This section lists the topics in this guide that apply to Abaqus/Standard.
This page discusses:
Aqua load cases
Elastic-plastic joint elements
Jack-up foundation analysis
Adaptive meshing applied to coupled structural-acoustic problems
Impedance boundary conditions
Perfectly matched layers
Transient acoustic wave propagation
Volumetric drag
Error indicators
Heat energy balance
Material Deposition
Material Removal
Metallurgical phase transformations
Moving Heat Sources
Pattern-based eigenstrain analysis
Connector elements in perturbation analyses
Damped free vibration with initial conditions
Individual connector option tests
Multiple instances of connector elements
Sinusoidal excitation of a damped spring-mass system
Tests for special-purpose connectors
Adjusting contact surface normals at symmetry planes
Automated contact patch algorithm for finite-sliding deformable surfaces
Automatic element conversion for surface contact
Automatic surface definition and surface trimming
Contact between discrete points
Contact controls
Contact surface extensions
Contact with initial overclosure of curved surfaces
Contact with time-dependent prescribed interference values
Finite sliding between concentric cylinders—axisymmetric and CAXA models
Finite-sliding contact between a deformable body and a meshed rigid surface
Finite-sliding contact between a deformable body and a rigid surface
Finite-sliding contact between coupled pore pressure-displacement elements
Finite-sliding contact between coupled temperature-displacement elements
Finite-sliding contact between coupled thermal-electrical-structural elements
Finite-sliding contact between stress/displacement elements
General contact in Abaqus/Standard
Self-contact of finite-sliding deformable surfaces
Small-sliding contact between coupled pore pressure-displacement elements
Small-sliding contact between coupled temperature-displacement surfaces
Small-sliding contact between coupled thermal-electrical-structural surfaces
Small-sliding contact between stress/displacement elements
Small-sliding contact with specified clearance or overclosure values
Surface smoothing for surface-to-surface contact
Surface-to-surface approach for finite-sliding contact
Abaqus/Standard to Abaqus/Explicit co-simulation
Fluid-structure interaction of a cantilever beam inside a channel
Coupled thermal-electrochemical analysis
Crack propagation analysis
Hydraulically driven branching fracture
Propagation of hydraulically driven fracture
Modal dynamic analysis with baseline correction
Random response analysis
Steady-state dynamic analysis for infinite elements
Steady-state dynamic analysis for two-dimensional elements
Acoustic modes
Eigenvalue extraction for single unconstrained elements
Eigenvalue extraction for unconstrained patches of elements
Eddy current analysis
Magnetostatic analysis
Beam stress/displacement elements
Cohesive element load verification
Continuum and shell heat transfer elements
Continuum mass diffusion elements
Continuum pore pressure elements
Continuum stress/displacement elements
Coupled temperature-displacement elements
Coupled thermal-electrical-structural elements
Distributed traction and edge loads
ELBOW elements
Incident wave loading
Mass and rotary inertia elements
Piezoelectric elements
Pipe stress/displacement elements
Rigid elements
Shell, membrane, and truss stress/displacement elements
Thermal-electrical elements
Cohesive surface interaction
Coupled thermal-electrical surface interaction
Coupling of acoustic and structural elements
Friction models in Abaqus/Standard
Thermal surface interaction
Annealing temperature
Composite, mass proportional, and rotary inertia proportional damping in Abaqus/Standard
Concrete damaged plasticity
Concrete smeared cracking
Creep
Cure modeling in Abaqus/Standard
Elastic materials
Hydrostatic fluid
Hysteretic materials
Johnson-Cook plasticity
Mullins effect and permanent set
Multiscale materials
Nonlinear large-strain viscoelasticity with hyperelasticity
Plasticity corrections
Progressive damage and failure in fiber-reinforced materials
Progressive damage and failure of ductile metals
Rate-dependent plasticity in Abaqus/Standard
Rate-independent plasticity
Transient internal pressure loading of a viscoelastic cylinder
Two-layer viscoplasticity
Viscoelastic materials
Meshing and analyzing a two-dimensional model of a beam cross-section
Using generated cross-section properties in a beam analysis
Adaptive mesh for solid elements in Abaqus/Standard
Adjusting nodal coordinates
Amplitude
Boundary conditions
Coupled pore-thermal elements
Coupling constraints
Define a part instance that will be used for display only
Defining a matrix for part of a model
Defining temperature, field variable, pressure stress, and pore fluid pressure values
Defining the cutting surface
Embedded element technique
Establishing geostatic equilibrium when the initial stress state is unknown
Extrapolation
Inertia-based load balancing
Initial contact stress
Kinematic coupling constraint
Mesh-independent spot welds
Modified contact pressure-overclosure relationship
Multi-point constraints
Pre-tension section
Radiation view factor definition: symmetries and blocking
Release rotational degrees of freedom
Reset overconstraint checking controls
Shell-to-solid coupling constraints
Spatially varying element properties
Specifying geometric imperfection and parameter shape variation
Specifying user-defined field variables directly in the input file
Surface-based tie constraint
Thermal expansion of constraints
User-defined coordinate system
Element nodal forces in beam section orientation
Rigid body motion output variables
Substructure matrix output request
Writing element matrix output records
Complex eigenvalue extraction
Direct cyclic and low-cycle fatigue analyses
Frequency extraction using the AMS eigensolver
Media transport
One-step inverse analysis
Steady-state dynamics with nondiagonal damping using the AMS eigensolver
Transferring results between dissimilar meshes in Abaqus/Standard
Analysis of unbounded acoustic regions
Continuum shells: basic element modes
Convection elements: transport of a temperature pulse
Linear dynamic analysis with fluid link
Nonstructural mass verification
One-dimensional steady-state dynamic solutions for poroelastic acoustic elements
Rebar in Abaqus/Standard
Rigid bodies with temperature DOFs, heat capacitance, and nodal-based thermal loads
Transverse shear for shear-flexible shells
Acoustic model change: steady state
Contact model change
Coupled temperature-displacement model change: steady state
Heat transfer model change: steady state
Pore-thermal model change
Stress/displacement model change: dynamic
Stress/displacement model change: general tests
Stress/displacement model change: static
Membrane patch test
Patch test for acoustic elements
Patch test for axisymmetric elements
Patch test for axisymmetric elements with twist
Patch test for beam elements
Patch test for cylindrical elements
Patch test for heat transfer elements
Patch test for plate bending
Patch test for thermal-electrical elements
Patch test for three-dimensional solid elements
Frequency extraction analysis for piezoelectric materials
General analysis procedures for piezoelectric materials
Static analysis for piezoelectric materials
Rigid body as an MPC
Rigid body constraint
Rigid body mass properties
Tie and pin node sets
Axisymmetric membrane elements
Axisymmetric solid elements
Axisymmetric solid elements with twist
Beam added inertia
Beam fluid inertia
Cantilever sandwich beam: shear flexible shells
Cohesive elements
Constant curvature test for shells
Coriolis loading for direct-solution steady-state dynamic analysis
Cylinder subjected to an asymmetric pore pressure field: CAXA elements
Cylinder subjected to an asymmetric temperature field: CAXA elements
Cylinder subjected to asymmetric pressure loads: CAXA elements
Cylindrical elements
Cylindrical membrane elements
Flexure of a deep beam
Fluid link element
Fluid pipe element
Gasket behavior verification
Gasket element assembly
Generalized plane strain elements with relative motion of bounding planes
Hydrostatic fluid elements
Initial curvature of beams and shells
Loading of piezoelectric elements
Love-Kirchhoff beams and shells
Membrane loading of plane stress, plane strain, membrane, and shell elements
Modal dynamic and transient dynamic analysis with CAXA and SAXA elements
Normal definitions of beams and shells
Pipe-soil interaction elements
Pure bending of a cylinder: CAXA elements
Shear flexible beams and shells: I
Shear flexible beams and shells: II
Shear panel elements
Shell offset
Simple load tests for thermal-electrical elements
Surface-based pressure penetration
Temperature-dependent film condition
Thermal stress in a cylindrical shell
Three-bar truss
Three-dimensional solid elements
Variable thickness shells and membranes
Verification of beam elements and section types
Verification of section forces for shells
Verification of the elastic behavior of frame elements
Verification of the plastic behavior of frame elements
Distributing coupling elements
Drag chain elements
Flexible joint element
Line spring elements
Acoustic submodeling
Axisymmetric continuum stress/displacement submodeling
Axisymmetric stress/displacement submodeling with twist
Coupled temperature-displacement submodeling
Cylindrical continuum stress/displacement submodeling
Gasket submodeling
Heat transfer submodeling
Membrane submodeling
Miscellaneous submodeling tests
Piezoelectric submodeling
Pore pressure submodeling
Shell submodeling
Shell-to-solid submodeling
Surface element submodeling
Three-dimensional continuum stress/displacement submodeling
Two-dimensional continuum stress/displacement submodeling
Coupled structural-acoustic analysis with substructures
Degenerated elements within a substructure
Frequency extraction for substructures
Substructure damping
Substructure load case with centrifugal loads
Substructure load case with nodal pressure loads
Substructure preload history
Substructure recovery with The nodal Transformation
Substructure removal
Substructure rotation, mirroring, transformation, and constraints
Substructures with large rotations
Substructures with rebar
Thermal-stress analysis with substructures
Analysis of cyclic symmetric models
Symmetric model generation and results transfer
Conductivity and specific heat
Field-variable-dependent conductivity
Gap conductance
Adding and removing elements during results transfer
Changing the material definition during import
Miscellaneous results transfer tests
Transferring connector elements into Abaqus/Explicit
Transferring hourglass forces
Transferring mass and rotary inertia elements
Transferring results between Abaqus/Explicit and Abaqus/Standard
Transferring results for a hyperelastic sheet with a circular hole
Transferring results from one Abaqus/Standard analysis to another Abaqus/Standard analysis
Transferring results with damage
Transferring results with general beam sections
Transferring results with general shell sections
Transferring results with hyperelasticity
Transferring results with hyperfoam
Transferring results with orientation
Transferring results with parallel rheological framework
Transferring results with plasticity
Transferring results with viscoelasticity
Transferring rigid elements
DFLUX
DISP
DLOAD
FRIC
FRIC_COEF
GAPCON
GAPELECTR
HARDINI
HETVAL
RSURFU
SDVINI
UAMP
UANISOHYPER_INV and VUANISOHYPER_INV
UCREEPNETWORK
UEL
UELMAT
UEPACTIVATIONVOL
UEXPAN
UFLUID
UGENS
UHARD
UHYPER_STRETCH
UINTER
UMAT and UHYPER
UMATHT
URDFIL
USDFLD
UTEMP, UFIELD, UMASFL, and UPRESS
UTRSNETWORK
UVARM
UWAVE and UEXTERNALDB