Abaqus/Standard is a general-purpose finite-element solver whose technology is ideally suited for simulating true static and structural dynamic events. Abaqus/Standard applications include thermal-stress analysis, sealing evaluations, steady-state rolling simulation, fracture mechanics studies, heat transfer modeling, acoustics, pore pressure, etc. Abaqus/Standard has powerful linear dynamics capabilities including the AMS eigensolver which can efficiently find a large number of natural frequencies for models with a large number of degrees of freedom. Abaqus/Standard has a large library of element types for use in the wide range of its applications. It also has an extensive library of material models ranging from linear elasticity to rate-dependent kinematic plasticity to continuum damage. Users can customize and extend Abaqus/Standard through the coding of subroutines for material models, elements, loads, and boundary conditions. Abaqus/Standard is supported within the Abaqus/CAE modeling environment for all common pre- and post-processing needs.
Abaqus/Standard may be coupled with Abaqus/Explicit. A simulation that starts in Abaqus/Explicit can be continued in Abaqus/Standard and vice versa. This import functionality fallows Abaqus/Standard to be applied to those portions of the analysis that are well-suited to an implicit solution technique while Abaqus/Explicit may be applied to those portions of the analysis where high-speed, nonlinear, transient response dominates the solution.
Abaqus/Standard analysis types include:
Nonlinear static and dynamic stress analysis
Linear dynamics which includes a highly efficient AMS eigensolver
Heat transfer