SIMULIA Abaqus offers a function called General Contact that will scan the model at each step, and automatically determine which faces may come into contact with each other as the analysis progresses. There’s also a usability difference in these situations – SOLIDWORKS Simulation requires explicit definition of contact pairs between faces that might come into contact, which means each potential interaction between two surfaces has to be defined as a feature. SIMULIA Abaqus has a more robust contact solver, which allows us to resolve these contact interactions more effectively, and has richer control over some of the contact interaction options.
Seasoned Simulation Premium users will be familiar with occasional warning messages that indicate that the software is struggling with convergence at each step.
From there, we’ll spend additional time verifying the accuracy of our assumptions, confirming we have a suitable mesh, and exploring design alternatives (and all the other due-diligence that is an important part of making sure you’ve got a realistic and accurate solution). With direct integration with SOLIDWORKS CAD, and an analysis system that makes smart decisions for you, we can often have an initial analysis case, and first-pass results done within minutes of starting.
Hawk Ridge Systems has recently launched special SIMULIA Abaqus pricing for existing SOLIDWORKS Simulation customers, and the most common question we hear is how to decide which tool is best for a given situation – so I thought I’d share the process we go through to select the appropriate tool to get an accurate result in the least amount of time when we’re working on applications for our analysis consulting customers.įor analysis situations that involve linear stress analysis, estimations of natural frequency, or linear dynamic responses to shock or vibration, we’ll normally solve the problem using one of the SOLIDWORKS Simulation packages. These options offer solutions to problems that are outside the capability of SOLIDWORKS Simulation, or that would be significantly more time consuming to solve using that tool.
Always evaluate the binaries against known results for the systems and properties you are investigating before using the binaries for production jobs.You may or may not be aware that Hawk Ridge Systems provides two types of stress analysis tool and technical service to companies we work with – the SOLIDWORKS Simulation range of stress analysis packages, which provide comprehensive stress analysis capabilities within the SOLIDWORKS CAD interface, and SIMULIA Abaqus, an incredibly powerful standalone analysis environment with a dizzying array of mesh, material, and analysis type options. PDC takes no responsibility for the correctness of results produced with the binaries. For more details, look at SIMULIA’s web page: Its elastomeric (rubberlike) material capabilities are particularly noteworthy.
Abaqus also provides a good collection of multiphysics capabilities, such as coupled acoustic-structural, piezoelectric, and structural-pore capabilities, making it attractive for production-level simulations where multiple fields need to be coupled.Ībaqus was initially designed to address non-linear physical behavior as a result, the package has an extensive range of material models. The product is popular with academic and research institutions due to the wide material modeling capability, and the program’s ability to be customized. Abaqus/CAE provides an integrated modelling (preprocessing) and visualization (postprocessing) environment for the analysis products.Ībaqus is used in the automotive, aerospace, and industrial product industries. Abaqus/Explicit uses an explicit integration scheme to solve highly nonlinear transient dynamic and quasi-static analyses. Abaqus/Standard is a general-purpose solver using a traditional implicit integration scheme to solve finite element analyses. The Abaqus product suite consists of three core products: Abaqus/Standard, Abaqus/Explicit and Abaqus/CAE. Abaqus is a commercial software package for finite element analysis.