Using Abaqus enabled Stadler Rail (a Swiss train building company) to confirm that the KISS railcar design successfully fulfilled all requirements of the European standards while optimizing weight and reducing product development times. This post is based on the Stadler Rail customer story written by Dassault...

Abaqus provides a wide range of user subroutines and utility routines, but what do we mean when we talk about user subroutines in Abaqus? An example can be seen above. Imagine you have a laminated composite plate in which damage occurs when subjected to in-plane compression. The...

There are different heat transfer and thermal analyses available that help you predict the behavior of your product during the development phase. In this blog post you will find a description of the different procedures to solve these simulations. Thermal simulations with Finite Element Analysis There are...

Mass scaling for Abaqus / Explicit Abaqus/Explicit analyses have the tendency to require long simulation times in order to complete. Mass scaling can speed up the simulation without sacrificing simulation accuracy. The explicit dynamics procedure is mainly used to solve two classes of problems: transient dynamic response...

This post explain how to download Abaqus for free and how to create an Academic passport on the 3DS Academy to have access to the training material. There is an Abaqus Student Edition that is available for personal and educational use free of charge to students, educators,...

This post provides an overview of the new key features of Simpack 2019 and the procedure to download/install the new Simpack 2019. Dassault Systemes released the SIMULIA 2019 products (Abaqus, Isight, Tosca, fe-safe, Simpack and XFlow). If you are interested in the key features of the...

This post provides an overview of the new key features of Tosca 2019 and the procedure to download/install the new Tosca 2019. Dassault Systemes released the SIMULIA 2019 products (Abaqus, Isight, Tosca, fe-safe, Simpack and XFlow). If you are interested in the key features of the...

Dassault Systemes released the SIMULIA 2019 products (Abaqus, Isight, Tosca, fe-safe, Simpack and XFlow). This post provides an overview of the new key features of fe-safe 2019 and the procedure to download/install the new fe-safe 2019. The key features of the other SIMULIA 2019 products can...