ABAQUS/EXPLICIT 2017 DATA SHEET
ANALYSIS TYPES
• Nonlinear dynamic stress/
displacement
• Acoustics
• Adiabatic stress
• Coupled Eulerian-
Lagrangian
• Coupled field
-- Thermo-mechanical
-- Shock and acoustic-
structural
ANALYSIS
AND MODELING
TECHNIQUES
• Import
• Restart
• Recover
• Automated mass scaling
• Nonstructural mass
• Adaptive remeshing
• Tracer particles
• Steady-state detection
• Submodeling
• Parameterization and
parametric studies
• Cosimulation
• Subcycling
• Hydrostatic fluid modeling
• Surface-based fluid cavities
• Meshed beam
cross-sections
• Annealing
• Automatic perturbation of
geometry
• Local degrees of freedom
• Reinforcements
• Embedded elements
• Display bodies
• User subroutines
• Coupled Eulerian-
Lagrangian automated
mesh refinement
PARALLEL EXECUTION
• Domain decomposition-
based parallel processing
• Available on both shared
memory and distributed
memory parallel (cluster)
systems
• User Controllable Domain
Decomposition
MATERIAL DEFINITIONS
Elastic Mechanical
Properties
• Linear elasticity
• Orthotropic and anisotropic
linear elasticity
• Hyperelasticity (including
permanent set)
• Anisotropic hyperelasticity
• Elastomeric foam
• Low-density foam
• Fabric
• Mullins effect
• Time-domain
viscoelasticity
• Equation of state
• Nonlinear viscoelasticity
Inelastic Mechanical
Properties
• Metal plasticity
-- Isotropic and anisotropic
yield
-- Isotropic and kinematic
hardening
-- Rate-dependent yield
-- Porous metal plasticity
-- Annealing or melting
-- Johnson-Cook plasticity
-- Cast Iron
• Progressive damage and
failure
-- Ductile
-- Shear
-- Forming limit diagram
(FLD)
-- Forming limit stress
diagram (FLSD)
-- Müschenborn-Sonne
forming limit
diagram (MSFLD)
-- Marciniak-Kuczynski
(M-K) criteria
-- Hashin unidirectional
composite
• Extended Drucker-Prager
plasticity
• Modified Drucker-Prager/
Cap plasticity
• Cam-Clay plasticity
• Mohr-Coulomb plasticity
• Crushable foam plasticity
• Concrete
-- Brittle cracking • DEM (Discrete Element
-- Damaged plasticity Method)
Additional Material Structural
Properties • Stress analysis
-- Membrane (3-D)
• Density
-- Truss (2-D and 3-D)
• Equations of State:
-- Beams (2-D and 3-D)
-- Mie-Grüneisen
-- Shells (3-D, 3-D continuum,
-- Tabulated
and axisymmetric)
-- P-alpha compaction
-- Coupled temperature-
-- JWL
displacement shells
-- Ignition and growth
-- Ideal gas (3-D, 3-D continuum)
-- User defined Inertial Elements
• Material damping • Stress analysis
• Thermal expansion -- Point mass (2-D and 3-D)
• Heat transfer properties -- Anisotropic point mass
-- Thermal conductivity -- Rotary inertia (2-D and 3-D)
-- Specific heat
Special-Purpose Elements
-- Latent heat
• Acoustic medium properties • Surface elements
-- Bulk modulus • Hydrostatic fluid elements
-- Volumetric drag • Rigid elements
-- Cavitation limit • User elements
• Hydrostatic fluid properties • Capacitance elements
-- Hydraulic fluids • Connector elements
-- Pneumatic fluids • Cohesive elements
• Viscous shear behavior • Springs and dashpots
for fluids Prescribed Conditions
• User materials • Amplitude curves
• Initial conditions
ELEMENT LIBRARY • Boundary conditions
Continuum • Loads
• Stress analysis -- Distributed
-- 2-D (plane stress and -- Surface tractions
plane strain) -- Concentrated forces and
-- 3-D moments
-- Axisymmetric -- Air blast
-- Infinite -- Follower forces
• Acoustic -- Thermal
-- 2-D -- Acoustic
-- 3-D -- Predefined fields
-- Axisymmetric -- User-defined
-- Infinite • Sensors and actuators
• Coupled temperature-
displacement CONSTRAINTS AND
-- 2-D (plane stress and INTERACTIONS
plane strain) Kinematic Constraints
-- 3-D • Linear constraint equations
-- Axisymmetric • General multi-point constraints
• Surface-based constraints
Particles
• Smoothed particle -- Mesh ties
-- Kinematic and distributing
hydrodynamics
couplings
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-- Shell-to-solid couplings • Thermal contact properties SUPPORTED PLATFORMS • The models are in
-- Mesh-independent • User-defined interfacial • Windows/x86-32 SI units and include
fasteners constitutive behavior • Windows/x86-64 accelerometers (nodes),
• Embedded elements • Surface property • Linux/x86-64 load cells (beams), and
Contact Modeling definitions transducers (connectors)
-- Surface thickness DOCUMENTATION for extraction of occupant
• General (“automatic”) • Analysis User’s Manual
contact -- Feature edges injury criteria
-- Offsets • Keywords Manual
• Surface-based contact pairs • Getting Started Manual Abaqus/Aqua
• Contact interactions • Contact formulations • Surrounding medium
-- Penalty and kinematic • Example Problems Manual
-- 2-D and 3-D • Benchmarks Manual -- Fluid profile
-- Deformable-deformable contact -- Wave profile
-- Balanced or pure master- • Verification Manual
contact • Theory Manual -- Wind profile

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-- Deformable-rigid contact slave contact • Loading
• Release Notes
-- Rigid-rigid contact Input -- Drag
-- Self-contact • Keywords PRODUCT SUPPORT -- Buoyancy
-- Eroding contact • Set concept • Maintenance and support -- Inertia
-- Edge-to-edge contact • Multiple coordinate • Quality Monitoring Service
• Installation
Interface Products
• Mechanical contact systems • Enable the use of
properties • Parts and assemblies • Training and users’ meetings
Abaqus/Explicit with
-- Hard contact
OUTPUT RELATED PRODUCTS complementary software
-- Soft contact from third-party suppliers
• Interactive graphical CZone
-- Contact damping in areas such as plastics
postprocessing
-- Static and kinetic Dummy Models injection molding
• Platform-neutral output
Coulomb friction • Crash test dummy models
database
-- User-defined friction for use in crashworthiness
• Restart output
models and occupant safety
• Diagnostic messages
-- Breakable bonds simulations
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-- Cohesive behavior

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