This document introduces features in Abaqus that have been added, enhanced, or updated since the Abaqus 6.9 release. Chapter 1 provides a brief overview of the Abaqus products included in this release. Chapters 2–14 provide short descriptions of new Abaqus 6.9-EF 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, “Interactions”: features related to contact and interaction modeling.
Chapter 11, “Meshing”: features related to meshing your model.
Chapter 12, “Output and visualization”: obtaining, postprocessing, and visualizing results from Abaqus analyses.
Chapter 13, “User subroutines, utilities, and plug-ins”: additional user programs that can be run with Abaqus.
Chapter 14, “Abaqus Scripting Interface”: using the Abaqus Scripting Interface to write user scripts.