This document introduces features in Abaqus that have been added, enhanced, or updated since the Abaqus 6.14 release.
Chapter 1 provides a brief overview of the Abaqus products included in this release. Chapters 2–15 provide short descriptions of new Abaqus 2016 features in Abaqus/Standard, Abaqus/Explicit, Abaqus/CFD, and Abaqus/CAE, categorized by subject:
Chapter 2, “General enhancements”: general changes to the Abaqus interface.
Chapter 3, “Modeling”: features related to creating your model.
Chapter 4, “Analysis procedures”: features related to defining an analysis.
Chapter 5, “Analysis techniques”: features related to analysis techniques in Abaqus.
Chapter 6, “Materials”: new material models or changes to existing material models.
Chapter 7, “Elements”: new elements or changes to existing elements.
Chapter 8, “Prescribed conditions”: loads, boundary conditions, and predefined fields.
Chapter 9, “Constraints”: kinematic constraints.
Chapter 10, “Interactions”: features related to contact and interaction modeling.
Chapter 11, “Meshing”: features related to meshing your model.
Chapter 12, “Execution”: commands and utilities for running any of the Abaqus products.
Chapter 13, “Output and visualization”: obtaining, postprocessing, and visualizing results from Abaqus analyses.
Chapter 14, “User subroutines, utilities, and plug-ins”: additional user programs that can be run with Abaqus.
Chapter 15, “Abaqus Scripting Interface”: using the Abaqus Scripting Interface to write user scripts.