Trademarks and Legal Notices

CAUTIONARY NOTICE TO USERS:

This manual is intended for qualified users who will exercise sound engineering judgment and expertise in the use of the ABAQUS Software. The ABAQUS Software is inherently complex, and the examples and procedures in this manual are not intended to be exhaustive or to apply to any particular situation. Users are cautioned to satisfy themselves as to the accuracy and results of their analyses.

ABAQUS, Inc. will not be responsible for the accuracy or usefulness of any analysis performed using the ABAQUS Software or the procedures, examples, or explanations in this manual. ABAQUS, Inc. shall not be responsible for the consequences of any errors or omissions that may appear in this manual.

ABAQUS, INC. DISCLAIMS ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS MANUAL.

IN NO EVENT SHALL ABAQUS, INC. OR ITS THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION) EVEN IF ABAQUS, INC. HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

The ABAQUS Software described in this manual is available only under license from ABAQUS, Inc. and may be used or reproduced only in accordance with the terms of such license.

This manual and the software described in this manual are subject to change without prior notice.

No part of this manual may be reproduced or distributed in any form without prior written permission of ABAQUS, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America.

U.S. GOVERNMENT USERS: The ABAQUS Software and its documentation are “commercial items,” specifically “commercial computer software” and “commercial computer software documentation” and, consistent with FAR 12.212 and DFARS 227.7202, as applicable, are provided with restricted rights in accordance with license terms.

TRADEMARK AND LICENSE NOTICES

The following are trademarks or registered trademarks of ABAQUS, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries: ABAQUS, ABAQUS/Standard, ABAQUS/Explicit, ABAQUS/CAE, ABAQUS/Viewer, ABAQUS/Aqua, ABAQUS/Design, ABAQUS/Foundation, ABAQUS/AMS, ABAQUS for CATIA V5, VCCT for ABAQUS, DDAM for ABAQUS, Unified FEA, and the ABAQUS Logo. The 3DS logo and SIMULIA are trademarks of Dassault Systèmes.

The ABAQUS Software and its documentation includes processes under U.S. Patents 5,920,491 and 6,044,210. ABAQUS, Inc. may also have other patents or pending patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights covering ABAQUS Software and/or its documentation. No license of such patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights is provided or implied except as may be expressly provided in a written license agreement from ABAQUS, Inc.

ADAMS/Flex, ADAMS/View, MSC.ADAMS, and MSC.Patran are trademarks or registered trademarks of MSC.Software Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries.

Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc.

CADKEY is a registered trademark of CADKEY Corporation.

CATIA is a registered trademark of Dassault Systèmes.

Compaq is a registered trademark of Compaq Computer Corporation.

FEMAP, I-DEAS, Parasolid, Solid Edge, and Unigraphics are registered trademarks of UGS PLM Solutions Inc.

FE-SAFE is a trademark of Safe Technology, Ltd.

FLEXnet and FLEXlm are registered trademarks of Macrovision Corporation.

FLUENT is a registered trademark of Fluent Inc.

Hewlett-Packard, HP-GL, HP-GL/2, and HP-UX are registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company.

IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.

Intel and Itanium are registered trademarks of the Intel Corporation.

Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

MOLDFLOW, MOLDFLOW PLASTICS INSIGHT, and MPI are trademarks or registered trademarks of Moldflow Pty. Ltd. or Moldflow Corporation and its worldwide subsidiaries.

MpCCI is a trademark of Fraunhofer Institute SCAI.

NASTRAN is a registered trademark of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

PAM-CRASH is a registered trademark of Pam System International.

PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Incorporated.

Pro/ENGINEER is a registered trademark of Parametric Technology Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and in other countries.

Silicon Graphics and OpenGL are registered trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc.

SolidDesigner is a registered trademark of Hewlett-Packard Company.

SolidWorks is a registered trademark of SolidWorks Corporation.

SpaceBall is a registered trademark of Logitech International S.A.

SUN MICROSYSTEMS is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society.

UNIX is a registered trademark licensed exclusively through X/Open Company.

Webinator is a registered trademark of Thunderstone Software LLC.

Windows and Visual C++ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

This release of ABAQUS/CAE includes lp_solve, a simplex-based code for linear and integer programming problems by Michel Berkelaar of Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

OPEN SOURCE PROGRAMS

This release of ABAQUS uses several open source or free programs (“OS Programs”). Each such program is distributed with ABAQUS software in binary form and, except as permitted by the applicable license, without modification. Each such program is available online for free downloading and, if required by the applicable OS Program license, the source code will be made available by ABAQUS upon request. For a complete list of OS Programs utilized by ABAQUS, as well as licensing documentation for these programs, see http://www.abaqus.com/products/products_legal.html.

HP-MPI LICENSE TERMS

HP-MPI is included with this release of ABAQUS software. HP-MPI is an implementation from Hewlett-Packard Company (“HP”) of the Message Passing Interface standard that may be used for parallel execution of ABAQUS/Standard and ABAQUS/Explicit. HP-MPI is the property of HP and is not an ABAQUS Program. Under a license from HP to ABAQUS, Inc., HP-MPI is made available to licensed ABAQUS users at no additional charge.

You are a licensed ABAQUS user if you are authorized to use ABAQUS software under a software license agreement between ABAQUS and the business or academic entity with which you are associated. If you are a licensed ABAQUS user, you may obtain HP-MPI under a license directly from HP, or you may proceed as described in the Installation Instructions for ABAQUS Programs without entering into a separate license with HP. If you choose to install HP-MPI as made available by ABAQUS, Inc., use and reproduction of HP-MPI by your business or academic entity will be subject to the same restrictions as are in the license agreement with your business or academic entity that govern the use of ABAQUS software and will be terminable by ABAQUS, Inc. on the same conditions as are in the ABAQUS software license agreement. However, HP-MPI is NOT an ABAQUS Program and is NOT warranted or supported by ABAQUS. Without limiting the foregoing:

HP-MPI IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. ABAQUS AND HP SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT OR OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT SHALL ABAQUS OR HP BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGE (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION) ARISING FROM USE OR ATTEMPTED USE OF HP-MPI, EVEN IF ABAQUS OR HP HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.