Easy to use Abaqus tutorials to build your experience on Abaqus FEA Software
Abaqus Tutorial 1 Simple Bracket
Learn how to test and simulate a simple bracket in Abaqus.
Abaqus Tutorial 2 Basic Pin & Lug
Learn how to assemble a Pin/Lug and perform contact analysis
Abaqus Tutorial 3 Basic Beam Elements
Build a framework model using a 3D wireframe read in from a CAD system.
Abaqus Tutorial 4 I-Beam
Test some of the skills learnt during tutorials 1, 2 and 3.
Abaqus Tutorial 5 Plastic Deformation
Learn about simple plastic deformation with unloading.
Abaqus Tutorial 6 Crash Box
Use Abaqus Explicit to model Crash and Impact.
Abaqus Tutorial 7 Snap Fit
Use Abaqus Explicit for a Snap-Fit behaviour contact challenge.
Abaqus Tutorial 8: Bolts
build a pre-tensioned bolt model, helping with applying a bolt load
Abaqus Tutorial 9: Ball Plate Impact
Learn how to simulate the impact of a ball being fired at an aluminium plate.
Abaqus Tutorial 10: Composites
Learn how to modify a structural model of an aircraft wing to define the material properties and the stacking sequence of the laminated structures.
Abaqus Tutorial 11a: Ply Failure
Learn how to modify a structural model of a wing panel to define the material properties including the ply failure parameters.
Abaqus Tutorial 11b: Ply Failure
Learn how to modify a structural model of a stiffened panel to define the material properties including the ply failure parameters.
Abaqus Tutorial 12: VCCT
Learn how to model the failure of a bond with the Virtual Crack Closure Technique (VCCT).
Abaqus Tutorial 13: Cohesive Contact
Learn how to model the failure of a bond with a cohesive approach.
Abaqus Tutorial 14: Importing Implicit Into Explicit
This tutorial guides you through importing implicit into explicit and covers an example with a pre-tensioned bolt imported to a impact drop.
Abaqus Tutorial 15a: Ply Failure with XFEM
Learn how to modify a structural model of a stiffened panel to define the material properties including the ply failure parameters and create X-FEM domains.
This exercise is intended to show two useful Abaqus capabilities related to contact handling: geometric surface smoothing and contact stabilization.
Abaqus Tutorial 31: Snap Fit simulation: dynamic instabilities
This tutorial shows an example of how to deal with such dynamic instabilities by either introducing viscous stabilization or by solving the problem with a dynamic procedure.
Abaqus Tutorial 32: Tower fall: beam contact
This exercise involves the use of beam elements to model a tower falling. Contact with two objects on the floor will deform the tower.