ABAQUS
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ABAQUS is a commercial software package for finite element analysis.
ABAQUS is widely used in the automotive, aerospace, and industrial products industries. The package is also very popular with academic and research institutions due to the wide materials modeling capability and the program's ability to be customized.
The ABAQUS package consists of two analysis components: ABAQUS/Standard and ABAQUS/Explicit, which are the general purpose solver and dynamics solver respectively. ABAQUS/CAE and ABAQUS/Viewer form the pre- and post-processoring components. Both use the open-source scripting language Python for scripting and customization.
ABAQUS was initially designed to address non-linear physical behavior; as a result, the package has an extensive range of material models. Its elastomer (rubberlike) material capabilities are particulaly noteworthy.