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Have you ever found yourself wondering which Abaqus element formulation is most suitable for your analysis? With the vast options provided within Abaqus Standard and Abaqus Explicit, novice and experienced users alike often find themselves asking this very question, and for good reason: selecting the appropriate element type with respect to your simulation objectives is

This installment of the “Debugging 101” series focuses on the final, and perhaps most important, file when it comes to understanding exactly what Abaqus is doing – the .msg or message file. We’ve already been through the typical things you should look for when debugging an Abaqus model, as well as the ins and outs

Fidelis Engineering Associates, a premier CAE consultancy specializing in product development and technology implementation, is proud to announce that we have formed a strategic partnership with Xitadel, a leading CAE technology and services provider based in India. This partnership leverages the core strengths of both companies and allows Fidelis and Xitadel to provide our customers

Fidelis is thrilled to announce that we have penned an official partnership with close friends and colleagues Forward Vision, allowing us to bring our customers a more comprehensive simulation offering. Also based in Troy, Michigan, Forward Vision is a leading provider of robotic and throughput simulation services as well as being an authorized Value Added

Welcome to another installment of our “Debugging 101” blog series aimed at helping CAE & FEA analysts more efficiently debug FEA models. Today’s post focuses on the .dat, or data, file from an Abaqus finite element analysis job. In previous articles, we’ve discussed where to start when trying to debug an Abaqus model as well

This post is part of our wider series of blogs that are focused on helping you, the analysts, to better understand and debug your Abaqus finite element (FEA) models. As you may have read in our previous post, there are a number of routes you can take when trying to find the root cause of

At Fidelis, we’re passionate about finite element analysis (FEA) for simulation. As analysts ourselves, we’re all too familiar with the despair and frustration that comes with developing ~what you think~ is a robust finite element model, only for it to self-terminate with errors. “What is going on?”, “Where did I go wrong?”, “Does this computer