A.2 Keyword support from the input file reader
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To see keywords beginning with a particular letter of the alphabet, click that letter in the table below.
*ADAPTIVE MESHCONTROLS, ELSET, FREQUENCY, INITIAL MESH SWEEPS, MESH SWEEPS, OP
*ADAPTIVE MESH CONTROLSADVECTION, CURVATURE REFINEMENT, GEOMETRIC ENHANCEMENT, INITIAL FEATURE ANGLE, MESH CONSTRAINT ANGLE, MESHING PREDICTOR, MOMENTUM ADVECTION, NAME, RESET, SMOOTHING OBJECTIVE, TRANSITION FEATURE ANGLE
*AMPLITUDEBEGIN, DEFINITION (All values except: BUBBLE ), FIXED INTERVAL, NAME, SMOOTH, TIME
*BEAM GENERAL SECTIONDENSITY, ELSET, DEPENDENCIES, POISSON, SECTION (All values except: NONLINEAR GENERAL MESHED ), ZERO
*BEAM SECTIONDENSITY, ELSET, MATERIAL, POISSON, SECTION (All values except: ELBOW MESHED ), TEMPERATURE, ZERO
*BOUNDARYAMPLITUDE, FIXED, INC, OP, SUBMODEL, STEP, TYPE
*CFILMAMPLITUDE, FILM AMPLITUDE, OP, REGION TYPE, USER
*CLEARANCECPSET, MASTER, SLAVE, TABULAR (This parameter is supported only when used with the BOLT parameter.), VALUE, BOLT
*CLOADAMPLITUDE, FOLLOWER, OP, LOAD CASE
*CONNECTOR DAMPINGCOMPONENT, COUPLED, DEPENDENCIES, ELSET, INDEPENDENT COMPONENTS, NONLINEAR
*CONNECTOR ELASTICITYCOMPONENT, COUPLED, DEPENDENCIES, ELSET, INDEPENDENT COMPONENTS, MOTION DEPENDENCIES, NONLINEAR, RIGID
*CONNECTOR FRICTIONCOMPONENT, CONTACT FORCE, DEPENDENCIES, INDEPENDENT COMPONENTS, PREDEFINED, STICK STIFFNESS
*CONTACT CONTROLSABSOLUTE PENETRATION TOLERANCE, APPROACH, AUTOMATIC TOLERANCES, CPSET, FASTLOCALTRK, FRICTION ONSET, GLOBTRKINC, LAGRANGE MULTIPLIER, MAXCHP, MASTER, PERRMX, RELATIVE PENETRATION TOLERANCE, RESET, SCALE PENALTY, SLIDE DISTANCE, SLAVE, STABILIZE, STIFFNESS SCALE FACTOR, TANGENT FRACTION, WARP CHECK PERIOD, WARP CUT OFF (This option is supported for ABAQUS/Explicit only; only one definition per step is supported.)
*CONTACT PAIRINTERACTION, ADJUST, SMALL SLIDING, TIED, CPSET, OP, HCRIT, MECHANICAL CONSTRAINT, NO THICKNESS, SMOOTH, TYPE, WEIGHT
*CONTOUR INTEGRALCONTOURS, CRACK NAME, CRACK TIP NODES, DIRECTION, FREQUENCY, NORMAL, OUTPUT, SYMM, TYPE
*COUPLINGCONSTRAINT NAME, REF NODE, SURFACE, INFLUENCE RADIUS, ORIENTATION
*DAMAGE EVOLUTIONTYPE, DEGRADATION, DEPENDENCIES, MIXED MODE BEHAVIOR, MODE MIX RATIO, POWER, SOFTENING
*DAMAGE INITIATIONCRITERION, DEFINITION, DEPENDENCIES, FEQ, FNN, FNT, FREQUENCY, KS, NUMBER IMPERFECTIONS, ALPHA, OMEGA
*DLOADAMPLITUDE, CONSTANT RESULTANT, FOLLOWER, OP, ORIENTATION, LOAD CASE
*DSLOADAMPLITUDE, CONSTANT RESULTANT, FOLLOWER, OP, ORIENTATION, REF NODE
*DYNAMICADIABATIC, ALPHA, HAFTOL, DIRECT USER CONTROL, ELEMENT BY ELEMENT, EXPLICIT, FIXED TIME INCREMENTATION, INITIAL, NOHAF, SCALE FACTOR, SUBSPACE, VECTORS
*ELASTICDEPENDENCIES, MODULI, TYPE (All values except: SHORT FIBER )
*ELSETELSET, GENERATE, INSTANCE, INTERNAL, TYPE
*EMBEDDED ELEMENTABSOLUTE EXTERIOR TOLERANCE, EXTERIOR TOLERANCE, HOST ELSET, ROUNDOFF TOLERANCE
*EQUATION: (No parameters. This option is supported if the data lines contain only node sets; the use of node labels for this option is not yet supported in ABAQUS/CAE. In addition, the second node set (the fourth data item) can contain only a single node.)
*EXPANSIONDEPENDENCIES, PORE FLUID, TYPE (All values except: SHORT FIBER ), USER, ZERO
*FILMAMPLITUDE, FILM AMPLITUDE, OP
*FREQUENCYACOUSTIC COUPLING, BIAS, EIGENSOLVER, NSET, NORMALIZATION, NUMBER INTERVAL, PROPERTY EVALUATION, RESIDUAL MODES, USER BOUNDARIES
*FRICTIONANISOTROPIC, DEPENDENCIES, DEPVAR, ELASTIC SLIP, EXPONENTIAL DECAY, LAGRANGE, PROPERTIES, ROUGH, SHEAR TRACTION SLOPE, SLIP TOLERANCE, TAUMAX, TEST DATA, USER
*GASKET SECTIONBEHAVIOR, ELSET, MATERIAL, ORIENTATION, STABILIZATION STIFFNESS
*HYPERELASTICARRUDA-BOYCE, BETA, MARLOW, MOONEY-RIVLIN, MODULI, N, NEO HOOKE, OGDEN, POISSON, POLYNOMIAL, PROPERTIES, REDUCED POLYNOMIAL, TEST DATA INPUT, TYPE, USER, VAN DER WAALS, YEOH
*INITIAL CONDITIONSFILE, INC, MIDSIDE, STEP, TYPE (All values except: ACOUSTIC STATIC PRESSURE CONCENTRATION CONTACT FIELD FLUID PRESSURE HARDENING MASS FLOW RATE NONAXI OLD MESH PORE PRESSURE PRESSURE STRESS RATIO RELATIVE DENSITY SATURATION SOLUTION SPECIFIC ENERGY SPUD EMBEDMENT SPUD PRELOAD STRESS SPECIFIC ENERGY )
*MASSELSET, ALPHA, COMPOSITE
*MEMBRANE SECTIONCONTROLS, ELSET, MATERIAL, ORIENTATION, POISSON (All values except: MATERIAL )
*NCOPYCHANGE NUMBER, OLD SET, NEW SET, POLE, REFLECT, SHIFT, MULTIPLE
*NFILLBIAS, NSET, SINGULAR, TWO STEP
*NSETGENERATE, INSTANCE, INTERNAL, NSET, TYPE
*ORIENTATIONDEFINITION (All values except: OFFSET TO NODES ), SYSTEM, NAME
*ORNLA, H, MATERIAL, RESET
*OUTPUTFIELD, FILTER, FREQUENCY, HISTORY, MODE LIST, NUMBER INTERVAL, OP, TIME INTERVAL, TIME MARKS, TIME POINTS, VARIABLE
*PLASTICDATA TYPE, DEPENDENCIES, HARDENING, PROPERTIES, RATE
*PREPRINTCONTACT, ECHO, HISTORY, MODEL, PARSUBSTITUTION, PARVALUES
*PRINTALLKE, CONTACT, CRITICAL ELEMENT, DMASS, ETOTAL, FREQUENCY, PLASTICITY, RESIDUAL, SOLVE
*RESTARTWRITE, FREQUENCY, OVERLAY, NUMBER INTERVAL, TIME MARKS
*RIGID BODYANALYTICAL SURFACE, ELSET, ISOTHERMAL, REF NODE, POSITION, TIE NSET, PIN NSET
*SECTION CONTROLSDISTORTION CONTROL, ELEMENT DELETION, HOURGLASS, KINEMATIC SPLIT, LENGTH RATIO, MAX DEGRADATION, NAME, SECOND ORDER ACCURACY, VISCOSITY, WEIGHT FACTOR
*SFILMAMPLITUDE, FILM AMPLITUDE, OP
*SHELL GENERAL SECTIONCOMPOSITE, CONTROLS, ELSET, MATERIAL, OFFSET, ORIENTATION, POISSON, STACK DIRECTION, THICKNESS MODULUS
*SHELL SECTIONCOMPOSITE, CONTROLS, ELSET, MATERIAL, OFFSET, ORIENTATION, POISSON (All values except: ELASTIC MATERIAL ), SECTION INTEGRATION, STACK DIRECTION, TEMPERATURE, THICKNESS MODULUS
*SOILSCETOL, CONSOLIDATION, END, FACTOR, NO CREEP, UTOL, STABILIZE
*STATICADIABATIC, DIRECT, FACTOR, FULLY PLASTIC, LONG TERM, RIKS, STABILIZE
*STEADY STATE DYNAMICSDIRECT, SUBSPACE PROJECTION, FREQUENCY SCALE, INTERVAL, REAL ONLY, DAMPING CHANGE, STIFFNESS CHANGE
*STEPAMPLITUDE, CONVERT SDI, EXTRAPOLATION, INC, NLGEOM, PERTURBATION, SOLVER, UNSYMM, NAME
*SURFACECOMBINE, CROP, FILLET RADIUS, GENERATE, INTERNAL, NAME, REF NODE, TYPE (All values except: USER BSPLINE )
*TEMPERATUREABSOLUTE EXTERIOR TOLERANCE, AMPLITUDE, BINC, BSTEP, EINC, ESTEP, EXTERIOR TOLERANCE, FILE, INPUT, INTERPOLATE, MIDSIDE, OP, USER
*TIEADJUST, NAME, NO ROTATION, NO THICKNESS, POSITION TOLERANCE, CONSTRAINT RATIO, TYPE
*VARIABLE MASS SCALINGCROSS SECTION NODES, DIRECTION, DT, ELSET, EXTRUDED LENGTH, FEED RATE, FREQUENCY, TYPE, NUMBER INTERVAL
*VISCOCETOL, EXPLICIT, FACTOR, STABILIZE, CREEP