© Ihor Mirzov, February 2021
Distributed under GNU General Public License v3.0

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ABAQUS |
CALCULIX

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New Abaqus/CalculiX keywords

A tool to track new keywords in CalculiX and Abaqus releases. Abaqus keywords are taken from SIMULIA User Assistance. CalculiX keywords are extracted from the official PDF documentation.

ABAQUS

The reference version is 2016.

New keywords in ABAQUS 2017:

*ACTIVATE ELEMENTS
*CONSTITUENT
*CRUSH STRESS
*CRUSH STRESS VELOCITY FACTOR
*ELEMENT PROGRESSIVE ACTIVATION
*EVENT SERIES
*EVENT SERIES TYPE
*MEAN FIELD HOMOGENIZATION
*PARAMETER TABLE
*PARAMETER TABLE TYPE
*PROPERTY TABLE
*PROPERTY TABLE TYPE
*SOFT ROCK HARDENING
*SOFT ROCK PLASTICITY
*SUPERELASTIC
*SUPERELASTIC HARDENING
*SUPERELASTIC HARDENING MODIFICATIONS
*TABLE COLLECTION

New keywords in ABAQUS 2018:

*COMBINATORIAL RULE
*CONCENTRATION TENSOR
*ELEMENT RECOVERY MATRIX
*ELEMENT SOLUTION-DEPENDENT VARIABLES
*FATIGUE
*GLOBAL RESPONSE
*MATRIX EXPORT
*PARTICLE OUTLET
*PARTICLE OUTLET FLOW
*PIEZOELECTRIC DAMPING
*SCALE MASS
*SCALE STIFFNESS
*SCALE STRESS DESIGN
*SCALE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY
*SUBSTRUCTURE OUTPUT

New keywords in ABAQUS 2019:

*CONCRETE FAILURE
*MEAN FIELD DAMAGE
*TRANSVERSE SHEAR

New keywords in ABAQUS 2020:

*GAP CONVECTION
*IMPORT SURFACE
*UNIT SYSTEM

New keywords in ABAQUS 2021:

*EXTERNAL FIELD
*FIBER DISPERSION
*FIELD IMPORT
*FIELD MAPPER CONTROLS
*FIELD OPERATIONS
*ISOTROPIZATION PARAMETERS
*MANIFEST
*ONE-STEP INVERSE
*PLY FABRIC FAILURE
*PLY FABRIC HARDENING
*PORE FLUID PRESSURE
*SECTION CURVATURE
*SECTION TANGENT

CALCULIX

The reference version is 2.12.

New keywords in CALCULIX 2.13:

*GAP HEAT GENERATION
*NETWORK MPC
*USER ELEMENT

New keywords in CALCULIX 2.14:

*CONSTRAINT
*FILTER
*INITIAL STRAIN INCREASE
*MEMBRANE SECTION

New keywords in CALCULIX 2.15:

*BASE MOTION
*REFINE MESH

New keywords in CALCULIX 2.16:

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New keywords in CALCULIX 2.17:

*CORRELATION LENGTH
*DISTRIBUTION
*GEOMETRIC TOLERANCES
*ROBUST DESIGN