ABAQUS/STANDARD 2016 DATA SHEET
ANALYSIS TYPES
General, Linear, and
Nonlinear Analyses
Static stress/displacement
Direct cyclic
Low-cycle fatigue
Viscoelastic/viscoplastic
response
Dynamic stress/
displacement
Steady-state transport
Heat transfer (transient
and steady-state)
Mass diffusion (transient
and steady-state)
Acoustics
Multiphysics
-- Thermo-electrical-
structural
-- Pore-fluid flow-
mechanical-thermal
-- Magnetostatic
-- Transient low frequency
electromagnetic
Linear Perturbation
Analyses
Static stress/displacement
-- Linear static
-- Eigenvalue buckling
Dynamic stress/
displacement SOLUTION TECHNIQUES
-- Natural frequency
extraction
-- Complex eigenvalue
extraction
-- Steady-state dynamics
(direct and mode-based)
-- Transient modal
dynamics
-- Response spectrum
-- Random response
Time-harmonic low
frequency electromagnetic
ANALYSIS AND
MODELING
TECHNIQUES
Import
Restart
Substructuring
Flexible Body Generation
Submodeling
Material removal and
addition
Mesh-to-mesh solution
mapping
Adaptive remeshing
Fracture mechanics
(including VCCT)
Symmetric model
generation and results
transfer
Cyclic symmetry
Inertia relief
Nonstructural mass
Direct matrix input
Cosimulation
Automatic resolution of
overconstraints
Data parameterization and Inelastic Mechanical
parametric studies
Automatic perturbation of
geometry
Local degrees of freedom
Hydrostatic fluid cavities
Annealing
Reinforcements
Embedded elements
Elastic formulation
Meshed beam cross
sections
Rigid, display, and
isothermal bodies
Parallel execution on
both shared memory and
distributed memory parallel
(cluster) systems
Parallel direct sparse
solver with dynamic load
balancing
Parallel iterative solver
Parallel Lanczos eigenvalue
solution
Parallel AMS eigenvalue
solution
Parallel element operations
Multiple load cases
Full Newton and quasi-
Newton methods
GPGPU accelerated sparse
solver
MATERIAL DEFINITIONS
Elastic Mechanical
Properties
Linear elasticity
Orthotropic and anisotropic
linear elasticity
Porous elasticity
Hypoelasticity
Hyperelasticity (including
permanent set)
Anisotropic hyperelasticity
Elastomeric foam
Mullins effect
Viscoelasticity
Nonlinear viscoelasticity
Hysteresis
Properties
Metal plasticity
-- Isotropic and anisotropic
yield criteria
-- Isotropic, kinematic, and
ORNL hardening
-- Porous metal plasticity
-- Cast iron
-- Two-layer viscoplasticity
-- Creep
-- Volumetric swelling
-- Deformation plasticity
-- Johnson-Cook plasticity
Extended Drucker-Prager
plasticity
Capped Drucker-Prager
plasticity
Cam-Clay plasticity
Mohr-Coulomb plasticity
Crushable foam plasticity
Jointed materials
Concrete
Progressive damage and
failure
-- Ductile
-- Shear
-- Forming limit diagram (FLD)
-- Forming limit stress
diagram (FLSD)
-- Mschenborn-Sonne
forming limit
diagram (MSFLD)
-- Hashin unidirectional
composite
Additional Material
Properties
Density
Material damping
Thermal expansion
Thermal and electrical
conductivity
Specific heat
Latent heat
Damage and failure for fiber-
reinforced composites
Acoustic medium properties
-- Bulk modulus
-- Volumetric drag
Porous acoustic medium
-- Delany-Bazley
-- Miki
Hydrostatic fluid properties
-- Hydraulic fluids
-- Pneumatic fluids
Mass diffusion properties
-- Diffusivity
-- Solubility
Pore fluid flow properties
-- Permeability
-- Porous bulk moduli
-- Absorption/exsorption
-- Swelling gel
-- Moisture swelling
User materials
Electromagnetic properties
-- Piezoelectric behavior
-- Magnetic permeability
(with nonlinear B-H behavior)
-- Permanent magnet
-- Electrical conductivity
ELEMENT LIBRARY
Continuum
Stress analysis
-- 2-D (plane stress, plane
strain, and
-- generalized plane strain)
-- 3-D (regular and variable
node)
-- Cylindrical
-- Axisymmetric (with and
without twist)
-- Axisymmetric with
nonlinear, asymmetric
deformation
-- Infinite
-- Warping
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Heat transfer Beams Distributing Coupling -- Finite, small, and
-- 1-D Stress analysis Stress analysis infinitesimal sliding
-- 2-D -- 2-D -- 2-D Mechanical contact
-- 3-D -- 3-D (regular, open -- 3-D properties
-- Axisymmetric section, and tapered) -- Penalty contact
Mass diffusion Special-Purpose Elements -- Hard contact with
Pipes Surface elements
-- 2-D classical Lagrange
Stress analysis Hydrostatic fluid elements
-- 3-D multiplier method
-- 2-D Tube support elements
-- Axisymmetric -- Hard contact with
-- 3-D Line spring elements
Temperature-displacement augmented Lagrangian
-- 2-D (plane stress, plane Elbows Pipe-soil interaction method
strain, and generalized Stress analysis elements -- Contact damping
plane strain) -- 3-D Acoustic interface elements -- Static and kinetic
-- 3-D Frame Elements User-Defined Elements Coulomb friction
-- Axisymmetric (with and Stress analysis Provides the ability to -- Anisotropic friction
without twist) -- 2-D define custom elements -- User-defined friction
Pore pressure -- 3-D Prescribed Conditions models
-- 2-D (plane strain) Amplitude curves -- Pressure penetration (2-D
-- 3-D Trusses & 3-D)
Stress analysis Initial conditions
-- Axisymmetric Boundary conditions -- Debonding
-- Axisymmetric with -- 2-D -- Cohesive behavior
-- 3-D Loads
nonlinear, asymmetric -- Distributed -- Thermal conductance
deformation Temperature-displacement and radiation contact
-- 2-D -- Surface tractions
Piezoelectric -- Concentrated forces properties
-- 2-D (plane stress and -- 3-D Electrical contact properties
Piezoelectric and moments
plane strain) -- Follower forces Pore fluid contact properties
-- 3-D -- 2-D User-defined interfacial
-- 3-D -- Thermal
-- Axisymmetric -- Electrical constitutive behavior
-- Axisymmetric with Gasket Elements -- Acoustic Element-Based Contact
nonlinear, asymmetric Stress analysis -- Pore fluid flow
deformation
Modeling
-- 2-D (plane stress and -- Prescribed assembly loads Gap contact elements
Thermal-electrical plane strain) -- Predefined fields -- Mechanical and thermal
-- 1-D -- 3-D -- User-defined
-- 2-D -- Axisymmetric Cavity Radiation
Sensors and actuators
-- 3-D 2-D, 3-D, axisymmetric
Inertial Elements
-- Axisymmetric
Stress analysis
CONSTRAINTS AND Closed and open cavities
Acoustic
-- Point mass
INTERACTIONS Symmetry and surface
-- 1-D blocking
-- Anisotropic Point Mass Kinematic Constraints
-- 2-D Surface motion with
-- Rotary inertia Linear constraint equations
-- 3-D automatic view factor
General multi-point
-- Axisymmetric Rigid Elements computations
constraints
-- Infinite Stress analysis Surface radiation properties
Kinematic coupling
Electromagnetic -- 2-D
-- 2-D -- 3-D
Surface-based constraints USER SUBROUTINES
-- Mesh ties Over 40 user-defined
-- 3-D Capacitance Elements -- Kinematic and distributing subroutines
Shells Heat transfer point heat couplings
Stress analysis capacitance -- Shell-to-solid couplings ADDITIONAL FEATURES
-- 3-D -- Mesh-independent Drag chains
Connector Elements Spud can joint elements
-- Continuum shell Stress analysis fasteners
-- Axisymmetric Embedded elements Tube-in-tube slide lines
-- 2-D
-- Axisymmetric with -- 3-D Element end release INPUT
nonlinear, asymmetric Surface-Based Contact Keywords
deformation Cohesive Elements
Stress analysis Modeling Set concept
Heat transfer Multiple coordinate systems
-- 2-D General (automatic)
-- 3-D Parts and assemblies
-- 3-D contact
-- Axisymmetric Nastran bulk data
Contact interactions
Temperature-displacement Springs, Dashpots, and -- 2-D, 3-D
-- 3-D Flexible Joints OUTPUT
-- Deformable-deformable Interactive graphical
-- Axisymmetric Stress analysis contact postprocessing
Membranes -- 2-D -- Rigid-rigid contact
-- 3-D Platform-neutral output
Stress analysis -- Self-contact
Pore pressure database
-- 3-D Contact formulations
-- 2-D Printed output
-- Cylindrical -- Balanced or pure
-- 3-D External file output
-- Axisymmetric (with and master-slave contact Restart output
without twist)
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Abaqus/AMS
Scripting interface
High-performance
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PLATFORMS substructuring eigensolver
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Linux/x86-64 to shape and material
GPU support parameters
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