ABAQUS

By
Dr. P.P.Dey
Associate Professor
Bengal Engineering & Science University,
Shibpur
Howrah
December 2012

Abaqus is a suite of powerful

engineering
simulation
programs
based on the finite element method,
sold by Dassault Systmes as part of
their
SIMULIA
Product
Life-cycle
Management (PLM) software tools.

Abaqus/CAE main window

Modul
e

STEPS INVOLVED IN ABAQUS

FOR MODELLING AND
SIMULATION OF THE ANALYSIS

In Abaqus/CAE, the whole modelling of the

extrusion process is divided into eight

modules.
Part
Property
Assembly
Step
Mesh
Interaction
Load
Job

Part Module (Sketch)

Under Part module, three axisymmetric parts in the
viewport are created by giving the coordinates in the
Part
promt area.
name

Part-2
Die
Part-1
Billet

Part-3 Reference

Saving and Defining Material

Properties

Under Property module, the material property is created.

In this analysis two material properties are created.

Metal

Rigid

The two material properties are assigned to these sections.

Three sections are created. The names are as follows:

Billet-section

Die-section

Ref-section

Assembling the Parts

Under Assembly module, in create instance the three

parts billet, die and reference node are assembled together

Step
Under Step module, four Steps are created,

procedure is coupled-temp-displacement.
Step-1: Stabilize the workpiece inside the die
Step-2: Extrusion
Step-3: Remove the contact pair
Step:4 Let the workpiece cool down

In step-1
Time period-1 sec
Incrementation type-Automatic
Max. no of increments-100
Max. Allowable temperature change

per increment :100 0 C

Solution technique is contact iteration

Create step
In step-2
Time period-1 sec
Incrementation type-Automatic
Max. no of iteration-800
Max. Allowable temperature change

per increment :100 0 C

Solution technique is contact iteration
In step-3

In step-4

Time period-0.1 sec

Time period-1000 sec

Incrementation type-Automatic

Incrementation type-Automatic

Max. no of increments-200

Max. no of increments-200

Max. Allowable temperature change

Max. Allowable temperature change

per increment :100 C

0

Solution technique is contact iteration

per increment :100 0 C

Solution technique is contact iteration

Interaction
Two surfaces are created.

Die Surface & Billet surface

Create
Surfac
e

Constraint is created.
Type- Rigid body
Reference point is selected.

Create
interaction
Create
interaction
properties

Interaction properties are created.

Name-FRIC-INTER
Type- Contact
Contact properties options are Tangential behavior
Normal behavior
Heat generation
Geometric properties
Two interactions are created. Names are INTER. Type- Surface-to-surface-contact, Created in
Initial step, propagated in step-1&2 and Inactive in
Step-3&4
FILM CONDITION. Created in Step-4

Seed Mesh
Under Mesh module, for each part the seed edges are done,

where the size and the number of seeds are given.

Seed
edge
s

Mesh
In Mesh module, meshing is done individually on each part.
Assign the Element type. Element type is Coupled-temp-

displacement-CAX4T.
Mesh Part

Mesh Part

Assign
Element
type

Creating Sets

For prescribing BC.

Three node sets are
created.
Axis
Top
REF

Load
Seven BCs are created.
BC-1. Created in Step-1 and propagated in Step-2,3 &4.
BC-2, BC-3, BC-4, BC-5 & BC-6.

Created in Step-1 and inactive

in remaining steps.
BC-7. Created in Step-2 and propagated in remaining steps.
In Predefined Field, in metal bar node set,
Temperature set is 200 C

In the 1st step,

At REF node set,
U=0, V=0, and UR3=0
At AXIS node set,
U=0
In TOP,
V= -0.000125
In REF (Picked up in viewport)
Uniform temperature-20o C
In the second step, At TOP
V= -0.25

Job
Job is created
Name is given
Type is full analysis

Create
job

Visualization
In visualization module, the result of the

analysis can be read.

Contour plots and graphs can be plotted in
visualization module.
Plot undeformed shape

Plot deformed
shape
Plot contours on
deformed shape