatic global (and manual paired) contact definition with detailed property definition, following a surface-based approach.
• User-defined elements, material behaviors, interactions, prescribed conditions, and subroutines.
• Clear and informative analysis output with easy-to-understand diagnostics.

Learn More About the Abaqus Solvers

• Build your Abaqus model on your local machine and upload it to the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
• Use the 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation Manager to configure how you want your model to solve:
  • Several years of Abaqus versions
  • 4-192 CPU cores
  • Single/double precision
  • Restarts
• Solve on the cloud with a pay-as-you-go credit-hour system.
• Solve models simultaneously for faster project turnaround.
• Monitor job progress in the web UI.
• Preview results in the web UI.
• Download ODB files for local post-processing.
• Keep all other files as well (log, sta, msg, etc.) for your archives.

See How to Run Abaqus Jobs on the Cloud

• One subscription includes pre-/post-processor and solver access (including cloud compute).
• Import loose CAD or natively interact with CAD in the 3DEXPERIENCE CLOUD PDM system.
• Simulation setup wizard can guide you through the whole model building process for common analyses.
• Preprocessor capabilities include automated mesh generation, connector building, scenario definition, and more.
• Solver is the latest version of Abaqus and includes all its benefits, such as multisolver & multiphysics analyses, robust contact algorithm, accurate material models, and great handling of nonlinearity.
• Solve on your local system or the cloud with included dual-use compute tokens. Add additional compute capability as you like, up to 192 cores.

Learn More About 3DEXPERIENCE STRUCTURAL

License Types

• Perpetual: Grants permanent access to the latest version of Abaqus at time of purchase (and all versions prior). You may choose to pay the small annual support fee to receive ongoing, high-quality customer support from GoEngineer and access to the yearly major Abaqus update.
• Term: Available yearly and quarterly, you can also "pay as you go" for Abaqus. This periodic charge includes customer support and always gives you the latest Abaqus release (and all releases prior).

Licensed Items

• Abaqus/CAE: The Abaqus/CAE pre-/post-processor is a separate licensed item from the Abaqus solvers. While it is the official and recommended GUI for Abaqus, you may forgo it for a third-party solution.
• Abaqus/CAE Associative Interfaces (CAD Connectors): These Abaqus/CAE add-ons provide a two-way connection to CAD data for SOLIDWORKS, CATIA, and Creo (Pro/E).
• Abaqus/Viewer: For users who just need to view or post-process results, you can get Abaqus/Viewer instead of the full Abaqus/CAE at significant cost savings.
• Abaqus Solver Tokens: Traditional Abaqus licensing does not differentiate between its Standard and Explicit solvers. How many tokens you will need is simply a matter of how many CPU cores and GPUs you wish to solve on. Use the calculator below to determine your total tokens.
• SimUnit Solver Tokens: Priced to be equivalent to traditional Abaqus tokens, these new universal solver tokens will activate Abaqus, CST Studio Suite, and other desktop SIMULIA and 3DEXPERIENCE SIMULATION products. Our Abaqus licensing guide provides token-to-core conversions.
• Abaqus Cloud Credits: If you do not have a powerful local machine to solve large Abaqus models on, you can get "pay as you go" access to Dassault Systèmes's official Abaqus cloud servers. Rather than tokens, Abaqus Cloud Compute uses credits that deplete over solve time. This is ideal for those whose need for Abaqus is not consistent throughout the year.
  • One convenient arrangement is to buy a small amount of local solve tokens to run small jobs and debug large models, while also buying cloud compute credits to run those special large jobs.

Abaqus Token Calculator

How many CPU cores do you want your Abaqus solver to use? Use the slider below to find out how many tokens your core count will require. If you are using GPU acceleration, each GPU device counts as one additional core.

Results: For a 1 -core Abaqus solve, I need 5 Abaqus tokens.

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fe-safe

Advanced fatigue analysis based on your Abaqus results files.

• Wide range of inputs, including sequential stresses, superimposed time histories, PSD, rainflow, etc.
• Stress- and strain-based approaches
• Special-purpose methods (e.g. weld fatigue, rotating parts)
• Output 3D contour plots, critical plane vector plots, Haigh and Smith diagrams, Dang Van plots, etc.
• Comprehensive material database correlated to international standards

Tosca

Topology, shape, bead, and sizing optimization based on your Abaqus results files.

• Prepare analysis deck(s), set design constraints & performance goals, and launch.
• Automatic "redesign & reanalyze" loop converges on design objectives and produces geometric output.
• Optimize against as many linear/nonlinear load cases as you need: static, dynamic, explicit, thermo-mechanical, etc.
• Design optimization without parameterization.
• Handles complex manufacturing constraints.

Isight & SIMULIA Execution Engine

Open-ended framework for integrating design and simulation models across multidisciplinary tools.

• Build automated simulation processes using multiple software packages and distributed computing resources.
• Optimize against performance or cost metrics through statistical methods, such as design of experiments (DOE) or Design for Six Sigma (DFSS).
• Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) offers an accurate method to address uncertainty and randomness in product design and operating environment.