Abaqus

SIMULIA Abaqus FEA
Original author(s)Dassault Systemes
Developer(s)Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.[1]
Stable release
2023 / November 2022
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
Linux[2][3]
PlatformWindows/x86-64
Linux/x86-64[2][3]
TypeComputer-aided engineering, Finite Element Analysis
LicenseProprietary commercial software
Websitewww.simulia.com

Abaqus FEA[4][5] (formerly ABAQUS) is a software suite for finite element analysis and computer-aided engineering, originally released in 1978. The name and logo of this software are based on the abacus calculation tool.[6] The Abaqus product suite consists of five core software products:[5]

  1. Abaqus/CAE, or "Complete Abaqus Environment" (a backronym with a root in Computer-Aided Engineering[7]). It is a software application used for both the modeling and analysis of mechanical components and assemblies (pre-processing) and visualizing the finite element analysis result. A subset of Abaqus/CAE including only the post-processing module can be launched independently in the Abaqus/Viewer product.
  2. Abaqus/Standard, a general-purpose Finite-Element analyzer that employs implicit integration scheme (traditional).
  3. Abaqus/Explicit, a special-purpose Finite-Element analyzer that employs explicit integration scheme to solve highly nonlinear systems with many complex contacts under transient loads.
  4. Abaqus/CFD, a Computational Fluid Dynamics software application which provides advanced computational fluid dynamics capabilities with extensive support for preprocessing and postprocessing provided in Abaqus/CAE - discontinued in Abaqus 2017 and further releases.[8]
  5. Abaqus/Electromagnetic, a Computational electromagnetics software application which solves advanced computational electromagnetic problems.

The Abaqus products use the open-source scripting language Python for scripting and customization. Abaqus/CAE uses the fox-toolkit for GUI development.

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  3. ^ a b "Hardware & Software Certification - Dassault Systèmes". www.3ds.com. Archived from the original on 11 December 2012.
  4. ^ "Product Index". SIMULIA web site. Dassault Systèmes Simulia Corp. Archived from the original on 29 May 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
  5. ^ a b "Abaqus FEA". SIMULIA web site. Dassault Systèmes. Archived from the original on 2 May 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
  6. ^ "ABAQUS CEO Interview". Archived from the original on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  7. ^ "ABAQUS 6.9 User Documentation". Internet Manual. Simulia. Archived from the original on 23 September 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
  8. ^ "Abaqus Unified FEA - SIMULIA by Dassault Systèmes". www.3ds.com. Archived from the original on 15 November 2012.