NAFEMS Benchmarks

This chapter defines some of the finite element benchmarks that are recommended by the National Agency for Finite Element Methods and Standards (UK). The first three categories of benchmarks documented here are the Linear Elastic, Temperature, and Free Vibration tests described in NAFEMS publication TNSB, Rev. 3, “The Standard NAFEMS Benchmarks,” October 1990. Proposed benchmarks from the draft documents “Selected Benchmarks for Forced Vibration,” R0016, March 1993, and “NAFEMS Non-linear Benchmarks,” October 1989, are also included here. The benchmarks in this chapter are tested as part of the verification of Abaqus.


In this section:

Standard benchmarks: linear elastic tests
Standard benchmarks: linear thermoelastic tests
Standard benchmarks: free vibration tests
Proposed forced vibration benchmarks
Proposed nonlinear benchmarks
Two-dimensional test cases in linear elastic fracture mechanics
Fundamental tests of creep behavior
Composite tests
Geometric nonlinear tests