This is the Benchmarks Manual for ABAQUS. It contains benchmark problems (including the NAFEMS suite of test problems) and standard analyses used to evaluate the performance of ABAQUS. The tests in this manual are multiple element tests of simple geometries or simplified versions of real problems.

In addition to the Benchmarks Manual there are two other manuals that contain worked problems. The ABAQUS Example Problems Manual contains many solved examples that test the code with the type of problems users are likely to solve. Many of these problems are quite difficult and test a combination of capabilities in the code. The ABAQUS Verification Manual contains a large number of examples that are intended as elementary verification of the basic modeling capabilities in ABAQUS.

The verification of ABAQUS consists of running the problems in the ABAQUS Example Problems Manual, the ABAQUS Benchmarks Manual, and the ABAQUS Verification Manual. Before a version of ABAQUS is released, it must run all verification, benchmark, and example problems correctly.

All input files referred to in the manuals are included with the ABAQUS release in compressed archive files. The ABAQUS/Fetch utility is used to extract these input files for use. For example, to fetch input file barrelvault_s8r5_reg22.inp, type

abaqus fetch job=barrelvault_s8r5_reg22.inp

Parametric study script (.psf) and user subroutine (.f) files can be fetched in the same manner. All files for a particular problem can be obtained by leaving off the file extension. The ABAQUS/Fetch execution procedure is explained in detail in “Execution procedure for ABAQUS/Fetch,” Section 3.2.12 of the ABAQUS Analysis User's Manual.

It is sometimes useful to search the input files. The findkeyword utility is used to locate input files that contain user-specified input. This utility is defined in “Execution procedure for querying the keyword/problem database,” Section 3.2.11 of the ABAQUS Analysis User's Manual.