This section provides a list of the most significant new capabilities and enhancements available in Abaqus 6.12; refer to the table of contents for a complete list of new features.

Performance improvements: 

• Batch preprocessing and initialization
• Substructure generation using AMS
• Multiple GPGPU cards

Associative import: 

• Transfer an assembly from CATIA V6 to Abaqus/CAE

Feature support in Abaqus/CAE: 

• Time harmonic electromagnetic analysis
• Coupled thermal-electrical-structural analysis
• Surface fluid cavities and fluid exchanges
• Base motion boundary conditions and PSD amplitudes
• Contact stabilization, feature edges, and contact initialization

New modeling options: 

• Parallel network viscoelastic material model
• Thick-walled pipe elements
• Rotordynamic load

Contact enhancements: 

• Feature edge contact in Abaqus/Standard
• Eulerian-Lagrangian thermal contact

Fluid analysis: 

• Implicit advection
• Non-Newtonian viscosity

Electromagnetic analysis: 

• Magnetostatic analysis
• Transient eddy current analysis
• Nonlinear magnetic behavior

Eulerian analysis: 

• Adaptive mesh refinement

General usability: 

• Maximum damage initiation output in shells
• Tie constraint deletion with element erosion

Abaqus/CAE usability: 

• Plot and probe selected model data in the Visualization module
• Session object persistence
• Create geometry from orphan elements
• Boundary layer meshing
• Combine orphan and native mesh features in a part
• Modify a mesh by dragging nodes
• View cut display

The remaining chapters in this book provide details on these and other new features of Abaqus 6.12. In addition to the enhancements listed here, most of the known bugs in Abaqus 6.11 are corrected.