In April's upcoming webinar, we will look at the topics related to analysing and assessing Bolted Joints using Abaqus FEA.

Assessments of bolted joints can be performed for a number of reasons. Before starting any FE modelling of bolted joints it is important that the analyst considers the purpose of the analysis and plans it. A summary of typical aspects which should be considered during the planning will be covered.

Part 1: Manual weld definition

Welding is a process that joins materials by causing fusion: the base metal is melted and typically a filler material is added to form a pool of molten material. When simulating the welding process in order to assess the structural behavior of a welded joint, there are two main challenges when setting up the model:

• Thermal and structural behavior needs to be coupled to each other
• Material needs to be added during the welding process. This also changes the boundaries and thus the location of the boundary conditions.

Simuleon has developed a brand new and free half-day workshop, called "Introduction to XFlow CFD".

Our classroom style workshop will be held in English language at our new office location in Zaltbommel, the Netherlands. This is the ideal way to understand and try-out, what advanced CFD simulation, with SIMULIA XFlow CFD can offer.

It’s one of those special times of the year again: an extra day off, a good reason to eat (additional) chocolate, perhaps a visit to the family and … a chance to set up an analysis in a different manner than I normally would.

In March's upcoming webinar, we will cover topics related to achieving a good quality mesh using the tools available in Abaqus CAE. Achieving a mesh of the required quality is a fundamental requirement to successful Finite Element Analysis. 

The “Introduction to Non-Linear Analysis Workshop” on the 30th of March is a free event for anyone who has some experience of simulation and FEA, but would like to look at extending the scope of the work they do. This workshop is an ideal way to understand what advanced simulation and SIMULIA Abaqus can offer, and find out how easy it actually is to perform a real world non-linear analysis.

Learning a new language can be fun and it is not as difficult as you may think. Language-learning is a gateway to new experience. It is true for any language and especially for a programming language. With our new online training course, we will guide you through your new challenge: learning Python and the Abaqus Scripting Interface.

In this post we will be showing an exemplary analysis with Abaqus Standard. This analysis will incorporate a coupled thermal-stress problem of  a cylindrical shell (e.g. a pipe enclosing a high temperature fluid used in a factory). This pipe will be connected to a metallic expansion joint that will have the purpose of undertaking the thermal extension of the pipe. The purpose of the coupled analysis will be to demonstrate the mapping of result values via the predefined field option.

While Abaqus is used most for mechanical analysis, there are other options as well. Thermal analysis is one of the possibilities. In this blog, I will show how to set up such a thermal analysis using Abaqus.

Abaqus 2018 is now available. In this blog I'll list the most significant new features and enhancements, and explain how to obtain and install Abaqus 2018.