Michelwatt

  If you are already familiar with the Simulia Abaqus solver products and wish to learn Abaqus/CAE, three handy tutorials are at hand to ease your transition. These are excellent for anyone who wishes to undergo complete Abaqus courses or gain an understanding of the basics before progressing to intensive training. In Appendix B, you will develop and examine a basic model with Abaqus/CAE. It guides you through the entire modeling and analysis process, enabling you to view the results easily. Appendix C covers more advanced methods such as working with parts, sketches, partitions, and assembling instances—all of which are critical steps in creating realistic simulations. In Appendix D, you'll learn how to use the Visualization module (Abaqus/Viewer) to display analysis results in various forms and adjust the appearance.  If you're interested in soil-structure modeling, check out this blog on Abaqus for Geotechnical Engineering The manual employs special text styles to facilita...

Concrete is the most prevalent construction material because of its strength and durability. But, as time goes on, concrete can start to crack, deform, and even fail at times when a certain load has been applied to it. Due to the unpredictable behaviour of concrete when stressed, engineers have the desire to have tools we can use to predict the behaviour of concrete structures and how they will respond when loads have been applied. This is where the Abaqus concrete damage plasticity model comes in. It is probably one of the best available simulation tools that can be utilized in the Abaqus suite, which will allow you to test and understand how concrete behaves under loading conditions.  In this blog, we will write about how the Abaqus concrete damage plasticity model works, how it has been applicable in a real engineering situation, and why this is a skill civil and structural engineers can benefit from having. We will also cover one of Abaqus training courses, which will enable yo...