This document introduces features in Abaqus that have been added, enhanced, or updated since the Abaqus 6.8 release. Some of these features were first available in the Abaqus 6.8 Extended Functionality release; refer to the Abaqus 6.8 Extended Functionality Release Notes for a complete listing of these features. The remaining features are new in Abaqus 6.9.
Chapter 1 provides a brief overview of the Abaqus products included in this release. Chapters 2–15 provide short descriptions of new Abaqus 6.9 features in Abaqus/Standard, Abaqus/Explicit, and Abaqus/CAE, categorized by subject:
Chapter 2, “General enhancements”: general changes to the Abaqus interface.
Chapter 3, “Execution”: commands and utilities for running any of the Abaqus products.
Chapter 4, “Modeling”: features related to creating your model, such as node and element definition in Abaqus/Standard or Abaqus/Explicit and part and assembly definition in Abaqus/CAE.
Chapter 5, “Model import and export”: features related to importing and exporting parts, assemblies, and models to or from Abaqus/CAE.
Chapter 6, “Analysis procedures”: features related to defining an analysis.
Chapter 7, “Materials”: new material models or changes to existing material models.
Chapter 8, “Elements”: new elements or changes to existing elements.
Chapter 9, “Prescribed conditions”: loads, boundary conditions, and predefined fields.
Chapter 10, “Constraints”: kinematic constraints.
Chapter 11, “Interactions”: features related to contact and interaction modeling.
Chapter 12, “Meshing”: features related to meshing your model.
Chapter 13, “User subroutines, utilities, and plug-ins”: additional user programs that can be run with Abaqus.
Chapter 14, “Output and visualization”: obtaining, postprocessing, and visualizing results from Abaqus analyses.
Chapter 15, “Abaqus Scripting Interface”: using the Abaqus Scripting Interface to write user scripts.