This document introduces the new features in ABAQUS Version 6.5. Chapter 1 provides a brief overview of the ABAQUS products included in this release. Chapters 2–16 provide short descriptions of new Version 6.5 features in ABAQUS/Standard, ABAQUS/Explicit, and ABAQUS/CAE, categorized by subject:
Chapter 2, “General enhancements”: general changes to the ABAQUS interface.
Chapter 3, “Execution”: commands and utilities for running any of the ABAQUS products.
Chapter 4, “Modeling”: features related to creating your model, such as node and element definition in ABAQUS/Standard or ABAQUS/Explicit and part and assembly definition in ABAQUS/CAE.
Chapter 5, “Geometry import and repair”: features related to importing parts into ABAQUS/CAE and repairing problematic geometry.
Chapter 6, “Analysis procedures”: features related to defining an analysis.
Chapter 7, “Materials”: new material models or changes to existing material models.
Chapter 8, “Elements”: elements available in ABAQUS.
Chapter 9, “Prescribed conditions”: loads, boundary conditions, and fields.
Chapter 10, “Constraints”: kinematic constraints.
Chapter 11, “Interactions”: features related to contact and interaction modeling.
Chapter 12, “Engineering features”: engineering features related to part and assembly modeling.
Chapter 13, “Meshing”: features related to meshing your model.
Chapter 14, “User subroutines, utilities, and plug-ins”: additional user programs that can be run with ABAQUS.
Chapter 15, “Output and visualization”: obtaining, postprocessing, and visualizing results from ABAQUS analyses.
Chapter 16, “ABAQUS Scripting Interface”: using the ABAQUS Scripting Interface to write user scripts.