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ABAQUS Basics

Description

ABAQUS is a general-purpose, nonlinear finite element analysis program. Scientific Computing and Visualization has recently purchased a copy of ABAQUS 6.5.7. This program is outside our areas of expertise and you will need to experiment with it and consult with it's associated online documentation.

Availability and Setup

ABAQUS itself is available on the Linux Cluster and pSeries machines. However, the ABAQUS CAE and viewer are only available on the Linux Cluster.

To invoke ABAQUS, type:

skate% abaqus

To start the CAE graphical interface (not available on pSeries), type:

skate% abaqus cae

Using ABAQUS

ABAQUS is somewhat outside of our fields of expertise and we are therefore unable to provide more detailed help and instructions on the package's use.

Additional Help/Documentation

A large collection of ABAQUS documentation and tutorials is available.

Online, you should consider visiting the ABAQUS WWW Server as they are the developers of ABAQUS.

If you need access to the hardcopy documentation for ABAQUS, we do have it and it is available in the Computer Graphics Lab (Room 203, 111 Cummington Street, lab hours and access).

Document Name: ABAQUS
Author/Maintainer: Aaron D. Fuegi (aarondf@bu.edu) and Wayne Gilmore (waygil@bu.edu)
Executable: /usr/local/bin/abaqus, /usr/local/bin/abq657
Keywords: abaqus, FEM, finite, element
Machines List: IBM p690 and IBM p655 (main package only), Linux Cluster
Created July 19, 2006; Last Revised July 19, 2006; Last Modified 16:13 19-Jul-06
URL of this document: http://scv.bu.edu/Graphics/abaqus.html
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