ABAQUS Advanced use

Element and Node Sets Shear Locking in solid elements Reduced Integration and Zero Energy Modes Sign Convention Integration Schemes Shell Elements pitfalls to avoid Beam Elements General Suggestions

ABAQUS CAE - Modules

PART SKETCH ASSEMBLY PROPERTY Create part using Sketcher sketcher Creation of instances and assembly. Define Material, SECTION Properties and ASSIGNS it. STEP Analysis Steps INTERACTION Interaction Properties, Constraints. Contact between 2 surfaces, LOAD Loads, Boundary Conditions and Fields. MESH Choice of element JOB Creates Job, associates job with a MODEL VISUALIZATION Post processing

Sign Convention
Displacements and point loads are positive in the direction of the positive axes. Normal Stresses Tensile stress is +ve. Shear stress anticlockwise about element centre is +ve. Direct strains Tensile stress is +ve Soils consolidation W !W u

Stress Discontinuities

Stresses are calculated accurately at Gauss (Integration) points. Displacements are continuous across element boundaries. Stresses jump across element boundaries.

Shell Element - Normal

The direction of the +ve normal is defined by the nodal sequence and the Right hand rule. The section points are numbered in the direction of the +ve normal. The section points identify the sections.