Product: ABAQUS/Standard
Benefits: Overlay can be used to write restart frames without the fear of losing existing frames due to a system failure.
Description: A reserve frame is maintained by ABAQUS/Standard when one or more restart files are written using the overlay option. It is now extremely unlikely that a system failure during the analysis can corrupt a restart frame that has been already written. This capability particularly benefits users who wish to run large analyses that take a long time to run. This enhancement is employed automatically; there is no need for any change to existing input files.
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