Abaqus-Tutorial

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e. A general look of CAE is as follows:
Figure 1. General Look of CAE GUI f. To work through these steps you will work with individual modules in CAE. g. CAE modules: Unless like in ANSYS, you have different modules here. They are as follows: i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. viii. ix. Part – Create individual parts Property – Create and assign material properties. Assembly – Create and place all parts instances Step – Define all analysis steps and the results you want Interaction – Define any contact information Load- Define and place all loads and boundary conditions Mesh – Define your nodes and elements Job – Submit your job for analysis Visualization- View your results
other end of the rectangle (10, 2) and press enter. Click the mouse button 2 anywhere in the view port to finish using the rectangle tool. (If you are using a 2button mouse, press both mouse buttons simultaneously).If you made some mistakes in drawing you can click Delete to make changes. Click done in the prompt area after finishing drawing. Note: Save your model using File > Save/Save As. Save your work in regular intervals using the Save button in the main menu bar.
2. Little more on ABAQUS/CAE: Its better we know the general structure of
CAE before we start working with it. So, let us have some Knowledge transfer! a. ABAQUS CAE creates a binary file with a .cae file extension. When viewing your results it uses the .odb and .fil files b. CAE created an input file to run the analysis. c. You can import an input file to CAE to manipulate the model d. In CAE you make parts, and then assemble those parts into a model which is then analyzed.
3. Creating a model:
a. In the Context bar under Module, select Part if not loaded already. Click on “Create Part” in the toolbox area. Name the part Beam or something you like. Make sure you set Modeling Space to 2D Planar, Type to Deformable, and Base Feature to Shell (Shell for Area; Wire for Line; Point for Point). In the Approximate Size text field type 30 or any value that would be appropriate for your FE model size. Note that the approximate size will not affect your solution. Click Continue to exit the Create Part dialog box. b. Click Create Lines: Rectangle (4 Lines) in the toolbox to draw the cantilever beam. In the Prompt area type (0, 0) and press enter, give coordinates for the 2
1. பைடு நூலகம்aunching Abaqus/CAE
a. Log into Hammer using a SSH client b. Create a separate directory with „mkdir‟ command in your home directory for abaqus analysis. c. Change the directory to the new directory d. Type „abaqus cae’ to launch Abaqus/CAE e. When it starts click on Create Model Database. f. If you want to assign a name to your model, then go to main menu: Model > Manager. Click Rename, type 2D Cantilever Beam or something you like and Click Dismiss.
4. Creating a part
a. In the context bar under Module, select Property. You will see that a new set of tools appear in the toolbox area. Click on Create Material. Edit Material dialog box appears. Name the material (say, Steel) and click on Mechanical > Elasticity > Elastic. Leave Type as Isotropic and fill in the value of Young’s Modulus as 30e6 and Poisson’s ratio as 0.3. Click OK. b. Click on Create Section in the toolbox to define a section. Name the new section as you like (say, BeamSection), set Category to Solid and Type to Homogenous and click Continue. Accept the default selection of Steel for the Materials and Type 0.375 in the Plane Stress/Strain thickness. Click OK. c. Click on Assign Section in the toolbox. Click anywhere in the beam to select it (Note: If you have to select more than one thing, you can use the Shift key for multiple selections). Click Done in the prompt area to accept the selected geometry. The Edit Section Assignment Dialog Box appears containing a list of existing sections. Accept the default selection of BeamSection as the section and click OK. ABAQUS/CAE changes the color of the entire beam to aqua to indicate the region has a section assignment. When you assign a section to a region of a part, the region takes on the material properties associated with the section. d. Assembling the Model: Load the Assembly module from the Context bar. Click on Instance Part button from the toolbox, and Create Instance dialog box appears. Click on Independent (mesh on instance) and click OK. e. Defining Analysis Steps: In the Context bar under Module, select Step. Click on the Create Step button in the toolbox. Name the step (say, BeamLoad) and make sure you define a step of Static, General. Click Continue and accept all the default settings. Click OK. f. For the output we want stresses, strains, displacements, and forces/reaction. Set this in Field Output request option of the model tree.