Length: 4 days

Prerequisites: Intended for new Abaqus/CAE users. Some familiarity with interactive preprocessors is helpful but not required..

Description: Abaqus/CAE provides a complete interactive environment for creating Abaqus models, submitting and monitoring analysis jobs and viewing and manipulating simulation results. This course is intended to complement the Introduction to Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit course, which describes how to perform linear and nonlinear analyses with Abaqus.

Topics covered in this course:

1. Overview - Introduction to Abaqus-CAE
2. Introducing Abaqus-CAE
3. Working with Geometry in Abaqus/CAE
4. Working with Models Created Outside Abaqus
5. Material Properties and Assemblies
6. Steps, Interactions, and Loads
7. Meshing
8. Job Management and Results Visualization