This section provides a list of the most significant new capabilities and enhancements available in Abaqus 6.14; refer to the table of contents for a complete list of new features.

General performance improvements: 

• GPGPU accelerated direct equation solver
• User control of domain decomposition
• addData method enhancements

Contact enhancements: 

• Edge-to-edge contact for general contact in Abaqus/Standard
• Improved contact at complex intersections in Abaqus/Explicit

Output: 

• Abaqus output database in SIM format for use in the Physics Results Explorer app on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

AMS eigensolver: 

• GPGPU acceleration performance improvements
• Constraint equation handling performance improvements
• Coupled structural-acoustic eigenmodes extraction

Materials: 

• Parallel rheological framework enhancements
• Local coordinate system for materials in Eulerian elements
• Use of anisotropic materials in Eulerian elements
• Initial conditions on damage initiation

Crack modeling and propagation: 

• XFEM enhancements

Fluid analysis: 

• k– realizable turbulence model
• Prescribed conditions for turbulence models

Co-simulation: 

• SIMULIA Co-Simulation Engine API general availability

Optimization: 

• Sizing optimization
• Optimization across multiple models
• Combining output database files
• New design responses

Abaqus/CAE geometry and modeling: 

• Bidirectional support for CATIA V6 Associative Interface
• Associate geometric faces with mesh
• Switch context for model instances

Visualization: 

• Display group operations on linked viewport
• Free body cut summation at area centroid
• X–Y data from free bodies defined on view cuts
• Free body reports from multiple frames

The remaining chapters in this book provide details on these and other new features of Abaqus 6.14. In addition to the enhancements listed here, most of the known bugs in Abaqus 6.13 are corrected.