Abaqus Tutorial & Courses

• Start with your education in the specific field of Mechanics/ physics you want to simulate.
• Engage in FEA basic courses such as the above Abaqus tutorials.
• Study modeling techniques rather than merely learning software.
• Recognize how your mechanical problem behaves.
• Always strive to comprehend anything thoroughly.
• Begin with simple problems.
• Practice often and intensify your efforts.
• Attend FEA courses (For example, Abaqus trainings)
• Study your peers’ work.
• Be patient; becoming a specialist takes time.

How Can we help as CAE assistants?

If we want to categorize the educational content available on the CAEassistant site about the Abaqus software, we can say that the following items are covered on this site in various Abaqus tutorials:

1-Analysis Procedures, Solution, and Control:

• Static stress-displacement analysis, 
• Dynamic stress-displacement analysis,
• Steady-state transport analysis, 
• Heat transfer and thermal stress analysis, 
• Fluid dynamic analysis,
• Coupled pore fluid flow and stress analysis,
• Mass diffusion analysis,
• Acoustic and shock analysis,
• Abaqus/Aqua analysis,
• Electromagnetic analysis,
• Annealing,

2- Analysis Techniques

• Adaptivity Techniques
• Particle Methods
• Analysis Continuation Techniques
• Modeling Abstractions
• Special-Purpose Techniques
• Optimization Techniques
• Eulerian Analysis
• Sequentially Coupled Multiphysics Analyses
• Extending Abaqus Analysis Functionality
• Co-simulation
• Design Sensitivity Analysis
• Parametric Studies

3- Materials

• “Elastic Mechanical Properties”
• “Inelastic Mechanical Properties”
• “Progressive Damage and Failure”
• “Hydrodynamic Properties”

Abaqus tutorial for beginners

In the above topics, we have some Abaqus tutorial packages, and you can get them from the CAEassistant shop.

What training courses have published CAEassistant about composite material?

In comparison to metals, composites’ damage mechanisms are less well known. Composite materials and structures are susceptible to defects, whether they appear during material processing, component fabrication, or in-service use. Understanding how the damage or defect affects the structural integrity of the composite component is crucial to determining how critical the defect is. If we can somehow determine these damages and tend to them in time, the maintenance cost would be severely decreased. Also, our design will be better and well-optimized.

The composite damages can be classified into two levels:

4.1. Composite damage during manufacturing

Anomalies caused by processing errors like porosity, microcracking, and delaminations are examples of manufacturing damage. Inadvertent edge cuts, scratches, surface gouges, impact damage, and damaged fastener holes are also included. Manufacturing flaws consist of:

• Voids
• Air bubbles
• Delamination
• Resin starved areas
• Resin rich areas
• Wrinkles
• …

4.2. In-service damage of composites

It’s true that the composite structures have sufficient strength and stiffness, but like other structures, they may get damaged during the service. The damages could be caused by impact, low resistance to the service environment, overloading, Staff carelessness, etc.

In-service damages include:

• Impact damage
• Fatigue
• Cracks
• Delamination
• Fiber fracturing
• …

Until now, you’ve learned so much about composite materials. You’ve learned “what is a composite material?”, “why we need them?”, advantages and disadvantages of composites, classification of composites, and damages in composites. Now, we’re ready to talk about how to model and analyze these magnificent structures in the Abaqus software.

• First, we talk about how to model a composite in the Abaqus, how to create parts, apply material properties, etc.
• Second, we talk about how to simulate damage in composites, damage initiation point, progressive damage, and the most important damage theories such as HASHIN criterion, Tsai-Wu, Tsai-Hill, Puck criterion, etc.
• Third, fatigue in composites.
• And finally, we’ll see some practical examples and simulations of composite structures in the Abaqus.

If you’re interested as we do and want to learn how to do your projects with the FEM method, let’s get right to it and see how to model composite materials in the Abaqus. See the article “All about composite material analysis” to get more details about composite courses.