Adaptive meshing allows you to maintain a high-quality mesh throughout an analysis, even when large deformations or losses of material occur, by allowing the mesh to move independently of the material. Adaptive meshing moves only nodes; the mesh topology remains unchanged. Adaptive meshing is available only for Coupled temp-displacement; Dynamic, Explicit; Dynamic, Temp-disp, Explicit; Soils; and Static, General steps.

You can define regions of the model where you want adaptivity by selecting OtherAdaptive Mesh Domain from the main menu bar. If necessary, you can select OtherAdaptive Mesh Controls to customize the adaptivity controls. Currently, you can define only one adaptive mesh domain for any particular step.

For detailed information on adaptive meshing, see “Adaptive meshing,” Section 7.17 of the ABAQUS Analysis User's Manual.

For detailed instructions on defining adaptive mesh regions, see “Defining an adaptive mesh region,” Section 14.13.1, and “Specifying controls for adaptive remeshing,” Section 14.13.2.