ABAQUS 6.6

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ABAQUS is a highly sophisticated, general purpose finite element program,

designed primarily to model the behavior of solids and structures under

externally applied loading. ABAQUS includes the following features:

 

Capabilities for both static and dynamic problems

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The ability to model very large shape changes in solids, in both two

and three dimensions

 

   A very extensive element library, including a full set of continuum elements,

 beam elements, shell and plate elements, among others.

 

   A sophisticated capability to model contact between solids

 

   An advanced material library, including the usual elastic and elastic –

plastic solids; models for foams, concrete, soils, piezoelectric materials,

and many others.

 

   Capabilities to model a number of phenomena of interest, including vibrations,

 coupled fluid/structure interactions, acoustics, buckling problems, and so on.

 

The main strength of ABAQUS, however, is that it is based on a very sound theoretical

framework As an practicing engineer, you may be called upon to make crucial decisions based

on the results of computer simulations. While no computer program can ever be guaranteed free

of bugs, ABAQUS is among the more trustworthy codes. Furthermore, as you will see if you consult

 the ABAQUS theory manual, HKS developers really understand continuum mechanics (since many

of them are Brown Ph.Ds, this goes without saying). For this reason, ABAQUS is used by a wide

range of industries, including aircraft manufacturers, automobile companies, oil companies and

microelectronics industries, as well as national laboratories and research universities

 

ABAQUS Software giving access to ABAQUS/STANDARD,ABAQUS/EXPLICIT,ABAQUS CAE -5 NOS.

 

For installation of software Please contact sys admin or mail to help@civil.iitb.ac.in

Faculty-in-charge:Prof Tarun Kant

                 :Prof S.Ghosh  

 

 

ABAQUS 6.6 Installation

1. Copy the installation cd to your harddisk. Lets say its in /home/abc/abaqus-setup

2. Goto the directory where you have copied the setup file

  cd /home/abc/abaqus-setup

3. Now you need to patch the install.bin file, for that use the following commands

4.        cd linux32 (or cd linux64 if using 64 bit version.)
5.        cd product/UNIX/Disk1/InstData/NoVM/
6.        mv install.bin install.bin.bak
7.        cat install.bin.bak | sed "s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#xport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/" > install.bin
  chmod +x install.bin

8. Go one directory above the setup directory, in this case goto /home/abc

  cd /home/abc

9. Start the setup by doing:

  ./abaqus-setup/setup

10.                    If a temporary directory is requested, enter '/tmp' as the directory. In case a java error is shown, you need to install java runtime environment on your computer. Download it from here http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

11.                    Java Runtime Env is present in the JVM folder. If its creating problems goto abaqus-setup/linux32/product/UNIX/Disk1/InstData/NoVM and run the install.bin present there.

12.                    During the installation, select Product as the type of installation. When it asks for a license server enter xx.xx.xx.xx (your license server ip) and for the documentation server enter http://xx.xx.xx.xx/v6.6

13.                    Give a directory where you want to install ABAQUS. Lets assume its /home/abc/ABAQUS

14.                    Once the installation is complete, you can run ABAQUS standard by running

15.   /home/abc/ABAQUS/Commands/abaqus
16.               
17. For ABAQUS CAE, issue the command
  /home/abc/ABAQUS/Commands/abaqus cae

18.                    If abaqus cae gives a gcc error, then goto Abaqus/6.6-1/External and delete the files libgcc_s.so and libgcc_s.so.1 like this:

  cd /home/abc/ABAQUS/6.6-1/External
19.   mv libgcc_s.so libgcc_s.so.bak
  mv libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1.bak

And again run abaqus.

20.                    Still if abaqus dosen't start then as a final resort then you can tell Abaqus to use its own libraries by setting the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH like this

  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/abc/Abaqus/6.6-1/External/mesa/full/"

21.                    If you get an error stating "X Error: code 155 major 143 minor 5:GLXBadContext" then try adding -mesa as an option to abaqus cae.

22.                    If your Abaqus window is transparent then use the command XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 before running abaqus cae. Eg "XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 abaqus cae"

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