ABAQUS
Overview
ABAQUS is a finite element solver used for stress, heat transfer, and other types of analysis in mechanical, structural, civil, biomedical, and related engineering applications.
The ABAQUS system consists of the following programs:
- ABAQUS/Standard : A general purpose finite element program.
- ABAQUS/Explicit : An Explicit dynamics finite element program.
- ABAQUS/Post : An interactive postprocessing program which provides displays and output lists from restart and
results files written by ABAQUS/Standard and ABAQUS/Explicit.
- ABAQUS/Plot : This program is used to plot results of ABAQUS analyses generated with ABAQUS/Post.
- ABAQUS/CAE : ABAQUS/CAE is a complete environment for modeling, managing, and monitoring ABAQUS
analysis jobs, as well as visualizing results from the ABAQUS analysis products -
ABAQUS/Standard and ABAQUS/Explicit.
- ABAQUS/Viewer : ABAQUS/Viewer is an interactive postprocessor ABAQUS.
Setup
No special setup is necessary to run ABAQUS.
Usage
Start ABAQUS with your job identifier. The job indentifier should be the
input filename without the .inp extension. If the job identifier is not given,
ABAQUS will prompt for an identifier. For example:
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abaqus job=my_sample_job interactive
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Note that the interactive keyword should always be used in PBS scripts
since otherwise the job will be backgrounded and PBS will think the job has
finished before it really has.
Some of the commonly used options for using ABAQUS can be found by typing: abaqus help
Examples
Example problems are available in the directory:
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/usr/global/abaqus65/6.5-2/samples/job_archive
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Copy the samples*.tar files to your home directory and untar (for eg., tar -xvf
samples1.tar) them in an empty directory. The untarred files are abaqus input files.
Documentation
A complete set of ABAQUS manuals are placed in the ASET labs in Hammond Building for user reference.
Please send questions or suggestions about this web page to beatnic@aset.psu.edu
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