

However, Abaqus offers more than just stress analysis.

Beyond metals, Abaqus can simulate rubber and polymers, reinforced concrete, glass and ceramics, crushable or resilient foam, and geotechnical materials like soils and rock. Abaqus has an equally extensive library of material models that can simulate stress and deformation in isotropic and anisotropic metals at low and high temperatures, at low and high strain rates, and at small and large strains. With an extensive library of element types, it can model nearly any geometry. Abaqus is truly a general-purpose finite element-based software package. Unless that software has been designed to exploit the true generality of the method, the analyst will become frustrated by the gap between the method's theoretical potential and the unnecessary limitations imposed by the software.

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) reaches the desk of the engineering analyst as a software package.
