This chapter discusses additional user programs that can be run with Abaqus. It provides an overview of the following enhancements:

• “Defining damage initiation criterion via user subroutine UDMGINI,” Section 14.1

• “Defining wave kinematics via user subroutine VWAVE,” Section 14.2

• “Prescribing nonuniform loads and boundary conditions in a time-harmonic eddy current analysis,” Section 14.3